7th Meeting of the Urban Economics Association
At the 59th Annual North American Meetings
of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI)
November 7-10, 2012
Ottawa, Canada
Programme Committee: Matthew A. Turner (Toronto), Jan K. Brueckner (UC Irvine) and Maria M. Ferreyra (Carnegie Mellon).
Conference Program
01A. Thu 8:00-10:00. Agglomeration 1 (Governor General I)
Chair: Tomoya Mori
- Gabriel Ahlfeldt, Stephen Redding*, Daniel Sturm, Nikolaus Wolf
The Economics of Density: Evidence from the Berlin Wall
Discussant: Takatoshi Tabuchi
- Takatoshi Tabuchi*
Are NEG Models Capable of Simulating Agglomeration in the Real World?
Discussant: Jeffrey Brinkman
- Jeffrey Brinkman*
Transportation Technologies, Agglomeration, and the Structure of Cities
Discussant: Tomoya Mori
- Tomoya Mori*, Tony E. Smith
A spatial approach to identifying agglomeration determinants
Discussant: Stephen Redding
01B. Thu 8:00-10:00. Policy Impacts (Governor General II)
Chair: Leo Feler
- Jeffrey Zax*, Veronika Furst
The effects of state fair housing laws on metropolitan segregation
Discussant: Peter Ganong
- Peter Ganong*, Robert Collinson
Incidence and Search: Evidence from Housing Vouchers
Discussant: Jing Li
- Jing Li*
The Influence of State Policy and Proximity to Medical Services on Health Outcomes
Discussant: Leo Feler
- Leo Feler*, Nicholas Coleman
Bank Ownership, Lending, and Local Economic Performance During the 2008-2010 Financial Crisis
Discussant: Jeffrey Zax
01C. Thu 8:00-10:00. Behavior of Housing Markets (Governor General III)
Chair: William Strange
- Edward Kung*
Alternative Mortgages in an Equilibrium Model of Housing and Mortgage Markets
Discussant: Elliot Anenberg
- Elliot Anenberg*, Pat Bayer
Endogenous Sources of Cycling in Housing Markets: The Joint Buyer-Seller Problem
Discussant: Gabriel Ehrlich
- Gabriel Ehrlich*
Price and Time to Sale Dynamics in the Housing Market: the Role of Incomplete Information
Discussant: William Strange
- Lu Han, William Strange*
What is the Role of the Asking Price for a House?
Discussant: Edward Kung
01D. Thu 8:00-10:00. Topics in Urban Economics (Provinces I)
Chair: Brian Adams
- Paul Cheshire, Elias Einio, Christian Hilber*
The Price We Pay for Town Centres First: Further evidence from a UK clothing retailer
Discussant: Elena Irwin
- Douglas Wrenn, Elena Irwin*
Time Is Money: An Empirical Examination of the Dynamic Effects of Regulatory Uncertainty on Residential Subdivision Development
Discussant: Paul Cheshire
- Paul Cheshire*, Gerard Dericks
Regulation, Rents and ‘Iconic Design’: estimates of the value of trophy architects in the tightly constrained London office market
Discussant: Brian Adams
- Brian Adams*
Migration and Agglomeration Among Motor Vehicle Parts Suppliers
Discussant: Christian Hilber
02A. Thu 13:30-15:30. Knowledge Spillovers (Governor General I)
Chair: Max Nathan
- Stephen Billings*, Erik Johnson
Localization and Co-Localization within an Urban Area
Discussant: Yasusada Murata
- Yasusada Murata*, Ryo Nakajima, Ryosuke Okamoto, Ryuichi Tamura
Localized knowledge spillovers and patent citations: A distance-based approach
Discussant: Henry Overman
- Christian Helmers, Henry Overman*
My precious! The location and diffusion of scientific research: evidence from the Synchrotron Diamond Light Source
Discussant: Max Nathan
- Riccardo Crescenzi, Max Nathan*, Andrés Rodríguez-Pose
Do inventors talk to strangers? How spatial, social, institutional and ethnic proximity shapes collaborative knowledge creation
Discussant: Stephen Billings
02B. Thu 13:30-15:30. Congestion (Governor General II)
Chair: Matthew Turner
- Chunying Xie*
Dynamic Congestion Pricing and the Split-Second Consumer Decision to Enter a Toll Lane
Discussant: Sergejs Gubins
- Sergejs Gubins*, Erik T. Verhoef
Bottleneck congestion in a monocentric city
Discussant: Marcus Berliant
- Marcus Berliant*
Daily Commuting Without Queueing
Discussant: Matthew Turner
- Matthew Turner*, Victor Couture, Gilles Duranton
Speed
Discussant: Chunying Xie
02C. Thu 13:30-15:30. Urban Land Use (Governor General III)
Chair: Jan Brueckner
- Tatsuhito Kono*, Kirti Kusum Joshi
Simultaneous Optimization of Building Size, Lot Size and Zonal Boundaries
Discussant: James Siodla
- James Siodla*
Razing San Francisco: The 1906 Disaster as a Natural Experiment in Understanding Urban Land Use
Discussant: Wendong Zhang
- Wendong Zhang*, Douglas Wrenn, Elena G. Irwin
Tests of the urban economic model using a new measure of leapfrog development
Discussant: Jan Brueckner
- Jan Brueckner*, Kala Sridhar
Welfare Gains from Relaxation of Land-Use Restrictions: The Case of India's Building-Height Limits
Discussant: Tatsuhito Kono
02D. Thu 13:30-15:30. Theory (Provinces I)
Chair: Maximilian von Ehrlich
- Yves Zenou*
Spatial versus Social Mismatch
Discussant: Pierre Picard
- Pierre Picard*, Pascal Mossay
Spatial Segregation and Urban Structure
Discussant: Amine Ouazad
- Amine Ouazad*
Real Estate Brokers and the Dynamics of Segregation
Discussant: Maximilian von Ehrlich
- Maximilian von Ehrlich*, Tobias Seidel
Agglomeration and credit constraints
Discussant: Yves Zenou
03A. Thu 16:00-18:00. Long Run Growth (Governor General I)
Chair: Shawn Kantor
- Ed Glaeser, Sari Kerr, William Kerr*
Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines
Discussant: Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal
- Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal*, Rafael González-Val, Daniel Tirado-Fabregat
Market potential and city growth: Spain 1860-1960
Discussant: Alex Trew
- Alex Trew*
Spatial Takeoff in the First Industrial Revolution
Discussant: Shawn Kantor
- Shawn Kantor*, Alexander Whalley
Private Gains from Public University Research: The Case of Productivity Spillovers from Agricultural Experiment Stations
Discussant: William Kerr
03B. Thu 16:00-18:00. Transportation Theory (Governor General II)
Chair: Ioannis Tikoudis
- Richard Arnott*
A Bathtub Model of Downtown Traffic Congestion
Discussant: Erik Verhoef
- Erik Verhoef*
Cost Recovery of Congested Infrastructure under Market Power
Discussant: Ioannis Tikoudis
- Ioannis Tikoudis*, Erik Verhoef, Jos van Ommeren
On revenue recycling and the welfare effects of second best congestion pricing in a monocentric city
Discussant: Richard Arnott
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03C. Thu 16:00-18:00. Education and Neighborhood Choice (Governor General III)
Chair: Henry Pollakowski
- Eleonora Patacchini*, Xiaodong Liu, Yves Zenou
Peer Effects in Education, Sport, and Screen Activities: Local Aggregate or Local Average?
Discussant: Maria Ferreyra
- Maria Ferreyra*, Grigory Kosenok
Charter School Entry and School Choice: The Case of Washington, D.C.
Discussant: Alvin Murphy
- Sebastian Galiani, Alvin Murphy*, Juan Pantano
Estimating Neighborhood Choice Models: Lessons from a Housing Assistance Experiment
Discussant: Henry Pollakowski
- John Haltiwanger, Mark Kutzbach, Henry Pollakowski*, Daniel Weinberg, Fredrik Andersson
Estimating the Long-Term Economic Effects of Children’s Housing: Using Data Density and Regression Discontinuity Design for Identification
Discussant: Eleonora Patacchini
03D. Thu 16:00-18:00. Agglomeration 2 (Provinces I)
Chair: Thomas Holmes
- Arthur O'Sullivan*
Agent-Based Models of Agglomeration and City Formation
Discussant: Nathaniel Baum-Snow
- Nathaniel Baum-Snow*, Matthew Freedman, Ronni Pavan
Why Has Urban Inequality Increased?
Discussant: Olmo Silva
- Giulia Faggio, Olmo Silva*
Does Self-Employment Measure Entrepreneurship? Evidence from Great Britain
Discussant: Thomas Holmes
- Thomas Holmes*, Bitmaro Kim
The Joint Production of Goods and Ideas: When Industry Moved to the South, did Innovation Follow?
Discussant: Arthur O'Sullivan
04A. Fri 8:00-10:00. Cities and Development (Governor General I)
Chair: Laura Hering
- Vernon Henderson*, Mark Roberts, Adam Storeygard
Is Urbanizatiuon in Sub-Saharan Africa Different?
Discussant: Miquel-Angel Garcia-Lopez
- Miquel-Angel Garcia-Lopez*, Adelheid Holl, Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal
Suburbanization and Highways: When the Romans, the Bourbons and First Automobiles Still Shape Spanish Cities
Discussant: Daniel Da Mata
- Daniel Da Mata*
The Effects of Fiscal Equalization on Housing Markets: Evidence from Brazil
Discussant: Laura Hering
- Laura Hering*, Sandra Poncet
Environmental policy and trade performance: Evidence from China
Discussant: Vernon Henderson
04B. Fri 8:00-10:00. Fuel Prices, Parking (Governor General II)
Chair: Martijn Kobus
- Elisheba Spiller*, Heather Stephens, Christopher Timmins , Allison Smith
The Effect of Gasoline Taxes and Public Transit Investments on Driving Patterns
Discussant: Jonathan Hughes
- Antonio Bento, Jonathan Hughes*, Daniel Kaffine
Carpooling and Driver Responses to Fuel Price Changes: Evidence from Traffic in Los Angeles
Discussant: Martijn Kobus
- Martijn Kobus*, Eva Gutiérrez-i-Puigarnau, Piet Rietveld, Jos Van Ommeren
The on-street parking premium and car drivers’ choice between street and garage parking
Discussant: Elisheba Spiller
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04C. Fri 8:00-10:00. Effects of Foreclosures (Governor General III)
Chair: Yi Niu
- Jeffrey Zabel*, Edward Coulson
What Can We Learn From Hedonic Models Where Markets are Domianted by Foreclosures
Discussant: Plamen Nenov
- Plamen Nenov*
Labor Market and Regional Reallocation Effects of Housing Busts
Discussant: Yi Niu
- Chengri Ding, Yi Niu*
Job Losses and Housing Foreclosures: Evidence from the State of Maryland
Discussant: Jeffrey Zabel
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04D. Fri 8:00-10:00. City Size Distribution (Provinces I)
Chair: Suzanne Kok
- Yannis Ioannides*, Spyros Skouras
US City Size Distribution: Robustly Pareto, but Only in the Tail
Discussant: Kristian Giesen
- Kristian Giesen*, Jens Suedekum
The size distribution across all “cities”: A unifying approach
Discussant: Jacques-François Thisse
- Carl Gaigné, stéphane Riou, Jacques-François Thisse*
On the number and size of cities/jurisdictions within a large metropolitan area
Discussant: Suzanne Kok
- Suzanne Kok*
Town and city jobs: job contents, skills and city size
Discussant: Yannis Ioannides
05A. Fri 10:30-12:30. Taxes and the Location of Economic Activity (Governor General I)
Chair: Elizabeth Fisher
- Jordi Jofre-Monseny*
Do welfare benefits deter migration?
Discussant: Kurt Schmidheiny
- Kurt Schmidheiny*, Michaela Slotwinski, Frank Somogyi
Tax Induced Migration of High Income Foreigners: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Switzerland.
Discussant: Stuart Rosenthal
- Shawn Rohlin, Stuart Rosenthal*, Amanda Ross
Tax Avoidance and Business Location in a State Border Model
Discussant: Elizabeth Fisher
- Carolyn Dehring, Elizabeth Fisher*
Residency Requirements and House Prices: A Natural Experiment from Ohio
Discussant: Jordi Jofre-Monseny
05B. Fri 10:30-12:30. Effects of Transportation Infrastructure Investment (Governor General II)
Chair: Alex Anas
- Leah Brooks*, Byron Lutz
Vestiges of Transit: Path Dependence and the Modern City
Discussant: Nicholas Sheard
- Nicholas Sheard*
Airports and the Production of Goods and Services
Discussant: Anca D. Cristea
- Bruce A. Blonigen, Anca D. Cristea*
Airports and Urban Growth: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Policy Experiment
Discussant: Alex Anas
- Alex Anas*
Transit oriented development (TOD) in a system of cities:
Discussant: Leah Brooks
05C. Fri 10:30-12:30. Housing Finance (Governor General III)
Chair: Albert Saiz
- Thomas Davidoff*
Can High Costs Rationalize Weak Demand for the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage?
Discussant: Jinwon Kim
- Jinwon Kim*
Financial Repression and Housing Investment: An Analysis of the Korean Chonsei
Discussant: Joseph Tracy
- Joseph Tracy*, Joshua Wright
Payment Changes and Default Risk: The Impact of Refinancing on Expected Credit Losses
Discussant: Albert Saiz
- Albert Saiz*
Interest Rates and Fundamental Fluctuations in Home Values
Discussant: Thomas Davidoff
05D. Fri 10:30-12:30. Wages and the Cost of Living (Provinces I)
Chair: David Bieri
- J. Nicholas Dadson*
Immigrants' Real Wages
Discussant: Matthias Wrede
- Matthias Wrede*
Wages, Rents, Unemployment, and the Quality of Life
Discussant: Jessie Handbury
- Jessie Handbury*
Are Poor Cities Cheap for Everyone? Non-Homotheticity and the Cost of Living Across U.S. Cities
Discussant: David Bieri
- David Bieri*, Casey Dawkins
Housing Affordability with Local Wage and Price Variation
Discussant: J. Nicholas Dadson
06A. Fri 13:30-15:30. Agglomeration 3 (Governor General I)
Chair: Daniel Murphy
- Donald Davis, Jonathan Dingel*
A Spatial Knowledge Economy
Discussant: Kentaro Nakajima
- Hiroyasu Inoue, Kentaro Nakajima*, Yukiko Saito
Geographical Concentration of Inter-Organizational Collaborations
Discussant: Victor Couture
- Victor Couture*
Travel demand and the consumption value of urban density.
Discussant: Daniel Murphy
- Daniel Murphy*
Urban Density and the Substitution of Market Purchases for Home Production
Discussant: Jonathan Dingel
06B. Fri 13:30-15:30. Trade (Governor General II)
Chair: Kristian Behrens
- Janet Kohlhase*, Steven Craig, Adam Perdue
Economic Relations Between Employment Centers
Discussant: Peter M. Morrow
- Gilles Duranton, Peter M. Morrow*, Matthew A. Turner
Roads and Trade: Evidence from the US
Discussant: Frédéric Robert-Nicoud
- Marius Brülhart, Céline Carrère, Frédéric Robert-Nicoud*
Trade and Towns: On the Uneven Effects of Trade Liberalization
Discussant: Kristian Behrens
- Kristian Behrens*
Unweaving clusters: Manufacturing localization and international trade in Canada, 2001–2009
Discussant: Janet Kohlhase
06C. Fri 13:30-15:30. Effects of Negative Housing Equity (Governor General III)
Chair: Morris A. Davis
- Jesse Bricker*, Brian Bucks
Household Mobility, Negative Home Equity, and Economic Insecurity: Evidence from the 2007–2009 SCF Panel
Discussant: Chris Cunningham
- Chris Cunningham*, Rob Reed
Negative Equity and Wages
Discussant: Tom Mayock
- Fredrik Andersson, Tom Mayock*
How Does Home Equity Affect Homeowner Mobility?
Discussant: Morris A. Davis
- Morris A. Davis*, Jonas D.M. Fisher, Marcelo Veracierto
The Role of Housing in Labor Reallocation
Discussant: Jesse Bricker
06D. Fri 13:30-15:30. Crime and Housing (Provinces I)
Chair: Jan Rouwendal
- Michael Eriksen*, James Carson
Burning Down the House: Moral Hazard and House Prices
Discussant: Tom Mayock
- Keith Ihlanfeldt, Tom Mayock*
Foreclosures, Crime, and Housing Values: Towards A Better Understanding of the Contagion Effect
Discussant: Christina Plerhoples
- Christina Plerhoples*
The Effect of Vacant Building Demolitions on Crime Under Depopulation
Discussant: Jan Rouwendal
- Wim Bernasco, Thomas de Graaff, Jan Rouwendal*, Wouter Steenbeek
Social Interactions and Crime Revisited
Discussant: Michael Eriksen
07. Fri 16:00-18:00. A tribute to John Quigley (Provinces I)
Chair: Vernon Henderson
- David Albouy*, Bryan Stuart
Urban Quantities and Amenities
- Christian L. Redfearn*, Philip J. Ethington
Tipping Revisited: Neighborhood Context, Perceptions of Stability & The Pervasiveness of Tolerance in Los Angeles 1940-2000
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08A. Sat 8:00-10:00. Human Capital in Cities (Governor General I)
Chair: Sabine D'Costa
- Zhi Wang*
Smart City: Learning Effects and Labor Force Entry
Discussant: Steven Brakman
- Steven Brakman*, Harry Garretsen, Charles Van Marrewijk
Geographic Concentration of Mergers & Acquisitions
Discussant: Wen-Chi Liao
- Yuming Fu, Wen-Chi Liao*
What Drive the Geographic Concentration of College Graduates in US? Evidence of Learning in Cities from Internal Migration
Discussant: Sabine D'Costa
- Sabine D'Costa*, Henry Overman
Does labour market size have an effect on the wage growth of workers in Great Britain?
Discussant: Zhi Wang
08B. Sat 8:00-10:00. Environment (Governor General II)
Chair: Wouter Vermeulen
- Gabriel Ahlfeldt*, Wolfgang Maennig
Homeownership and NIMBYism: A spatial analysis of airport effects
Discussant: Antonio Bento
- Antonio Bento*, Matthew Freedman, Corey Lang
Spatial and Social Disparities in the Benefits from Air Quality Improvements
Discussant: Corey Lang
- Corey Lang*
The Dynamics of House Price Capitalization and Locational Sorting: Evidence from Air Quality Changes
Discussant: Wouter Vermeulen
- Wouter Vermeulen*, Jan Rouwendal
On the value of foregone open space in sprawling cities
Discussant: Gabriel Ahlfeldt
08C. Sat 8:00-10:00. Labor markets and Neighborhoods (Ontario)
Chair: Nathan Schiff
- Judith Hellerstein, Mark Kutzbach*, David Neumark
Do Labor Market Networks Have An Important Spatial Dimension?
Discussant: Gregory Verdugo
- Gregory Verdugo*, Javier Ortega
The Impact of Immigration on Local Labor Market Outcomes of Native Workers: Panel Data Evidence
Discussant: Kyle Mangum
- Kyle Mangum*
A Dynamic Model of Cities and Labor Market Dynamics
Discussant: Nathan Schiff
- Tianran Dai, Nathan Schiff*
Dynamics of Ethnic Neighborhoods
Discussant: Mark Kutzbach
09A. Sat 10:30-12:30. Amenities and Culture (Governor General I)
Chair: Jeffrey Lin
- Mark van Duijn*, Jan Rouwendal
The Residential Location Choice and Income Distribution in Cities with a Historic City Centre
Discussant: Janice Madden
- Janice Madden*
Gayborhoods: The Economics and Demographics of the Concentration of Gays within Large American Cities
Discussant: Stephen Sheppard
- Peter Pedroni, Stephen Sheppard*
Culture Shocks and Consequences: the connection between the arts and urban prosperity
Discussant: Jeffrey Lin
- Sanghoon Lee, Jeffrey Lin*
Neighborhood Dynamics and Natural Amenities: Evidence from US Cities, 1880-2010
Discussant: Mark van Duijn
09B. Sat 10:30-12:30. Public Employment and Income Transfers (Governor General II)
Chair: Antonio Accetturo
- Sascha Becker, Stephan Heblich, Daniel Sturm*
The Impact of Public Employment: Evidence from Bonn
Discussant: Laurent Gobillon
- Laurent Gobillon*, Thierry Magnac
Regional Policy Evaluation, Interactive Fixed Effects and Synthetic Controls
Discussant: Jesse Gregory
- Jesse Gregory*
The Impact of Rebuilding Grants and Wage Subsidies on the Resettlement Choices of Hurricane Katrina Victims
Discussant: Antonio Accetturo
- Antonio Accetturo*, Guido de Blasio, Lorenzo Ricci
A Tale of an Unwanted Outcome: Transfers and the Local Endowments of Trust and Cooperation
Discussant: Daniel Sturm
09C. Sat 10:30-12:30. Local Public Goods (Ontario)
Chair: Oded Hochman
- David Pines*
Can Tiebout equilibrium be optimal without head tax and zoning?
Discussant: Jorn Rattsø
- Lars-Erik Borge, Jan K. Brueckner, Jorn Rattsø*
Partial Fiscal Decentralization and Public-Sector Heterogeneity: Theory and Evidence from Norway
Discussant: Chia-Ming Yu
- Shin-Kun Peng, Ping Wang, Chia-Ming Yu*
Public Good Inputs, Housing Quality, and Locational Stratification
Discussant: Oded Hochman
- Oded Hochman*
Welfare Estimation in a General Equilibrium Model with Cities
Discussant: David Pines