NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Economics of Agglomeration Conference

Organizer: Edward Glaeser

November 30 - December 1, 2007

National Bureau of Economic Research

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Preliminary Program

Friday, November 30
8:15 a.m.	Van from Royal Sonesta Hotel to NBER
8:30-9:00 a.m.	Breakfast
9:00- 10:00 a.m.	Edward Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER
	GIACOMO PONZETTO, Harvard University
	Why did the death of distance hurt Detroit and help New York?
	Discussant: Diego Puga, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and CREI
10:00-11:00 a.m.	Thomas Holmes, University of Minnesota and NBER
	Sanghoon Lee, University of British Columbia
	Cities as Six-by-Six-Mile Squares
	Discussant: JOEL WALDFOGEL, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
11:00-12:00  a.m.	WILLIAM KERR, Harvard University
	Ethnic Inventors and Agglomeration
	Discussant: JEFFREY FURMAN, Boston University and NBER
12:00-1:00 p.m.	Lunch
1:00-2:00 p.m.	JOEL WALDFOGEL, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
	Who Benefits Whom in the Neighborhood? Demographics and Retail Product Geography
	Discussant: William Strange, University of Toronto
2:00:-3:00 p.m.	Amitabh Chandra, Harvard University and NBER
	KATHERINE BAICKER, Harvard University and NBER
	Agglomeration in the Health Industry
	Discussant:
3:00-4:00 p.m.	Stuart Rosenthal, Syracuse University
	William Strange, University of Toronto
	Small Firms/Big Effects:  The Impact of Agglomeration and Industrial Organization on Entrepreneurship
	Discussant: GREGORY LEWIS, Harvard University
4:00 - 5:00 p.m.	Henry Overman, London School of Economics
	Diego Puga, IMDEA and Universidad Carlos III
	Labor pooling as a source of agglomeration: An empirical investigation
	Discussant: Edward Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER
5:00	Adjourn
6:30	Dinner Restaurant Dante Royal Sonesta Hotel 40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard Cambridge, MA
Saturday, December 1
8:15 a.m.	Van from Royal Sonesta Hotel to NBER
8:30-9:00 a.m.	Breakfast
9:00-10:00 a.m.	Matthew Kahn, UC, Los Angeles and NBER
	New Evidence on Trends in the Cost of Urban Agglomeration
	Discussant: Joseph Gyourko, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
10:00 – 11:00 a.m.	Gilles Duranton, University of Toronto
	SEBASTIEN ROUX, ENSAE
	Estimating agglomeration effects: Does playing with different instruments give a consistent tune?
	Discussant: Thomas Holmes, University of Minnesota and NBER
11:00-12:00 n.	Joseph Gyourko, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
	Christopher Mayer, Columbia University and NBER
	Todd Sinai, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
	What Accounts for Growing House Price and Income Dispersion Across Markets: Productivity, Sorting, or Both?
	Discussant: Matthew Kahn, Tufts University
12:00-1:00 p.m.	JED KOLKO, Public Policy Institute of California
	Agglomeration and Co-agglomeration of Services Industries
	Discussant: Edward Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER
1:00 p.m.	Adjourn