NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Economics of Agglomeration Preconference

Edward Glaeser, Organizer

March 23, 2007

NBER, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

8:30-9:00 a.m.	Breakfast
9:00- 9:45 a.m.	Edward Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER
	Productivity, Amenities and Housing Supply and the Rise of the Sunbelt
9:45-10:30 a.m.	Joseph Gyourko, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
	Christopher Mayer, Columbia University and NBER
	Todd Sinai, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
	Superstar Cities Revisited
10:30-11:15 a.m.	Stuart Rosenthal, Syracuse University
	William Strange, University of Toronto
	Small Firms/Big Effects:  The Impact of Agglomeration and Industrial Organization on Entrepreneurship."
11:15-12:00  p.m.	WILLIAM KERR, Harvard University
	Ethnic Inventors and Agglomeration
12:00-12:45 p.m.	Lunch
12:45-1:15 p.m.	Matthew Kahn, Tufts University
	(presented by Glaeser)
	New Evidence on Trends in the Cost of Urban Agglomeration
1:15-2:00 p.m.	JOEL WALDFOGEL, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
	Who Benefits Whom in the Neighborhood? Demographics and Retail Product Geography
2:00:-2:45 p.m.	Amitabh Chandra, Harvard University and NBER
	Agglomeration in the Health Industry
2:45-3:30 p.m.	Thomas Holmes, University of Minnesota and NBER
	Sanghoon Lee, University of British Columbia
	Agglomeration at the Micro Level in Agriculture: Anything Besides Natural Advantage?
3:30 - 4:15 p.m.	Gilles Duranton, University of Toronto
	Agglomeration in France
4:15 - 5:00 p.m.	Henry Overman, London School of Economics
	Diego Puga, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and CREI
	Labor pooling as a source of agglomeration: An empirical investigation
5:00 p.m.	Adjourn