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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SI 2014 Urban Economics

Edward L. Glaeser, Organizer

July 21, 2014

University Room

Royal Sonesta Hotel
40 Edwin H. Land Blvd
Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

 

Monday, July 21


7:30 am


Coffee and Pastries


8:00 am


Juan Suarez, Stanford University
Owen M. Zidar, University of California at Berkeley
Who Benefits from State Corporate Tax Cuts? A Local Labor Markets Approach with Heterogeneous Firms

Discussant: Andrew Haughwout, Federal Reserve Bank of New York


9:00 am


Daniel W. Shoag, Harvard University
Stan A. Veuger, American Enterprise Institute
Shops and the City: Evidence on Local Externalities and Local Government Policy from Big Box Bankruptcies

Discussant: Denise DiPasquale, City Research


10:00 am


Break


10:15 am


Jorge De la Roca, New York University
Gianmarco Ottaviano, Bocconi University
Diego Puga, CEMFI
City of Dreams

Discussant: Jesse M. Shapiro, University of Chicago and NBER


11:15 am


Giacomo Ponzetto, CREI, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Federico Boffa, IEB and Universita di Macerata
Amedeo Piolatto, IEB and Unversitat de Barcelona
Political Centralization and Government Accountability

Discussant: Christopher Berry, University of Chicago


12:15 pm


Lunch


1:00 pm


Qinghua Zhang, Peking University
Zhi Wang, Fudan University, China
Hongbin Cai, Peking University
To Violate or Not?Land Use Regulations and Implementation in Urban China

Discussant: Alain Bertaud, New York University


2:00 pm


Remi C. Jedwab, George Washington University
Luc Christiaensen, United Nations University
Marina Gindelsky, George Washington University
Rural Push, Urban Pull and... Urban Push? New Historical Evidence from Developing Countries

Discussant: Eric Chaney, Harvard University


3:00 pm


Simon Alder, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chinese Roads in India: The Effect of Transport Infrastructure on Economic Development

Discussant: J. Vernon Henderson, London School of Economics and NBER


4:00 pm


Break


4:15 pm


Samuel Bazzi, Boston University
Arya Gaduh, University of Arkansas
Alexander Rothenberg, University of California at Berkeley
Maisy Wong, University of Pennsylvania
Skill Transferability, Migration, and Development: Evidence from Population Resettlement in Indonesia

Discussant: Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Yale University and NBER


5:15 pm


Walker Hanlon, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER
Antonio Miscio, Columbia University
Agglomeration: A Dynamic Approach

Discussant: Glenn Ellison, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER


6:15 pm


Adjourn


Tuesday, July 22
– Morning session joint with Real Estate


8:00 am


Coffee and Pastries


8:30 am


Kyle Mangum, Georgia State University
The Global Effects of Housing Policy

Discussant: Joseph E. Aldy, Harvard University and NBER


9:30 am


Break


9:45 am


Leah Brooks, University of Toronto
Byron Lutz, Federal Reserve Board
Vestiges of Transit: Urban Persistence at a Micro Scale

Discussant: Gilles Duranton, University of Pennsylvania


10:45 am


Donald R. Davis, Columbia University and NBER
Jonathan I. Dingel, Columbia University
Joan Monras, Columbia University
Eduardo Morales, Princeton University and NBER
Spatial and Social Frictions in the City: Evidence from Yelp

Discussant: Albert Saiz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology


11:45 am


Lunch