Economics of Infrastructure
Organized by Edward L. Glaeser and James M. Poterba
Supported by the Smith Richardson Foundation
March 1, 2019
NBER, 2nd Floor Conference Room, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA

Friday, March 1

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

9:00 am

Government Consumption and Investment: Does the Composition of Purchases Affect the Multiplier?

Christoph Boehm, University of Texas at Austin and NBER

9:35 am

The Interstate Multiplier (slides)

Daniel Leff Yaffe, University of California, San Diego

10:10 am

Break

10:30 am

Renegotiations and Corruption: The Odebrecht Case

Nicolas Campos, Universidad de Chile
Eduardo Engel, University of Chile
Ronald Fischer, Universidad de Chile
Alexander Galetovic, Adolfo Ibáñez University

11:05 am

Scaling Auctions as Insurance: A Case Study in Infrastructure Procurement (slides)

Shoshana Vasserman, Stanford University and NBER
Valentin Bolotnyy, Stanford University

11:40 am

The Subsidy to Infrastructure as an Asset Class

Aleksandar Andonov, University of Amsterdam
Roman Kräussl, Bayes Business School
Joshua Rauh, Stanford University and NBER

12:15 pm

Lunch

1:00 pm

Commuting, Labor, and Housing Market Effects of Mass Transportation: Welfare and Identification (slides)

Christopher Severen, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

1:35 pm

The Private Impact of Public Information: Landsat Satellite Maps and Gold Exploration (slides)

Abhishek Nagaraj, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

2:10 pm

Trade, Structural Transformation and Development: Evidence from Argentina 1869-1914

Pablo Fajgelbaum, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Stephen J. Redding, Princeton University and NBER

2:45 pm

Break

3:00 pm

Discussion of Next Steps for Economics of Infrastructure Project

3:45 pm

Adjourn