Economics of Place-Based Policies
Cecile Gaubert, Gordon H. Hanson, and David Neumark, Organizers
November 7-8, 2024
Format: 25 minutes for authors, 10 minutes for discussants, and 10 minutes for Q & A.
| Thursday, November 7 | ||||
| 12:30pm | Lunch, Somerset | |||
| 1:30pm | Opening Remarks | |||
| 1:45pm |
Peter R. Berkowitz, Directorate General for Regional and Urban Policy Michael Storper, London School of Economics Place-Based Policies in the US and EU in comparative perspecitve: a review
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| 2:30pm |
Randall Akee, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Maggie R. Jones, U.S. Census Bureau Emilia Simeonova, Johns Hopkins University and NBER Tribal Casinos and Economic Success
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| 3:15pm | Break | |||
| 3:30pm |
Dimitria Freitas, TUD Dresden University of Technology The Potential of Public Employment Reallocation as a Place-Based Policy
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| 4:15pm |
Moderator: James Poterba, MIT and NBER Panelists: Dell Gines, International Economic Development Council Yvonne Hao, Secretary, Executive Office of Economic Development, State of Massachusetts David Wessel, Brookings Institution |
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| 5:30pm | Adjourn | |||
| 6:00pm | Dinner, Parkview Room, Royal Sonesta Hotel | |||
| Friday, November 8 | ||||
| 8:30am | Breakfast | |||
| 9:00am |
Andrew Garin, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER Do Place-Based Industrial Interventions Help ``Left-Behind'' Workers? Lessons from WWII and Beyond
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| 9:45am |
Pablo D. Fajgelbaum, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Cecile Gaubert, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Place-Based Policies: Lessons from Theory
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| 10:30am | Break | |||
| 10:45am |
Matthew Freedman, University of California, Irvine David Neumark, University of California, Irvine and NBER Lessons Learned and Ignored in U.S. Place-Based Policymaking
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| 11:30am |
Kevin Corinth, American Enterprise Institute David Coyne, Department of the Treasury Naomi E. Feldman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Craig Johnson, Department of the Treasury The Targeting of Place-Based Policies: The New Markets Tax Credit Versus Opportunity Zones
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| 12:15pm | Lunch, Somerset | |||
| 1:15pm |
Gordon H. Hanson, Harvard University and NBER Dani Rodrik, Harvard University and NBER Rohan Sandhu, Harvard University The Place Based Policy Supply Chain
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| 2:00pm | Closing Remarks | |||
| 2:15pm | Adjourn | |||