Economics of Place-Based Policies
Cécile 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 and Political Science (LSE) 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, University of California, Berkeley 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, U.S. Department of the Treasury Naomi E. Feldman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Craig Johnson, U.S. 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 | |||