NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2004

 

Real Estate Markets, Local Public Finance, and Public Policy

Joe Gyourko, Chris Mayer, and Todd Sinai, Organizers

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

August 2 and 3, 2004

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

MONDAY, AUGUST 2:

 

 

12:30 p.m.

Lunch

 

 

 1:30 p.m.

JONAH ROCKOFF, Columbia University

 

Community Heterogeneity and Local Response to Fiscal Incentives

 

 

 

Discussant: PATRICK BAYER, Yale University and NBER

 

 

 2:30 p.m.

CAROLINE HOXBY, Harvard University and NBER

 

ILYANA KUZIEMKO, Harvard University

 

Robin Hood and His Not-So-Merry Plan: Capitalization and the Self-Destruction of Texas= School Finance Equalization Plan

 

 

 

Discussant: THOMAS NECHYBA, Duke University and NBER

 

 

 3:30 p.m.

Break

 

 

 4:00 p.m.

STEPHEN CALABRESE, University of South Florida

 

DENNIS EPPLE, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER

 

On the Political Economy of Tax Limits

 

 

 

Discussant: ROBERT INMAN, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

 

 5:00 p.m.

Adjourn

 

 

 6:00 p.m.

Group Dinner

 

Legal Sea Food

 

Kendall Sq.

 

 

TUESDAY, AUGUST 3:

 

 

 8:00 a.m.

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 8:30 a.m.

NANCY WALLACE, UC, Berkeley

 

DONALD WALLS, Walls Associates

 

Agglomeration Economies and the High-Tech Computer Cluster

 

 

 

Discussant: WILL STRANGE, University of Toronto

 

 

 9:30 a.m.

Break

 

 

10:00 a.m.

DONALD DAVIS and DAVID WEINSTEIN, Columbia University and NBER

 

A Search for Multiple Equilibria in Urban Industrial Structure

 

 

 

Discussant: EDWARD GLAESER, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

11:00 a.m.

JOSEPH GYOURKO, University of Pennsylvania

 

CHRISTOPHER MAYER, Columbia University and NBER

 

TODD SINAI, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

Superstar Cities

 

 

 

Discussant: EMMANUEL SAEZ, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

 

12:00 N

Lunch

 

 

 1:00 p.m.

RAJ CHETTY, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

ADAM SZEIDL, Harvard University

 

Consumption Commitments and Asset Prices

 

 

 

Discussant: FRANCOIS ORTALO-MAGNE, University of Wisconsin

 

 

 2:00 p.m.

WILLIAM COLLINS, Vanderbilt University

 

ROBERT MARGO, Vanderbilt University and NBER

 

The Economic Aftermath of the 1960s Riots: Evidence from Property Values

 

 

 

Discussant: JOHN QUIGLEY, UC, Berkeley

 

 

 3:00 p.m.

Break

 

 

 3:30 p.m.

FERNANDO FERREIRA, University of Pennsylvania

 

You Can Take It With You: Transferability of Proposition 13 Tax Benefits, Residential Mobility, and Willingness to Pay for Housing Amenities

 

 

 

Discussant: JACOB VIGDOR, Duke University and NBER

 

 

 4:30 p.m.

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

5/26/04