The Tenth Annual Conference on Urban and Regional Economics - Programme

The Tenth Annual Conference on Urban and Regional Economics

Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
November 30 - December 1, 2018

 

Sponsors:

The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

 

Organizers:

Gerald Carlino, Gilles Duranton, Jessie Handbury, Jeffrey Lin

 

Friday, November 30, 2018

 

08:30 – 09:00 am        Breakfast (at conference venue)

 

09:00 – 10:00              Improving Mobility in Developing Country Cities: Evaluating Bus Rapid Transit and Other Policies in Jakarta

 

                                    Presenter: Alexander Rothenberg (Syracuse)

                                    Discussant: Nick Tsivanidis (Dartmouth)

 

10:00 – 11:00              Is Uber a substitute or complement for public transit?

 

                                    Presenter: Jonathan D. Hall (Toronto)

                                    Discussant: Alejandro Molnar (Vanderbilt)

 

11:00 – 11:30              Coffee break

 

11:30 – 12:30              The Role of Universities in Local Invention: Evidence from the Establishment of U.S. Colleges

 

                                    Presenter: Michael Andrews (NBER)

                                    Discussant: Alex Whalley (Calgary)

 

12:30 – 02:00 pm        Lunch

 

 

 

02:00 – 03:00              Income Segregation and Rise of the Knowledge Economy

 

                                    Presenter: Enrico Berkes (Ohio State)

                                    Discussant: Henry Overman (LSE and CEPR)

 

03:00 – 04:00              What's Wrong with Pittsburgh? Investor Composition and Trade Frequency in US Cities

 

                                    Presenter: Andra Ghent (Wisconsin)

                                    Discussant: Jack Liebersohn (Ohio State)

 

04:00 – 04:30              Coffee break

 

04:30 – 05:30              Stringency of Land-Use Regulation: Building Heights in US Cities

 

                                    Presenter: Jan Brueckner (UC Irvine)

                                    Discussant: Devin Bunten (MIT)

 

06:00 – 07:00              Reception (at conference venue)

 

07:30                           Dinner (Amada, 217 Chestnut St)

 

 

 

Saturday, December 1, 2018

 

08:00 – 08:30 am        Breakfast (at conference venue)

 

08:30 – 09:30              Shift-Share Designs: Theory and Inference

 

                                    Presenter: Eduardo Morales (Princeton and CEPR)

                                    Discussant: Nate Baum-Snow (Toronto)

 

09:30 – 10:30              Location as an Asset

 

                                    Presenter: Adrien Bilal (Princeton)

                                    Discussant: Elisa Giannone (Penn State)

 

10:30 – 11:30              Coffee break

 

11:30 – 12:30 pm        Optimal Spatial Policies, Geography and Sorting

 

                                    Presenter: Cecile Gaubert (UC Berkeley and CEPR)

                                    Discussant: Farid Farrokhi (Purdue)

 

12:30 – 01:30              Estimating the Welfare Gains from E-Commerce: A Price Arbitrage Approach

 

                                    Presenter: David Weinstein (Columbia)

                                    Discussant: Amine Ouazad (HEC)

 

01:30                           Box lunch