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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

Summer Institute 2012

 

Urban Economics Workshop

 

Edward L. Glaeser, Organizer

 

July 23, 2012

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

University Room

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 


8:30 am


William R. Kerr, Harvard University and NBER
Scott Duke Kominers, University of Chicago
Agglomerative Forces and Cluster Shapes

Discussant: David Albouy University of Michigan and NBER


9:30 am


Diego A. Comin, Harvard University and NBER
Mikhail Dmitriev, Boston College
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Princeton University and NBER
The Spatial Diffusion of Technology

Discussant: Pol Antras, Harvard University and NBER


10:30 am


Break


10:45 am


Jorge De la Roca
Diego Puga, Instituto Madrileño de Estudios Avanzados
Learning by working in big cities

Discussant: Naomi Hausman Harvard University


11:45 am


Sanghoon Lee, University of British Columbia
Qiang Li, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Uneven Landscapes and the City Size Distribution

Discussant: Xavier Gabaix, New York University and NBER


12:45 pm


Lunch


1:30 pm


Peter N. Ganong and Daniel Shoag, Harvard University
Why Has Regional Convergence in the U.S. Stopped?

Discussant: Joseph Gyourko University of Pennsylvania and NBER


2:30 pm


Stuart Rosenthal, Syracuse University
Are Private Markets and Filtering a Viable Source of Low-Income Housing? Estimates from a “Repeat Income” Model

Discussant: Denise DiPasquale, City Research


3:30 pm


Break


3:45 pm


Nathaniel Baum-Snow, Brown University and NBER
Loren Brandt, University of Toronto
J. Vernon Henderson, Brown University and NBER
Matthew Turner, University of Toronto
Qinghua Zhang, Peking University
Roads, Railroads and the Decentralization of Chinese Cities

Discussant: Richard Hornbeck, Harvard University and NBER


4:45 pm


Victor Couture, University of Toronto
Gilles Duranton, University of Toronto
Matthew Turner, University of Toronto
Speed

Discussant: Edward Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER