NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

Economics of Agglomeration Conference

 

Organizer:  Edward Glaeser

 

November 30 - December 1, 2007

 

National Bureau of Economic Research

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

Preliminary Program

 

Friday, November 30

 

 

8:15 a.m.

Van from Royal Sonesta Hotel to NBER

 

 

8:30-9:00 a.m.

Breakfast

 

 

9:00- 10:00 a.m.

Edward Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER

 

GIACOMO PONZETTO, Harvard University

 

Why did the death of distance hurt Detroit and help New York?

 

Discussant: Diego Puga, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and CREI

 

 

10:00-11:00 a.m.

Stuart Rosenthal, Syracuse University

 

William Strange, University of Toronto

 

Small Firms/Big Effects:  The Impact of Agglomeration and Industrial Organization on Entrepreneurship."

 

Discussant: GREGORY LEWIS, Harvard University

 

 

11:00-12:00  a.m.

WILLIAM KERR, Harvard University

 

Ethnic Inventors and Agglomeration

 

Discussant: JEFFREY FURMAN, Boston University and NBER

 

 

12:00-1:00 p.m.

 Lunch

 

 

1:00-2:00 p.m.

JOEL WALDFOGEL, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

Who Benefits Whom in the Neighborhood? Demographics and Retail Product Geography

 

Discussant: William Strange, University of Toronto

 

 

2:00:-3:00 p.m.

Amitabh Chandra, Harvard University and NBER

 

KATHERINE BAICKER, Harvard University and NBER

 

Agglomeration in the Health Industry

 

Discussant:

 

 

3:00-4:00 p.m.

Thomas Holmes, University of Minnesota and NBER

 

Sanghoon Lee, University of British Columbia

 

Agglomeration at the Micro Level in Agriculture: Anything Besides Natural Advantage?

 

Discussant: JOEL WALDFOGEL, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

 

4:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Henry Overman, London School of Economics

 

Diego Puga, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and CREI

 

Labor pooling as a source of agglomeration: An empirical investigation

 

Discussant: Edward Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

5:00

Adjourn

 

 

 

There will be a dinner Friday evening, details to follow

 

 

Saturday, December 1

 

 

8:15 a.m.

Van from Royal Sonesta Hotel to NBER

 

 

8:30-9:00 a.m.

Breakfast

 

 

9:00-10:00 a.m.

Matthew Kahn, Tufts University

 

 New Evidence on Trends in the Cost of Urban Agglomeration

 

Discussant: Joseph Gyourko, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

 

10:00 – 11:00 a.m.

Gilles Duranton, University of Toronto

 

Agglomeration in France

 

Discussant: Thomas Holmes, University of Minnesota and NBER

 

 

11:00-12:00 n.

Joseph Gyourko, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

Christopher Mayer, Columbia University and NBER

 

Todd Sinai, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

Superstar Cities Revisited

 

Discussant: Matthew Kahn, Tufts University