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CONFERENCE IN URBAN AND REGIONAL ECONOMICS (CURE)

Supported by
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)
Camera di Commercio di Milano

Milan
12-13 October 2009

 

Monday 12 October

 

08.45 - 09.00 Introductory remarks

 

09.00 - 10.00 Violent Crime, Entrepreneurship, and Cities

Stuart Rosenthal, Syracuse University
(with Amanda Ross)

 

10.00 - 11.00 Sorting, Selection and Agglomeration

Kristian Behrens, University of Quebec, Montreal and CEPR
Gilles Duranton, University of Toronto and CEPR
Frédéric Robert-Nicoud, University of Geneva and CEPR

 

11.00 - 11.30 Coffee Break

 

11.30 - 12.30 An Alternative Theory of the Plant Size Distribution with an Application to Trade

Thomas Holmes, University of Minnesota
(with John J. Stevens)

 

12.30 - 13.30 Spatial Development

Klaus Desmet, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and CEPR
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Princeton University and CEPR

 

13.30 - 15.00 Lunch

 

15.00 - 16.00 Housing Prices and Neighborhood Homeownership and Vacancies

Edward Coulson, Penn State University (
with Herman Li)

 

16.00 - 17.00 Forced Sales and House Prices

Stefano W. Giglio, Harvard University
(with John Campbell and Parag Pathak)

 

20.00 Conference Dinner

 

Tuesday 13 October

 

09.00 - 10.00 Measuring Economic Growth from Outer Space

J. Vernon Henderson, Brown University
(with Adam Storeygard and David N. Weil)

 

10.00 - 11.00 Urbanization and Structural Transformation

Stephen J. Redding, London School of Economics and CEPR
(with Guy Michaels and Ferdinand Rauch)

 

11.00 - 11.30 Coffee Break

 

11.30 - 12.30 Returns to Migration, Education, and Externalities in the European Union

Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, London School of Economics
(with Vassilis Tselios)

 

12.30 - 13.30 A Quantitative Assessment of the Role of Agglomeration Economies in the Spatial Concentration of U.S. Employment

Satyajit Chatterjee, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

 

13.30 - 14.30 Lunch

 

15.00 - 17.00 Roundtable

 

17.00 End of Conference

 

Speakers have 45 minutes to present, leaving 15 minutes for general discussion.

 

Organizers: Gianmarco Ireo Paolo Ottaviano, Bocconi University, FEEM and CEPR
Diego Puga, IMDEA and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and CEPR

 

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