Diego Puga (University of Toronto)

From sectoral to functional urban specialisation

Monday, October 1 2001 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Angela No (University of Toronto)

Technology uptake: The role of agglomeration

Tuesday, October 30 2001 16:10–17:30, Front Conference Room

Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (Chicago)

Optimal Urban Land Use and Zoning

Thursday, February 7 2002 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Edward L. Glaeser (Harvard)

The Rise of the Regulatory State (joint with Andrei Shleifer)

Friday, March 1 2002 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Meric Gertler (University of Toronto)

Tacit Knowledge and the Economic Geography of Context

Wednesday, March 6 2002 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Patrick Bayer (Yale University)

Exploring the Causes of Residential Segregation: an Equilibrium Analysis of Neighborhood Sorting

Monday, March 25 2002 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Pierre-Philippe Combes (Boston University)

Wage differences across French local labour markets: Endowments, skills, and interactions

Wednesday, April 3 2002 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Tom Holmes (Minnesota)

The Role of Cities: Evidence from the Placement of Sales Offices

Monday, October 7 2002 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 133

Randal Walsh (University of Colorado)

Analyzing Open Space Policies in a Location Model with Endogenous Landscape Amenities

Friday, November 1 2002 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Will Strange (University of Toronto)

The Urban Rat Race

Monday, November 4 2002 16:00–17:30, Rotman, room 147

Diego Puga (University of Toronto)

Sprawl: A portrait from space (joint with Marcy Burchfield, Henry G. Overman, and Matthew A. Turner)

Monday, March 17 2003 13:00–14:30, Coach House Conference Room

Anthony Briant (UC Berkeley)

DOTS TO BOXES: DO THE SIZE AND SHAPE OF SPATIAL UNITS JEOPARDIZE ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY ESTIMATIONS? (joint with Pierre-Philippe Combes and Miren Lafourcade)

Thursday, September 18 2008 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 133

Tom Davidoff (UC Berkeley)

Home Prices Grow Where Location Matters

Thursday, October 23 2008 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 145

Maria M Ferreyra (Carnegie Melllon)

An Empirical Framework for Large-Scale Policy Analysis, with an Application to School Finance Reform in Michigan

Thursday, October 30 2008 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 133

Albert Saiz (Wharton)

City Beautiful

Monday, November 10 2008 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 133

Tomoya Mori (University of Kyoto)

On the new empirical regularities among industrial location behavior, industrial diversity and population sizes of cities in Japan

Monday, November 17 2008 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Dan McMillen (University of Illinois at Chicago)

Reforms, Tax Limits, and the Distribution of School Expenditures: A Quantile Approach (joint with Larry D. Singell, Jr.)

Thursday, December 4 2008 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 133

Pat Bayer (Duke)

cancelled

Monday, December 8 2008 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 133

Guy Michaels (LSE)

Do Oil Windfalls Improve Living Standards? Evidence from Brazil (joint with Francesco Caselli)

Thursday, October 1 2009 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 168

Chris Timmins (Duke)

A Theory-Based Approach to Hedonic Price Regressions with Time-Varying Unobserved Product Attributes: The Price of Pollution (joint with Patrick Bajari, Jane Cooley, Kyoo il Kim)

Thursday, November 5 2009 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 134

Victor Couture (University of Toronto)

A mechanism for knowledge transfers in cities

Friday, November 13 2009 13:00–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Lu Han (University of Toronto)

Search and Matching in the Housing Markets (joint with David Genesove)

Friday, November 13 2009 14:00–15:00, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Marcello Pagnini (Bank of Italy (visiting UoT))

Agglomeration and selection effects in local markets

Friday, November 13 2009 15:30–16:30, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Stephan Heblich (Max Plank Institute of Economics (visiting UoT))

From Russia with Love: The Impact of Re-Located Firms on Incumbent Survival

Friday, November 13 2009 16:30–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Alex Pfaff (Duke)

REDD Roads? spatial frontier dynamics & spatial variation in causal impacts (joint with Juan Robalino)

Thursday, December 10 2009 15:30–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 168

Nathan Wozny (Princeton University)

Gasoline Prices, Fuel Economy, and the Energy Paradox (joint with Hunt Alcott)

Thursday, January 21 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Enrico Moretti (U.C. Berkeley)

Real Wage Inequality

Thursday, March 25 2010 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 127

Gilles Duranton (University of Toronto)

California Dreamin’: The feeble case for cluster policies

Thursday, September 23 2010 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Abdullah Yavas (University of Wisconsin)

Adverse Selection in Mortgage Securitization (joint with Sumit Agarwal and Yan Chang)

Thursday, October 21 2010 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 134

David Albouy (University of Michigan)

Metropolitan Land Values and Housing Productivity (joint with Gabriel Ehrlich)

Thursday, December 9 2010 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 134

Morris Davis (University of Wisconsin)

Macroeconomic Implications of Agglomeration (joint with Jonas D.M. Fisher, Toni M. Whited)

Thursday, March 17 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Urban and Real Estate Day (with presentations by P. Morrow, J. Jofre-Monseny, V. Couture, and W. Strange)

Lunch will be provided

Thursday, April 12 2012 13:00–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Dave Donaldson (MIT)

Railroads and American Economic Growth: A "Market Access" Approach (joint with Richard Hornbeck)

Monday, September 30 2013 14:30–16:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Erik Hurst (University of Chicago Booth)

Regional Risk Sharing Through the U.S. Mortgage Market (joint with Ben Keys, Amit Seru and Joe Vavra)

Monday, November 18 2013 14:40–16:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Nathaniel Baum-Snow (Brown)

Urban Transport Expansions, Employment Decentralization, and the Spatial Scope of Agglomeration Economies

Monday, November 25 2013 14:40–16:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Alvin Murphy (Arizona State University)

Incorporating Dynamic Behavior into the Hedonic Model (joint with Kelly Bishop)

Monday, December 2 2013 14:40–16:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Jonathan Daines Hall (Northwestern University)

Lexus Lanes and Pareto Improvements: The case for value pricing on heavily congested highways

Tuesday, January 28 2014 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Joan Monras (Columbia University)

Immigration and Wage Dynamics: Evidence from the Mexican Peso Crisis

Wednesday, February 5 2014 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Melanie Morten (Stanford)

Economic Development and the Spatial Allocation of Labor (joint with Gharad Bryan (LSE))

Wednesday, March 18 2015 16:30–17:50, Rotman, room 151

Antonio Bento (Cornell)   Cancelled

The Value of Urgency: Evidence from Congestion Pricing Experiments (joint with Kevin Roth and Andrew Waxman)

Friday, April 10 2015 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Antonio Bento (Cornell)

The Value of Urgency: Evidence from Congestion Pricing Experiments (joint with Kevin Roth and Andrew Waxman)

Friday, April 17 2015 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Jonathan Dingel (University of Chicago (Booth))

Spatial and Social Frictions in the City: Evidence from Yelp

Wednesday, September 30 2015 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 151

Ferdinand Rauch (University of Oxford)

The Benefits of Forced Experimentation: Striking Evidence from the London Underground Network (joint with Shaun Larcom and Tim Willems)

Wednesday, March 30 2016 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 147

Michel Serafinelli (Toronto)

UTM Workshop "Cities, Trade and Regional Development" Speakers: D. Atkin, J. Dittmar, C. Gaubert, J. Handbury, M. Harari, B. Javorcik

Saturday, April 30 2016 09:00–18:00, Kaneff, room L1230, UTM

Benjamin Iverson (Kellogg)

The Externalities of Bankruptcy (joint with Shai Bernstein, Emanuele Colonnelli, and Xavier Giroud)

Friday, October 28 2016 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Camilo Andres Acosta Mejia (University of Toronto)

The Impact of Zoning Policies on the Welfare and Sorting of High and Low Skill Workers

Wednesday, November 2 2016 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 151

Benjamin Keys (Wharton)

Minimum Payments and Debt Paydown in Consumer Credit Cards (joint with Jialan Wang)

Friday, November 18 2016 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Walker Hanlon (UCLA)

Estimating the Recession-Mortality Relationship when Migration Matters (joint with Vellore Arthiy, Brian Beach)

Wednesday, November 30 2016 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 151

Jos van Ommeren (VU Amsterdam)

Road congestion and public transit (joint with Martin W. Adler , Federica Liberini , Antonio Russo)

Friday, March 24 2017 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Thierry Mayer (Sciences Po)

From Micro to Macro: Demand, Supply, and Heterogeneity in the Trade Elasticity

Wednesday, March 29 2017 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Hanming Fang (University of Pennsylvania)

The Dynamics of Adjustable-Rate Subprime Mortgage Default: A Structural Estimation (joint with You S. Kim, Wenli Li)

Monday, April 24 2017 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 127

Morris Davis (Rutgers)   Cancelled

Neighborhood Choices, Neighborhood Effects and Housing Vouchers (joint with Jesse Gregory, Daniel A. Harley, and Kegon T.K. Tan)

Wednesday, October 25 2017 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 147

Amine Ouazad (HEC Montreal)

City Equilibrium with Borrowing Constraints: Structural Estimation and General Equilibrium Effects (joint with Romain Rancière)

Wednesday, November 22 2017 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 147

Jan Brueckner (University of California, Irvine)

Employer-Paid Parking, Mode Choice, and Suburbanization (joint with Sofia F. Franco)

Wednesday, November 29 2017 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1025

Richard Arnott (University of California, Riverside)

Modeling Downtown Traffic Congestion: An Economic Perspective

Wednesday, February 21 2018 16:00–17:30, Rotman, room 147

Morris A. Davis (Rutgers University)

Neighborhood Choices, Neighborhood Effects and Housing Vouchers (joint with Gregory (Wisconsin), Hartley (Chicago Fed), and Tan (Rochester))

Wednesday, April 25 2018 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 147

Joshua Gottlieb (University of British Columbia)

The Spillover Effects of Top Income Inequality (joint with Jeffrey Clemens, David Hemous)

Thursday, September 27 2018 15:00–16:30, Rotman, room 151

Stephan Heblich (University of Bristol)

Industrial clusters in the long run: Evidence from Million-Rouble plants in China (joint with Marlon Seror, Hao Xu, Yanos Zylberberg)

Monday, October 29 2018 12:00–13:30, Rotman, room 8024

Alejandro Molnar (Vanderbilt)

The marginal congestion of a taxi in New York City (joint with Daniel Mangrum)

Tuesday, October 30 2018 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 374C

Nick Kuminoff (Arizona State University)

Hazed and Confused (joint with Kelly Bishop and Jonathan Ketcham)

Monday, November 12 2018 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Jeffrey Lin (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)

Freeway Revolts! (joint with Jeffrey Brinkman)

Friday, March 8 2019 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Jessie Handbury (Wharton, UPenn)

Income Growth and the Distributional Effects of Urban Spatial Sorting (joint with Victor Couture, Cecile Gaubert, Erik Hurst)

Friday, March 22 2019 12:10–13:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Rebecca Diamond (Stanford University)

The Effects of Rent Control Expansion on Tenants, Landlords, and Inequality: Evidence from San Francisco (joint with Tim McQuade and Franklin Qian)

Tuesday, March 26 2019 16:00–17:30, Rotman, room 151

Camilo Acosta (Rotman School of Management)

Spatial Wage Differentials, Geographic Frictions and the Organization of Labor within Firms (Practice Job Talk) (joint with Ditte H. Lyngemark (University of Copenhagen))

Wednesday, October 2 2019 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Sophia (Sonia) Gilbukh (CUNY Baruch College, Zicklin School of Business)

Heterogeneous Real Estate Agents and the Housing Cycle (joint with Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham)

Tuesday, October 15 2019 10:40–12:00, Rotman, room LL1065

Natalia Ramondo (UCSD-School of Global Policy and Strategy)

Trade With Correlation (joint with Nelson Lind (Emory))

Wednesday, November 13 2019 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 147

Jason Allen (Bank of Canada)

Dynamic competition in negotiated price markets

Tuesday, November 19 2019 15:40–17:00, Rotman, room 133

Katherine R.H. Wagner (Yale University)

Adaptation and Adverse Selection in Markets for Natural Disaster Insurance

Monday, January 20 2020 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Angela Zheng (New York University)

Residential Sorting, School Choice, and Inequality

Tuesday, January 28 2020 10:40–12:00, Rotman, room 151

Aradhya Sood (University of Minnesota)

Land Market Frictions in Developing Countries: Evidence from Manufacturing Firms in India

Friday, January 31 2020 10:40–12:00, Rotman, room 151

Ana Varela Varela (Columbia University)

Surge of Inequality: How Different Neighborhoods React to Flooding

Monday, February 3 2020 10:40–12:00, Rotman, room 147

Yue Yu (Columbia University)

Land-Use Regulation and Economic Development: Evidence from the Farmland Red Line Policy in China

Tuesday, February 4 2020 02:40–04:00, Rotman, room LL1065

Matthew E. Kahn (Johns Hopkins University)   Cancelled

TBA

Friday, March 6 2020 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Enrico Moretti (University of California, Berkeley)   Cancelled

TBA

Friday, March 27 2020 15:40–17:00, Rotman, room LL1010

Diego Puga (Center for Monetary and Financial Studies (CEMFI))

Urban growth and its aggregate implications (joint with Gilles Duranton)

Friday, April 24 2020 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Ian Herzog (University of Toronto)

The City-Wide Effects of Tolling Downtown Drivers: Evidence from London’s Congestion Charge

Wednesday, September 30 2020 16:10–17:30, Online

Adrien Bilal (Harvard University)

The Geography of Unemployment

Wednesday, October 21 2020 16:10–17:30, Online

Cailin Slattery (Columbia Business School)

Bidding for Firms: Subsidy Competition in the U.S.

Tuesday, October 27 2020 14:30–16:00, Online

Guangbin Hong (University of Toronto)

Sorting, Matching and Urban Inequality

Wednesday, November 11 2020 13:00–14:00, Online

Winnie van Dijk (Harvard)

Eviction and Poverty in American Cities: Evidence from Chicago and New York

Tuesday, November 17 2020 09:40–11:00, Online

Matthew E. Kahn (Johns Hopkins University)

Adapting to Climate Change

Friday, November 20 2020 15:40–17:00, Online

Edward Kung (California State University, Northridge)

Housing Market Regulation and Labor Market Dynamism (joint with Christos A. Makridis)

Monday, November 30 2020 16:10–17:30, Online

Nick Tsivanidis (University of California at Berkeley)

Spatial Spillovers from Urban Redevelopments: Evidence from Mumbai's Textile Mills (joint with Mike Gechter)

Friday, March 26 2021 11:10–12:30, Online

Enrico Moretti (University of California, Berkeley)

Where is Standard of Living the Highest? Local Prices and the Geography of Consumption (joint with Rebecca Diamond)

Friday, April 23 2021 11:10–12:30, Online

Maisy Wong (The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)

Estimating Preferences for Neighborhood Amenities Under Imperfect Information

Tuesday, September 21 2021 14:10–15:30, Online

Gabriel Ahlfeldt (London School of Economics)

Prime Locations

Tuesday, November 2 2021 09:40–11:00, Online

Leah Boustan (Princeton University)

Political Speech about Immigration to the US is More Positive but More Polarized Than Any Time in the Past 150 Years

Friday, November 12 2021 11:10–12:30, Online

Patrick Bayer (Duke University)

Police Officer Assignment and Neighborhood Crime (joint with Bocar Ba, Nayoung Rim, Roman Rivera, and Modibo Sidibé)

Tuesday, November 16 2021 14:10–15:30, Online

Joan Monras (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Immigration and Spatial Equilibrium: the Role of Expenditures in the Country of Origin (joint with Christoph Albert)

Monday, February 7 2022 11:10–12:30, Online

Chris Severen (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)

The problem has existed over endless years: Racialized difference in commuting, 1980–2019 (joint with devin michelle bunten, Ellen Fu, and Lyndsey Rolheiser)

Tuesday, March 1 2022 14:10–15:30, Online

Kate Pennington (US Census)

Reproductive Risk Aversion and Contraceptive Choice (joint with Joanna Venator)

Tuesday, March 15 2022 14:10–15:30, Rotman, room LL1025

Marta Santamaria (University of Warwick)

Border Effects in Public procurement: the Aggregate Effects of Governments’ Home Bias (joint with Manuel García-Santana)

Wednesday, March 30 2022 11:00–12:30, Online

Charly Porcher (McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University)

A Revealed-Preference Approach to Measuring Information Frictions in Migration Decisions (joint with Eduardo Morales and Thomas Fujiwara)

Tuesday, April 5 2022 14:10–15:30, Online

Tim Mcquade (University of California Berkeley)

The 2000s Housing Cycle With 2020 Hindsight: A Neo-Kindlebergerian View

Tuesday, October 18 2022 10:10–11:30, Online

Gregor Schubert (University of California Los Angeles)

House Price Contagion and U.S. City Migration Networks

Tuesday, November 15 2022 10:10–11:30, Rotman, room 157

Matthew Turner (Brown University)

The Value of Piped Water and Sewers: Evidence from 19th Century Chicago

Tuesday, December 13 2022 10:10–11:30, Rotman, room 157

Erica Moszkowski (Harvard University)

Option Value and Storefront Vacancy in New York City (joint with Daniel Stackman (NYU))

Monday, January 9 2023 16:30–17:50, Rotman, room 157

Harrison Wheeler (University of California, Berkeley)

Locally Optimal Place-Based Policies: Evidence from Opportunity Zones

Friday, January 13 2023 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 151

Xinle Pang (Pennsylvania State University)

Moving Into Risky Floodplains: The Spatial Implication of Flood Relief Policies (joint with Pin Sun)

Thursday, February 2 2023 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Gabriel Kreindler (Harvard University)

Optimal Public Transportation Networks: Evidence from the World's Largest Bus Rapid Transit System in Jakarta

Thursday, March 2 2023 10:10–11:30, Rotman, room 157

Ingrid Gould Ellen (New York University)

Race, Space, and Take-Up: Explaining Housing Voucher Lease-Up Rates

Thursday, March 16 2023 10:10–11:30, Rotman, room 151

Cecile Gaubert (University of California Berkeley)   Cancelled

The Political Economy of Transport Investment: Evidence from the California High-Speed Rail (joint with Pablo Fajgelbaum, Nicole Gorton, Eduardo Morales and Edouard Schaal)

Thursday, March 23 2023 10:10–11:30, Online

Cecile Gaubert (University of California Berkeley)

The Political Economy of Transport Investment: Evidence from the California High-Speed Rail (joint with Pablo Fajgelbaum, Nicole Gorton, Eduardo Morales, and Edouard Schaal)

Thursday, April 6 2023 10:10–11:30, Online

Arpit Gupta (New York University Stern)

Work From Home and the Office Real Estate Apocalypse

Thursday, April 13 2023 10:10–11:30, Rotman, room 4005

Hans Koster (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

High-speed rail and the spatial distribution of economic activity: Evidence from Japan's Shinkansen (joint with Kazunobu Hayakawa, Takatoshi Tabuchi, Jacques-Francois Thisse)

Tuesday, May 16 2023 10:10–11:30, Rotman, room 4005

David Krisztian Nagy (Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional)

The Death and Life of Great British Cities (joint with Stephan Heblich, Alex Trew and Yanos Zylberberg)

Tuesday, October 3 2023 10:10–11:30, Rotman, room 147

Treb Allen (Dartmouth)

Urban Welfare: Tourism in Barcelona (joint with Simon Fuchs, Sharat Ganapati, Alberto Graziano, Rocio Madera, Judit Montoriol)

Tuesday, October 10 2023 10:00–11:20, Rotman, room 151

Klaus Desmet (Southern Methodist University)

On the Geographic Implications of Carbon Taxes

Tuesday, October 31 2023 10:10–11:30, Rotman, room 151

Alvin Murphy (Arizona State University)

Tax Policy and the Heterogeneous Costs of Homeownership

Tuesday, November 14 2023 10:10–11:30, Rotman, room 151

Adam Guren (Boston University)

The Effect of Foreclosures on Homeowners, Tenants, and Landlords (joint with Rebecca Diamond, Rose Tan)

Tuesday, December 5 2023 10:10–11:30, Rotman, room 157

Victor Couture (UBC)

Demographic Differences in Social Exposure to High-Income People (joint with Jonathan Dingel, Allison Green, Jessie Handbury)

Tuesday, February 20 2024 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1010

Sophie Calder-Wang (University of Pennsylvania)

Pricing Neighborhood Amenities: A Proxy-Based Approach

Tuesday, February 27 2024 10:10–11:30, Rotman, room 151

Allison Shertzer (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)

The Long-Run Impacts of Zoning the Suburbs

Tuesday, March 5 2024 10:10–11:30, Rotman, room 157

Fabian Eckert (University of California, San Diego)

Urban-Biased Growth: A Macroeconomic Analysis (joint with Sharat Ganapati, Conor Walsh)

Tuesday, March 12 2024 10:10–11:30, Rotman, room 157

Costas Arkolakis (Yale University)

Spatial Production Networks (joint with Federico Huneeus, Yuhei Miyauchi)

Tuesday, March 19 2024 10:10–11:30, Rotman, room 157

Elior Cohen (Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City)

Housing the Homeless

Tuesday, April 2 2024 10:10–11:30, Rotman, room 157

Michael Pflüger (Julius-Maximilians-Universität of Würzburg)

The Worth of Cities in Germany

Tuesday, April 9 2024 10:10–11:30, Rotman, room 157