Diego Puga (University of Toronto)

From sectoral to functional urban specialisation

Angela No (University of Toronto)

Technology uptake: The role of agglomeration

Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (Chicago)

Optimal Urban Land Use and Zoning

Edward L. Glaeser (Harvard)

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

Meric Gertler (University of Toronto)

Tacit Knowledge and the Economic Geography of Context

Patrick Bayer (Yale University)

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

Pierre-Philippe Combes (Boston University)

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

Tom Holmes (Minnesota)

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

Randal Walsh (University of Colorado)

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

Will Strange (University of Toronto)

The Urban Rat Race

Diego Puga (University of Toronto)

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

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)

Tom Davidoff (UC Berkeley)

Home Prices Grow Where Location Matters

Maria M Ferreyra (Carnegie Melllon)

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

Albert Saiz (Wharton)

City Beautiful

Tomoya Mori (University of Kyoto)

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

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.)

Pat Bayer (Duke)

cancelled

Guy Michaels (LSE)

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

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)

Victor Couture (University of Toronto)

A mechanism for knowledge transfers in cities

Lu Han (University of Toronto)

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

Marcello Pagnini (Bank of Italy (visiting UoT))

Agglomeration and selection effects in local markets

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

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

Alex Pfaff (Duke)

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

Nathan Wozny (Princeton University)

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

Enrico Moretti (U.C. Berkeley)

Real Wage Inequality

Gilles Duranton (University of Toronto)

California Dreamin’: The feeble case for cluster policies

Abdullah Yavas (University of Wisconsin)

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

David Albouy (University of Michigan)

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

Morris Davis (University of Wisconsin)

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

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

Lunch will be provided

Dave Donaldson (MIT)

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

Erik Hurst (University of Chicago Booth)

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

Nathaniel Baum-Snow (Brown)

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

Alvin Murphy (Arizona State University)

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

Jonathan Daines Hall (Northwestern University)

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

Joan Monras (Columbia University)

Immigration and Wage Dynamics: Evidence from the Mexican Peso Crisis

Melanie Morten (Stanford)

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

Antonio Bento (Cornell)   Cancelled

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

Antonio Bento (Cornell)

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

Jonathan Dingel (University of Chicago (Booth))

Spatial and Social Frictions in the City: Evidence from Yelp

Ferdinand Rauch (University of Oxford)

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

Michel Serafinelli (Toronto)

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

Benjamin Iverson (Kellogg)

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

Camilo Andres Acosta Mejia (University of Toronto)

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

Benjamin Keys (Wharton)

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

Walker Hanlon (UCLA)

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

Jos van Ommeren (VU Amsterdam)

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

Thierry Mayer (Sciences Po)

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

Hanming Fang (University of Pennsylvania)

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

Morris Davis (Rutgers)   Cancelled

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

Amine Ouazad (HEC Montreal)

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

Jan Brueckner (University of California, Irvine)

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

Richard Arnott (University of California, Riverside)

Modeling Downtown Traffic Congestion: An Economic Perspective

Morris A. Davis (Rutgers University)

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

Joshua Gottlieb (University of British Columbia)

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

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)

Alejandro Molnar (Vanderbilt)

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

Nick Kuminoff (Arizona State University)

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

Jeffrey Lin (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)

Freeway Revolts! (joint with Jeffrey Brinkman)

Jessie Handbury (Wharton, UPenn)

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

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)

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))

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

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

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

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

Jason Allen (Bank of Canada)

Dynamic competition in negotiated price markets

Katherine R.H. Wagner (Yale University)

Adaptation and Adverse Selection in Markets for Natural Disaster Insurance

Angela Zheng (New York University)

Residential Sorting, School Choice, and Inequality

Aradhya Sood (University of Minnesota)

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

Ana Varela Varela (Columbia University)

Surge of Inequality: How Different Neighborhoods React to Flooding

Yue Yu (Columbia University)

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

Matthew E. Kahn (Johns Hopkins University)   Cancelled

TBA

Enrico Moretti (University of California, Berkeley)   Cancelled

TBA

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

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

Ian Herzog (University of Toronto)

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

Adrien Bilal (Harvard University)

The Geography of Unemployment

Cailin Slattery (Columbia Business School)

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

Guangbin Hong (University of Toronto)

Sorting, Matching and Urban Inequality

Winnie van Dijk (Harvard)

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

Matthew E. Kahn (Johns Hopkins University)

Adapting to Climate Change

Edward Kung (California State University, Northridge)

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

Nick Tsivanidis (University of California at Berkeley)

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

Enrico Moretti (University of California, Berkeley)

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

Maisy Wong (The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)

Estimating Preferences for Neighborhood Amenities Under Imperfect Information

Gabriel Ahlfeldt (London School of Economics)

Prime Locations

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

Patrick Bayer (Duke University)

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

Joan Monras (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

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

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)

Kate Pennington (US Census)

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

Marta Santamaria (University of Warwick)

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

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)

Tim Mcquade (University of California Berkeley)

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

Gregor Schubert (University of California Los Angeles)

House Price Contagion and U.S. City Migration Networks

Matthew Turner (Brown University)

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

Erica Moszkowski (Harvard University)

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

Harrison Wheeler (University of California, Berkeley)

Locally Optimal Place-Based Policies: Evidence from Opportunity Zones

Xinle Pang (Pennsylvania State University)

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

Gabriel Kreindler (Harvard University)

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

Ingrid Gould Ellen (New York University)

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

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)

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)

Arpit Gupta (New York University Stern)

Work From Home and the Office Real Estate Apocalypse

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)

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)

Treb Allen (Dartmouth)

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

Klaus Desmet (Southern Methodist University)

On the Geographic Implications of Carbon Taxes

Alvin Murphy (Arizona State University)

Tax Policy and the Heterogeneous Costs of Homeownership

Adam Guren (Boston University)

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

Victor Couture (UBC)

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

Sophie Calder-Wang (University of Pennsylvania)

Pricing Neighborhood Amenities: A Proxy-Based Approach

Allison Shertzer (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)

The Long-Run Impacts of Zoning the Suburbs

Fabian Eckert (University of California, San Diego)

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

Costas Arkolakis (Yale University)

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

Elior Cohen (Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City)

Housing the Homeless

Michael Pflüger (Julius-Maximilians-Universität of Würzburg)

The Worth of Cities in Germany

Nina Harari (The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)

Residential patterns and Local Public Goods in Urban Brazil

Angela Wyse (Dartmouth College)

Homelessness and the Persistence of Deprivation: Income, Employment, and Safety Net Participation

Jan Brueckner (University of California, Irvine)

Work-from-Home and Cities: An Elementary Spatial Model

Dave Donaldson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Persistence and Path Dependence in the Spatial Economy

Sitian Liu (Queen's University)   Cancelled

Productivity Differences and Government Rent-Seeking (joint with Yichen Su)

Remi Jedwab (George Washington University)

The American (Housing) Dream? U.S. vs. Worldwide Construction Patterns in Global Volume Data (joint with Jason Barr)

Sitian Liu (Queen's University)

Productivity Differences and Government Rent-Seeking (joint with Yichen Su)

Daniel Sturm (London School of Economics)

The Geography of Life: Evidence from Copenhagen (joint with Gabriel M. Ahlfeldt, Ismir Mulalic, Caterina Soto-Vieira)

Allan Hsiao (Stanford University)

Sea Level Rise and Urban Adaptation in Jakarta

Andrii Parkhomenko (University of Southern California)

Dynamic Urban Economics (joint with Brian Greaney, Stijn Van Niewerburgh)

Evan Soltas (Princeton University)

Tax Incentives and the Supply of Low-Income Housing

Matthew Freedman (UC Irvine)

The Direct and Local Spillover Effects of Subsidized Housing Investment: Evidence from a Tax Credit Lottery (joint with Wyatt Clarke and Idil Tanrisever)

Sebastian Siegloch (University of Cologne)

Welfare Effects of Property Taxation (joint with Max Löffler)