A casual place for serious research by DC-area urban economists.
Churchill Room, Gelman Library
2130 H Street NW
George Washington University
Friday May 10, 2024
RSVP Required 72 hours in advance to enter the library.
| 8:45 | Doors open. Coffee and breakfast. |
| 9:10 - 9:20 | Introductions |
| 9:20 - 10:00 | Erica Moszkowski, Federal Reserve Board of Governors “Option Value and Storefront Vacancy” [paper] |
| 10:00 - 10:40 | Michael Navarrete, University of Maryland “Geospatial Heterogeneity in Inflation: A Market Concentration Story” [paper] |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Break |
| 11:00- 11:40 | Tony Yezer, George Washington University “Why We Still Don’t Know More About Housing Supply” [paper] |
| 11:40- 12:20 | Scott Wentland, Bureau of Economic Analysis “Returns to Homeownership and Inequality: Evidence from the First-Time Homebuyer Tax Credit” [paper] |
| 12:20 - 1:40 | Lunch and chat with DC's Chief Economist Fitzroy Lee |
| 1:40 - 2:20 | Harris Selod, World Bank “Informal Land Markets and Ethnic Kinship in Sub-Saharan African Cities” [paper] |
| 2:20 - 3:00 | Moises Yi, Bureau of the Census “Re-Assessing the Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis” [paper] |
| 3:00 - 3:20 | Break: Hopefully something to perk you up. |
| 3:20 - 4:00 | Erin Troland, Federal Reserve Board of Governors “The Role of Property Assessment Oversight in School Finance Inequality” [paper] |
Contact Leah Brooks, lfbrooks at gwu.edu, with questions. Many thanks to Tanner Regan for helping to review this year's papers.
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Past conferences: Urban Day 2023, Urban Day 2022, Urban Day 2019, Urban Day 2018, Urban Day 2017, Urban Day 2016, Urban Day 2015 and Urban Day 2014.
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