Washington DC Urban Economics Day 2025

A casual place for serious research by DC-area urban economists.

GWU Textile Museum
701 21st Street NW
George Washington University
Friday May 23, 2025


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Schedule


10:15 Doors open. BYO coffee!
10:30 - 11:10 Arseniy Braslavskiy, University of Maryland
“Beyond the Flypaper Effect: Crowding-In from Federal Investment in Public Transit”
[paper]
11:10 - 11:20 Introductions
11:20 - noon Mark J. Kutzback, Gary Wagner, and C. Luke Watson
“Bank Competition for Neighborhood Deposits”
[paper]
noon - 12:40 Salim Furth, Mercatus Center, George Mason University
“Substitutability in the demand for housing over small distances”
[paper]
12:40 - 1:40 Lunch and update from federal colleagues
1:40- 2:20 Jingwen Zheng, George Washington University
“How Real Estate Responds to Regulatory Changes over the Long Run: Evidence from the Closure of Hong Kong's Downtown Airport”
[paper]
2:20- 3:00 You-Suk Kim, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
“Work-From-Home, Commercial Real Estate Risk and Credit Supply: Evidence from a Large Sample of Bank Loan Portfolios”
[paper]
3:00 - 3:15 Break: Something to perk you up.
3:15 - 4:00 Leah Brooks, George Washington University
“The Perils and Promise of Living Together: Condominiums in the Urban Landscape”

Contact Leah Brooks, lfbrooks at gwu.edu, with questions.

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Past conferences: Urban Day 2024, 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.