A casual place for serious research by DC-area urban economists.
Churchill Room, Gelman Library
2130 H Street NW
George Washington University
May 11, 2018
| 8:45 | Doors open. Coffee and breakfast available. |
| 9:00 - 9:15 | Introductions |
| 9:15 - 10:00 | Emek Basker: “Competition, Productivity, and Survival of Grocery Stores in the Great Depression”, joint with Chris Vickers and Nicholas Ziebarth. [paper] |
| 10:00 - 10:45 | Bryan Stuart, Department of Economics, George Washington University: “The Effect of Social Connectedness on Crime: Evidence from the Great Migration”, joint with Evan Taylor [paper] |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Break |
| 11:00- 11:45 | Kevin Park, Office of Policy Development and Research, HUD: “Housing Choice Under Borrowing Constraints” [paper] |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Sergei Koulayev, Office of Research, CFPB: “No Shopping in the US Mortgage Market: Direct and Strategic Effects of Providing Information,” joint with Alexei Alexandrov [paper] [slides] |
| 12:30 - 1:45 | Lunch: Chat with Harry Bergmann, Data Tools Fellow, US Department of Energy, on a universal building ID |
| 1:45 - 2:30 | Jeff Lin, Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank: “Freeway Revolts!”, joint with Jeffrey Brinkman [paper] [slides] |
| 2:30 - 3:15 | Mark Roberts, World Bank: “Explaining Spatial Variation in Productivity: Evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean,” joint with Luis E. Quintero, Johns Hopkins University |
| 3:15 - 3:30 | Cookies |
| 3:30 - 4:15 | Remi Jedwab and Tony Yezer, Department of Economics, George Washington University: “Modern Urban Technology and the Future of the Urban Giants,” joint with Prakash Loungani. no paper |
Contact Leah Brooks, lfbrooks at gwu.edu, with questions.
Past conferences: Urban Day 2017, Urban Day 2016, Urban Day 2015 and Urban Day 2014.
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