Washington DC Urban Economics Day 2019

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, 2019

Schedule


8:45 Doors open. Coffee and breakfast available.
9:00 - 9:15 Introductions
9:15 - 10:00 Joe Nichols, Federal Reserve Board: “Regional Trends in Commercial and Residential Construction”
10:00 - 10:45 Luis Quintero, Johns Hopkins University: “Redevelopment and Housing Prices”, joint with Jacob Cosman
10:45 - 11:00 Break
11:00- 11:45 Raven Molloy, Federal Reserve Board: “Housing Supply and Affordability,” joint with Charles Nathanson and Andrew Paciorek
11:45 - 12:30 Michael Rodriguez, Trachtenberg School, George Washington University and CBRE: “Getting to the Office Costs: A Hedonic Model of Transit Effects on Office Rent in the Washington, DC Region”
12:30 - 1:45 Lunch: Chat with Ferdie Wong, Freddie Mac, on machine learning in collateral modeling
1:45 - 2:30 Leah Brooks, George Washington University: “Infrastructure Spending”, joint with Zach Liscow
2:30 - 3:15 Han Liu, Department of Economics, George Washington University: “Shift in Housing Price Gradients: Theory and Empirical Evidence”
3:15 - 3:30 Cookies
3:30 - 4:15 Sam Asher, World Bank: “Intergenerational Mobility in India: Estimates from New Methods and Administrative Data,” joint with Paul Novosad and Charlie Rafkin.
4:15 - 5:00 Daniel Ringo, Federal Reserve Board: “The Propagation of Demand Shocks Through Housing Markets,” joint with Elliot Anenberg

Contact Leah Brooks, lfbrooks at gwu.edu, with questions. Many thanks to this year's program committee of Jacob Cosman and Jessica Shui.

Past conferences: Urban Day 2018, Urban Day 2017, Urban Day 2016, Urban Day 2015 and Urban Day 2014.