Past Seminars:
Urban and Regional Economics Seminar
This seminar series has now closed
22 March 2013
13:00
- 14:30
Tax Reform and Sprawl
Tom Davidoff
(Saudner School of Business, British Columbia)
Location:
32L 1.04
1st Floor Conference Room, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields
15 March 2013
11:30
- 13:00
Joint SERC & Labour Seminar
How Parents Influence the Wealth of Their Children
Todd Sinai
(Wharton School)
Location:
32L 1.04
1st Floor Conference Room, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields
08 March 2013
11:30
- 13:00
JOINT LABOUR/SERC SEMINAR
Workplace Heterogeneity and the Rise of West German Wage Inequality
Pat Kline
(UC Berkeley)
Location:
32L 1.04
1st Floor Conference Room, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields
01 March 2013
13:00
- 14:30
Spatial Sorting
Kurt Schmidheiny
(University of Basel)
Location:
32L 1.04
1st Floor Conference Room, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields
22 February 2013
13:00
- 14:30
Fiscal Equalization and Capitalisation: Evidence from policy reform
Wouter Vermeulen
(VU University & CPB)
Location:
32L 1.04
1st Floor Conference Room, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields
15 February 2013
13:00
- 14:30
Quality, student satisfaction and university choice: Evidence from the Times Good University Guide and National Student Survey
Steve Gibbons
(CEP, SERC & LSE)
Location:
32L 1.04
1st Floor Conference Room, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields
08 February 2013
13:00
- 14:30
Urban Escalators and Inter-Regional Elevators: Is geographic mobility the key to career progression,
or just being in the right place (or the right sector)?
Ian Gordon
(LSE)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
01 February 2013
13:00
- 14:30
That’s What We Paid for It
The Spell of the Home Purchase Price through the Centuries
Piet Eichholtz
(Maastricht University)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
25 January 2013
13:00
- 14:30
The effects of unemployment benefits on migration in lagging regions
Jordi Jofre-Monseny
(University of Barcelona)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
18 January 2013
13:00
- 14:30
On the Spatial Economic Impact of Global Warming
Klaus Desmet
(Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
14 December 2012
13:00
- 14:30
The Effects of Public Employment:
Evidence from Bonn
Sascha Becker
(University of Warwick)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
07 December 2012
13:00
- 14:30
A life aquatic: flood risk and the Dutch housing market
Maarten Bosker
(Erasmus University, Rotterdam)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
30 November 2012
13:00
- 14:30
Entrepeneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines
William Kerr
(Harvard Business School)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
23 November 2012
11:30
- 13:00
New Media, Business, and Growth: European Cities After Gutenberg
Jeremiah Dittmar
(IAS, Princeton)
, joint with SERC Seminar
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
16 November 2012
13:00
- 14:30
Asymmetric Agglomeration: Do All Industries Agglomerate for The Same Reasons?
Olmo Silva
(LSE, SERC & CEP)
, joint with Giulia Faggio
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
09 November 2012
13:00
- 14:30
No seminar
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
02 November 2012
13:00
- 14:30
E-Lections: Voting Behavior and the Internet
Oliver Falck
(CESIfo-Munich)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
26 October 2012
13:00
- 14:30
Metropolitan Land Values and Housing Productivity
David Albouy
(Michigan)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
19 October 2012
13:00
- 14:30
Place-Based Programs and the Geographic Dispersion of Employment
Matt Freedman
(Cornell University)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
12 October 2012
13:00
- 14:30
Urban wage premium and the role of education: Identification of agglomeration effects in Norway
Jorn Rattso
(NTNU, Norway)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
16 March 2012
13:00
- 14:30
Agglomeration and Racial Segregation in Workplace Networks
Steve Ross
(University of Connecticut)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
09 March 2012
13:00
- 14:30
The Size Distribution across all Cities: A Unifying Approach
Jens Suedekum
(University of Duisburg-Essen)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
02 March 2012
13:00
- 14:30
The Differential Effects of Trade Liberalisation on Large and Small Towns: Theory and Evidence
Frédéric Robert-Nicoud
(University of Geneva)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
24 February 2012
13:00
- 14:30
Upscale Neighbourhoods: Historic Amenities, Income and Spatial Sorting of Households
Hans Koster
(VU University of Amsterdam, SERC)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
17 February 2012
13:00
- 14:30
Stamp duty and household mobility: Regression discontinuity evidence from the UK
Teemu Lyytikainen
(VATT/SERC)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
10 February 2012
13:00
- 14:30
Standard time and solar time: impacts on residential electricity consumption
Felix Weinhardt
(CEP & LSE)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
03 February 2012
13:00
- 14:30
On the Lumpiness of Space
Giordano Mion
(CEP,SERC & LSE)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
27 January 2012
13:15
- 14:45
Do Households Use Homeownership To Insure Themselves? Evidence Across U.S. Cities
Jonathan Halket
(Essex)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
20 January 2012
13:00
- 14:30
The Economics of Density: Evidence from the Berlin Wall
Daniel Sturm
(CEP)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
18 January 2012
13:00
- 14:30
TBA
Klaus Desmet
(Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
13 January 2012
13:00
- 14:30
The Location of the British Cotton Textiles Industry in 1838
Nicholas Craft
(Warwick)
, joint with Niko Wolf (Humboldt University)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
09 December 2011
13:00
- 14:30
Net city: How co-invention networks shape inventive productivity in US cities
Stefano Breschi
(Bocconi University)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
05 December 2011
14:00
- 15:30
Subprime Mortgages and the Housing Bubble
Jan Breuckner
(UC Irvine)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
02 December 2011
13:00
- 14:30
Firms Size and Judicial Efficiency in Italy: Evidence from the Neighbour's Tribunal
Carlo Menon
(Bank of Italy)
, joint with Silvia Giacomelli
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
25 November 2011
13:00
- 14:30
Urban Transport Expansions, Employment Decentralization, and the Spatial Scope of Agglomeration Economies
Nate Baum-Snow
(Brown University)
Location:
CLM 4.02
4th Floor, Clement House, Aldwych, London, WC2B 4JF
18 November 2011
13:00
- 14:30
Coalition Formation and Political Decision Making: Evidence from Finnish Municipal Mergers
Tuukka Saarimaa
(VATT & SERC)
, joint with Janne Tukiainen
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
04 November 2011
13:00
- 14:30
Anatomy of the beginning of the housing boom: US Neighborhoods and Metropolitan areas, 1993-2009
Joe Gyourko
(Wharton School UPenn)
Location:
NAB 1.07
1st Floor, New Academic Building, Lincolns Inn Fields
28 October 2011
13:00
- 14:30
Does regional infrastructure investment stimulate extra housing and commercial building supply? Long-run evidence across the English regions
Anupam Nanda
(University of Reading)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
21 October 2011
13:00
- 14:30
Proximity in university-industry research collaborations
Simona Iammarino
(LSE)
Location:
NAB 1.07
1st Floor, New Academic Building, Lincolns Inn Fields
14 October 2011
13:00
- 14:30
Agglomeration economies in academic research
Pierre-Philippe Combes
(Aix-Marseille School of Economics)
, joint with Clément Bosquet
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
07 October 2011
13:00
- 14:30
Using Incentives to Manage Growth: An Assessment of Maryland’s Smart Growth Program
Gerrit Knaap
(University of Maryland & Visitor, University College Dublin)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
25 March 2011
13:00
- 14:30
Cities and Worker Interactions
Guy Michaels
(LSE & CEP)
, joint with Ferdinand Rauch and Stephen Redding
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
18 March 2011
13:00
- 14:30
Agglomeration externalities in the Netherlands. Micro evidence from wages and land rents
Henri de Groot
(VU University of Amsterdam)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
11 March 2011
13:00
- 14:30
Coagglomeration
Will Strange
(University of Toronto)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
04 March 2011
13:00
- 14:30
Mixed Urban Land Use
Jan Rouwendal
(VU University of Amsterdam and Tinbergen Institute)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
25 February 2011
13:00
- 14:30
How Wages and Employment Adjust to Trade Liberalization: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Austria
Marius Bruelhart
(University of Lausanne)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
18 February 2011
13:00
- 14:30
The Effect of Government Subsidies on Private R&D: Evidence from the ERDF Population-Density Rule
Elias Einio
(SERC & LSE)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
11 February 2011
13:00
- 14:30
Hedonic Prices and Implicit Markets: Consistently Estimating the Marginal Willingness to Pay for Differentiated Products Without Instruments
Chris Timmins
(Duke University)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
04 February 2011
13:00
- 14:30
Regional systems of innovation and value chains: An empirical assessment of the investment strategies of multinational corporations in Europe
Riccardo Crescenzi
(LSE)
, joint with Carlo Pietrobelli (IADB) and Roberta Rabellotti (Univ Piemonte Orientale)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
28 January 2011
13:00
- 14:30
The geography of Housing Market Areas in England: new analyses
Mike Coombes
(Newcastle University)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
21 January 2011
13:00
- 14:30
The Costs of Agglomeration: Land Prices in French Cities
Laurent Gobillon
(INED Paris)
, joint with Pierre-Philippe Combes (GREQAM, University of Aix-Marseille) and Gilles Duranton (University of Toronto)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
14 January 2011
13:00
- 14:30
Real Earnings Disparities in Britain
Steve Gibbons
(CEP, SERC & LSE)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
10 December 2010
13:00
- 14:30
Entrepreneurial Sorting: Facts and Determinants (joint with G. Faggio)
Olmo Silva
(LSE, SERC & CEP)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
03 December 2010
13:00
- 14:30
Speak your weight: endogenous structure of spatial dependence
Vassilis Monastiriotis
(LSE)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
26 November 2010
13:00
- 14:30
Spatial Frictions
Kristian Behrens
(UQAM)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
19 November 2010
13:00
- 14:30
Does Gibrat's Law hold for all times and in all places? A study of the growth of British Cities prior to 1913
Tim Leunig
(LSE)
, joint with Alex Klein
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
12 November 2010
13:00
- 14:30
Geo Concentration, Observational Equivalence and Industrial Agglomeration
Colin Wren
(Newcastle University)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
05 November 2010
13:00
- 14:30
Choose the Neighbour Before the House: Agglomeration Externalities in UK Science Parks
Christian Helmers
(Oxford & LSE)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
29 October 2010
13:00
- 14:30
Relative Accessibility and Regional Growth
Dirk Stelder
(University of Groningen)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
22 October 2010
11:30
- 13:00
JOINT LABOUR/SERC Seminar: Does Gender Matter for Political Leadership? The Case of U.S. Mayors
Fernando Ferreira
(Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
15 October 2010
13:00
- 14:30
Dwindling U.S. Internal Migration: Evidence of a Spatial Equilibrium?
Mark Partridge
(Ohio State)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
08 October 2010
13:00
- 14:30
Are compact cities environmentally friendly?
Jacques Thisse
(CORE UC Louvain, PSE & CEPR)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
19 March 2010
13:00
- 14:30
SEMINAR CANCELLED - NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK
Christopher Stanton
(Utah)
Location:
Venue to be Confirmed
12 March 2010
13:00
- 14:30
Spatial Asset Pricing: A First Step
Francois Ortalo-Magne
(Wisconsin University)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
05 March 2010
13:00
- 14:30
The long shadow of
history: European regions
Giordano Mion
(CEP,SERC & LSE)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
26 February 2010
13:00
- 14:30
Supply constraints and house price dynamics
Wouter Vermeulen
(VU University & CPB)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
19 February 2010
13:00
- 14:30
Tax competition among local governments: Evidence from property taxation in Finland
Teemu Lyytikainen
(VATT/SERC)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
12 February 2010
13:00
- 14:30
From Periphery to Core: Economic Adjustments to High Speed Rail
Gabriel Ahlfeldt
(LSE)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
05 February 2010
13:00
- 14:30
Do Oil Windfalls Improve Standards? Evidence from Brazil
Guy Michaels
(LSE & CEP)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
29 January 2010
13:00
- 14:30
Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs
Gianmarco Ottaviano
(Bocconi University)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
22 January 2010
13:00
- 14:30
Social Housing Magnets: the impact of social housing on immigrants' location in France
Gregory Verdugo
(Banque de France)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
15 January 2010
13:00
- 14:30
How do regions diversify over time? The importance of industry relatedness in developing new growth paths in regions
Ron Boschma
(University of Utrecht)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
11 December 2009
11:30
- 13:00
JOINT CEP LABOUR SEMINAR: Rethinking the area approach - immigrants and the labour market in California, 1960-2005
Giovanni Peri
(University of California Davis)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
04 December 2009
13:00
- 14:30
The effect of immigration on ethnic composition and occupational reallocation
Todd Sorensen
(UC Riverdale)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
27 November 2009
13:00
- 14:30
Knowledge flows through FDI: the case of privatisations in Central & Eastern Europe
Christian Fons-Rosen
(UPF Barcelona & CEP)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
20 November 2009
13:00
- 14:30
Does hospital competition save lives? Evidence from the recent NHS choice reforms
Steve Gibbons
(CEP, SERC & LSE)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
13 November 2009
13:00
- 14:30
Price and Transactions in the Dutch Housing Market
Peter Englund
(Stockholm School of Economics)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
06 November 2009
13:00
- 14:30
Moving in to the projects: social housing neighbourhoods and school performance in England
Felix Weinhardt
(CEP & LSE)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
30 October 2009
11:30
- 13:00
JOINT CEE EDUCATION SEMINAR - Separate When Equal? Racial Inequality and Residential Segregation
Robert McMillan
(University of Toronto)
, joint with Patrick Bayer (Duke) and Hanming Fang (Pennsylvania)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
23 October 2009
13:00
- 14:30
Sequential city growth: Empirical evidence
David Cuberes
(Clemson University & Royal Holloway)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
16 October 2009
13:00
- 14:30
The spatial selection of heterogeneous firms
Jacques Thisse
(CORE UC Louvain, PSE & CEPR)
, joint with Toshihiro Okubo & Pierre M. Picard
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
09 October 2009
13:00
- 14:30
The Long Run Impact of Subsidizing Commercial Space in Deprived Neighbourhoods
Matti Sarvimaki
(SERC, LSE)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
20 March 2009
13:00
- 14:30
School or Work or Both? The Impact of the National Minimum
Wage on the Activities of Young People
Patricia Rice
(Oxford University & SERC)
Location:
NAB 2.06
2nd Floor, New Academic Building, Lincolns Inn Fields
13 March 2009
13:00
- 14:30
SEMINAR CANCELLED
Erlend Berg (LSE) and Sanchari Roy
(LSE)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
06 March 2009
13:00
- 14:30
Aid and Village Institutions: After the Tsunami in Aceh
J Vernon Henderson
(Brown University)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
27 February 2009
13:00
- 14:30
Local economic conditions and the nature of new housing supply
Christian Hilber
(LSE & SERC)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
20 February 2009
13:00
- 14:30
City region governance, policy variation and economic performance
Paul Steeples
(CEP, SERC & LSE)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
13 February 2009
13:00
- 14:30
Is angular closeness and betweness measuring spatial agglomeration, congestion?
Alain Chiaradia
(Space Syntax)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
06 February 2009
13:00
- 14:30
Simulating spatial variations in wages and prices using the NEG
Bernard Fingleton
(University of Strathclyde & SERC)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
30 January 2009
13:00
- 14:30
Survival of the fittest in cities: agglomeration, selection and polarisation
Frédéric Robert-Nicoud
(University of Geneva & SERC)
, joint with Kristian Behrens
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
23 January 2009
13:00
- 14:30
Why nice neighbourhoods cost more: the implications for cities, citizens and welfare
Paul Cheshire
(SERC & LSE)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
16 January 2009
13:00
- 14:30
Firms' Location under Taste and Demand Heterogeneity
Pierre Picard
(University of Luxembourg)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
12 December 2008
13:00
- 14:30
Geography of vacancies, demand pressure and structural unemployment in England
Ian Gordon
(LSE)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
05 December 2008
13:00
- 14:30
New Economic Geography Meets Chinese Data: The Equilibrium Allocation of Economic Activity for China
Harry Garretsen
(Utrecht University)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
28 November 2008
13:00
- 14:30
Railways and the Raj: The economic impact of transportation infrastructure
Dave Donaldson
(MIT)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
14 November 2008
13:00
- 14:30
Spillover and backward linkage effects of FDI
Richard Harris
(Glasgow University)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
07 November 2008
13:00
- 14:30
English Regional Housing Dynamics: Intra or Inter Regional Adjustment?
Geoff Meen
(Reading University)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
31 October 2008
13:00
- 14:30
The escalator region hypothesis and the regional cities of England: a research agenda
Tony Champion
(Newcastle University)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
24 October 2008
13:00
- 14:30
What Causes Spatial Variations in Economic Development in the United States?
JunJie Wu
(Oregan State University & Cambridge)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
22 October 2008
16:30
- 18:00
JOINT SERC / INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS SEMINAR - Productivity, Quality and Exporting Behavior Under Minimum Quality Requirements
Juan Carlos Hallak
(San Andres)
Location:
Venue to be Confirmed
17 October 2008
13:00
- 14:30
Access, choice and participation in Higher Education
Steve Gibbons
(CEP, SERC & LSE)
, joint with Anna Vignoles (IoE & CEE)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
10 October 2008
13:00
- 14:30
Infrastructure endowment and investment as determinants of regional growth in the European Union
Andres Rodriguez-Pose
(LSE)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
12 March 2008
13:00
- 14:30
Geographic proximity and firm-university innovation linkages
Helen Simpson
(Bristol University)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
05 March 2008
13:00
- 14:30
Vacancy rates, demand-pressure and structural unemployment in English labour market areas
Ian Gordon
(LSE)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
27 February 2008
13:00
- 14:30
Demographics, human capital and the demand for housing
Piet Eichholtz
(Maastricht University)
, joint with Thies Lindenthal (Maastricht University)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
19 February 2008
13:00
- 14:30
Diversity, gowth and stability in US metropolitan areas
Jurgen Essletzbichler
(UCL)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
13 February 2008
13:00
- 14:30
Labour pooling as a source of agglomeration: an empirical investigation
Diego Puga
(CEMFI)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
14 March 2007
15:30
- 17:00
Housing market dynamics and regional migration in Britain
John Muellbauer
(Oxford University)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
28 February 2007
15:30
- 17:00
Spatial Growth and industry age
Klaus Desmet
(Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
21 February 2007
15:30
- 17:00
Urbanisation
Guy Michaels
(LSE & CEP)
, joint with Steve Redding
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
31 January 2007
15:30
- 17:00
Industrial location: a harmonisation of two natures
Pierre Picard
(University of Luxembourg)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
![[pdf]](/images/pdf.gif){kind=small}