Chicago-Princeton Conference on Spatial Economics
This conference aimed to attract the most novel and interesting work in Spatial Economics and to foster interactions between economists working in all areas that incorporate the analysis of economic activity across space. These areas typically, but not exclusively, include international trade, labor economics, environmental economics, macroeconomics, industrial organization and urban economics.
Agenda
Breakfast
Where is Standard of Living the Highest? Local Prices and the Geography of Consumption
Rebecca Diamond, Stanford University (Presenter)
Enrico Moretti, University of California, Berkeley (Co-author)
Break
Identifying Agglomeration Shadows: Long-run Evidence from Ancient Ports
Richard Hornbeck, University of Chicago (Presenter)
Guy Michaels, London School of Economics (Co-author)
Ferdinand Rauch, University of Heidelberg (Co-author)
Break
Did the Rise of the US South Deindustrialize the US North?
Gordon Hanson, Harvard University (Presenter)
René Livas, Harvard University (Co-author)
Lunch
First Floor Dining Room
Neighborhood Effects: Evidence from Wartime Destruction in London
Stephen J. Redding, Princeton University (Presenter)
Daniel M. Sturm, London School of Economics (Co-author)
Break
Optimal Urban Transportation Policy: Evidence from Chicago
Milena Almagro, University of Chicago (Presenter)
Juan Camilo Castillo, University of Pennsylvania (Co-author)
Nathaniel Hickok, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Co-author)
Felipe Kup, University of Pennsylvania (Co-author)
Tobias Salz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Co-author)
Break
PM Snacks Served
On the Spatial Determinants of Educational Access
Francesco Agostinelli, University of Pennsylvania (Co-author)
Margaux Luflade, University of Pennsylvania (Co-author)
Paolo Martellini, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Presenter)
Breakfast
Consumer Search and Firm Location: Theory and Evidence from the Garment Sector in Uganda
Anna Vitali, University College London (Presenter)
Break
AM Snacks Served
Sea Level Rise and Urban Adaptation in Jakarta
Allan Hsiao, Princeton University (Presenter)
Break
Anticipating Climate Change Across the United States
Adrien Bilal, Harvard University (Presenter)
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, University of Chicago (Co-author)
Lunch
First Floor Dining Room