Call for Papers, NBER Urban Economics meeting, Cambridge, MA March 11, 2005

The National Bureau of Economic Research is launching a Working Group on
the Urban Economics under the direction of Edward Glaeser. The first
meeting will be held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Friday, March 11, 2005.

The working group promotes research on cities in America and across the
world. The central purpose of the group is to understand the differences
in productivity across space. The group also has a strong interest in
local government, housing markets and urban poverty, in part because these
topics are closely intertwined with the sources of urban economic success.
The group aims to empirically understand the relative importance to local
economies of agglomeration economies, natural amenities, taxes and
regulation and other sources of local advantage. The working group will
have one annual meeting which will hopefully include many of the key papers
written over the year in the area of the urban productivity.

For the working group's first meeting, the group is interested in any
papers which help us to understand differences in economic productivity
across cities and states. Work on urban growth is also warmly encouraged.
We are particularly interested in work that shows the impact of government
policies on local economic development and work on agglomeration economies
or human capital spillovers. If you are interested in presenting a paper
this year, please email a version to Edward Glaeser
<glaeser@fas.harvard.edu>. The deadline for submission is January 31

Preference is given to empirically oriented papers that have been completed
by the time of the submission. The travel and hotel costs for the authors
and discussants will be covered by the NBER.

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