NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Urban Economics Working Group Meeting

Edward Glaeser, Organizer

March 11, 2005

NBER

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

THURSDAY, MARCH 10:

7:00 PM Group Dinner

Davio's at the Royal Sonesta Hotel

FRIDAY, MARCH 11:

7:45 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Massachusetts Avenue

8:00 AM Continental Breakfast

8:30 AM J. VERNON HENDERSON, Brown University and NBER

ANTHONY VENABLES, London School of Economics

The Dynamics of City Formation: Finance and Governance

Discussant: JOSE SCHEINKMAN, Princeton University

9:15 AM JOEL WALDFOGEL, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

The Median Voter and the Median Consumer: Local Private Goods and Residential Sorting

Discussant: YANNIS IOANNIDES, Tufts University

10:00 AM Break

10:15 AM GILLES DURANTON and HENRY OVERMAN, London School of Economics

LAURENT GOBILLON, Institut National d'Etudes Demographiques

Does Local Taxation Affect Business Decisions?

Discussant: THOMAS HOLMES, University of Minnesota and NBER

11:00 AM STUART ROSENTHAL, Syracuse University

WILLIAM STRANGE, University of Toronto

The Attenuation of the Agglomeration Economies: A Manhattan Skyline Approach

Discussant: DENISE DIPASQUALE, City Research

11:45 AM MICHAEL GREENSTONE, MIT and NBER

JUSTIN GALLAGHER, MIT

Does Hazardous Waste Matter?

Evidence from the Housing Market and the Superfund Program

Discussant: JOSEPH GYOURKO, University of Pennsylvania

12:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM ESTEBAN ROSSI-HANSBERG, Stanford University

PIERRE-DANIEL SARTE and RAYMOND OWENS, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

Urban Growth and the Location of Economic Activity in Cities

Discussant: GLENN ELLISON, MIT and NBER

2:15 PM SANGHOON LEE, University of Minnesota

Ability Sorting and Consumer City

Discussant: EDWARD GLAESER, Harvard University and NBER

3:00 PM Break

3:15 PM KAREN KOPECKY and MING HON SUEN, University of Rochester

Suburbanization and the Automobile

Discussant: MATTHEW KAHN, Tufts University

4:00 PM NATHANIEL BAUM-SNOW, University of Chicago

The Effects of Changes in the Transportation Infrastructure on Suburbanization:

Evidence from the Construction of the Interstate Highway System

Discussant: RAVEN SAKS, Harvard University

4:45 PM Adjourn

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