INFER Workshop in Urban and Regional Economics

Program

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 INFER Workshop in Urban and Regional Economics</h1>

 September 4th 2014

 Sala de Graus (Faculty of Business and Economics, URV)

 08:45 – 09:00    Registration       

 09:00 – 09:15    Welcome Address

 09:15 – 10:30    Invited Lecture: Professor Philip McCann (University of Groningen)

 10:30 – 10:45    Coffee break

 10:45 – 12:45    Session 1 “Spatial Methodologies”

 12:45 – 14:00    Lunch (Faculty of Business and Economics, URV)

 14:00 – 16:00    Session 2 “Firm Dynamics”

 16:00 – 16:15    Coffee break

 16:15 – 17:15    Session 3 “Agglomeration Economies”

 20:00                Dinner at Restaurant El Círcol

  

 September 5th 2014

 Sala de Graus (Faculty of Business and Economics, URV)

 09:00 – 10:30    Session 4 “Knowledge Dynamics”

 10:30 – 10:45    Coffee break

 10:45 – 12:00    Invited Lecture: Professor Andrés Rodríguez-Pose (London School of Economics)

 12:00 – 13:30    Session 5 “Labour Market and Innovation”

 13:30 – 14:30    Lunch (Faculty of Business and Economics, URV)

 14:30 – 15:30    Session 6 “Housing and Migration”

 15:30 – 15:45    Coffee break

 15:45 – 17:15    Session 7 “Environmental Issues”

 17:15                Farewell

  

  

 September 4th 2014

  

 08:45 – 09:00    Registration    

 09:00 – 09:15    Welcome Address

   Jan Van Hove (INFER chair)

   Bernd Theilen (CREIP chair)

   Josep-Maria Arauzo-Carod & Miguel Manjón-Antolín (CREIP & URV)

 09:15 – 10:30    “Regional Development in Europe: Interactions between Economic Geography, Institutions and Policy” Invited Lecture: Philip McCann (University of Groningen)

 10:30 – 10:45    Coffee break

 10:45 – 12:45    Session 1 “Spatial Methodologies”

                           Chair: Philip McCann

   “Spatial econometrics, Nonlinearities, Semiparametric models” (Roberto Basile, María Durbán, Román Mínguez, Jose  María Montero, Jesús Mur)

   Discussant: Stefano Magrini

  

 “A W matrix that evolves. The case of the Spanish regional unemployment”

 (Ana Angulo, Peter Burridge, Jesús Mur)

 Discussant: Roberto Basile

  

 “Regionalising to analyse the role of regionalism in gravity models: A solution to the endogeneity problem of RHS variables at country-level”

 (Laura Márquez Ramos)

 Discussant: Jesús Mur

  

 “Spatial Distribution Dynamics”

 (Margherita Gerolimetto, Stefano Magrini)

 Discussant: Laura Márquez Ramos

  

 12:45 – 14:00    Lunch (Faculty of Business and Economics, URV)

 14:00 – 16:00    Session 2 “Firm Dynamics”

                             Chair: Josep-Maria Arauzo-Carod

  

              “Relocating R&D Facilities Just Around the Corner?”

 (Josep-Maria Arauzo-Carod, Miguel Manjón-Antolín, Oscar Martínez)        

 Discussant: Félix Modrego

  

 “The influence of spatial variables on plant survival”

 (Isabel Mota, Pedro Campos, Margarida Ribeiro)

 Discussant: Oscar Martínez

  

 “Big Plant Closures and Agglomeration Economies”

 (Jordi Jofre-Monseny, María Sánchez-Vidal, Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal)

 Discussant: Isabel Mota

  

 “Location and entrepreneurship in Chile: insights from a spatially-explicit occupational choice model”

 (Félix Modrego, Philip McCann, William E. Foster and M. Rose Olfert)

 Discussant: María Sánchez-Vidal

  

 16:00 – 16:15    Coffee break

 16:15 – 17:15    Session 3 “Agglomeration Economies” 

                             Chair: Miguel Manjón-Antolín

  

 “Malthus living in a slum: Urban concentration, infraestructures and economic growth”

 (David Castells Quintana)

 Discussant: Alexander C. Lembcke

  

 “What Makes Cities More Productive? Evidence on the Role of Urban Governance from Five OECD Countries”

 (Rudiger Ahrend, Emily Farchy, Ioannis Kaplanis, Alexander C. Lembcke)

 Discussant: David Castells Quintana

  

 20:00                Dinner at Restaurant El Círcol

  

  
 

 September 5th 2014

  

 09:00 – 10:30    Session 4 “Knowledge Dynamics”

                             Chair: Camélia Turcu 

  

 “Knowledge spillovers and economic performance of firms located in depressed areas: does geographical proximity matter?”

 (Liliana Araújo, Sandra Silva, Aurora A.C. Teixeira)

 Discussant: Astrid Krenz

  

 “New industry: Spatial Distribution and Regional development in the European Union regions”

 (Antoni Soy, Jordi Suriñach, Esther Vayá)

 Discussant: Sandra Silva

  

 “Agglomeration of Knowledge: A Regional Economic Analysis for the German Economy”

 (Astrid Krenz)

 Discussant: Esther Vayá

  

 10:30 – 10:45    Coffee break

 10:45 – 12:00    “Quality of government and innovative performance in the regions of Europe”

     Invited Lecture: Andrés Rodríguez-Pose (London School of Economics)

 12:00 – 13:30    Session 5 “Labour Market and Innovation” 

                             Chair: Andrés Rodríguez-Pose

  

 “Job accessibility, employment and job-education mismatch in the metropolitan area of Barcelona”

 (Antonio Di Paolo, Anna Matas, Josep Lluís Raymond)

 Discussant: Catalina Jordi

  

 “Does absorptive capacity determine collaborative research returns to

 innovation? A geographical dimension”

 (Erika Raquel Badillo, Rosina Moreno)

 Discussant: Antonio Di Paolo

  

 “The determinants of urban (un)employment duration: Evidence from Barcelona”

 (Catalina Jordi, Miguel Manjón-Antolín)

 Discussant: Erika Raquel Badillo

  

 13:30 – 14:30    Lunch (Faculty of Business and Economics, URV)

 14:30 – 15:30    Session 6 “Housing and Migration”

                             Chair: Luis Díaz-Serrano

  

 “Are housing market policies offset at the labour market? The effect of housing market tenure type on wages”

 (Mark A.C. Kattenberg, Wolter H.J. Hassink)

 Discussant: Yuri Yegorov

  

 “Migration as Driving Force for the Dynamics of Housing Rent”

 (Yuri Yegorov)

 Discussant: Mark A.C. Kattenberg

  

 15:30 – 15:45    Coffee break

 15:45 – 17:15    Session 7 “Environmental Issues” 

                             Chair: Jan Van Hove

  

 “Economic integration, factors’ location and spatial disparities”

 (Camélia Turcu)

 Discussant: Christian A. Oberst

  

 “Regional Economic Determinants for the Adoption of Micro-Generation Technologies of Renewable Energies: The Case of Germany”

 (Christian A. Oberst, Reinhard Madlener)

 Discussant: Marie Caroline Vandermeer

  

 “Economic land consumption and regional development in North-West Europe”

 (Marie Caroline Vandermeer, Jean Marie Halleux)

 Discussant: Camélia Turcu

  

 17:15                Farewell

 Camélia Turcu (INFER)

 Josep-Maria Arauzo-Carod & Miguel Manjón-Antolín (CREIP & URV)

  

  

  

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Sep '14

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08:00 Starting date

Sep '14

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