Activities - Conferences
Workshop on Macro and Micro Aspects of Economic Geography
CEPR/CREI Conference
November 23-24, 2001Conference jointly sponsored with the CEPR. The program was prepared by professors Antonio Ciccone (UPF) and Philippe Martin (FRB of New York and CEPR). Financial support was obtained from the Spanish Ministerio de Educación y Cultura and from the Generalitat de Catalunya.
The two-day conference brought together approximately forty European and US experts in the field of economic geography. The goal of the conference was to encourage interaction of researchers working on macroeconomic and microeconomic aspects of the field. The main part of the conference program consisted of the presentation of eleven recent papers. These presentations were followed by a prepared expert comment and lively open discussions.
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Working papers available
Geography of Export Patters
by Jonathan Eaton (with Sam Kortum and Francis Kramarz)
The Real Effects of Local Financial Development
by Luigi Guiso (with Paula Sapienza and Luigi Zingales)
Knowledge Spillovers and the Growth of Local Industries
by Sergio Paba (with Mario Forni)
Localisation in UK Manufacturing Industries: Assessing Non-Randomness Using Micro-Geographic Data
by Gilles Duranton (with Henry Overman)
Trade and Productivity
by Antonio Ciccone (with Francisco Alcala)
Taste Heterogeneity, Labor Mobility, and Economic Geography - (graphics)
by Jacques Thisse (with Takatoshi Tabuchi)
Pork-Barrel Politics and Residential Development: Evidence from Remote-Sensing Imagery of US Congressional District Boundaries
by Henry G Overman and Diego Puga (with Matthew A Turner)
The Economic Geography of Trade, Production and Income: A Survey of Empirics
by Stephen Redding (with Henry G Overman and Anthony J Venables)
Young People, Skills and Cities
by Giovanni Peri
Economies of Scale in European Manufacturing Revisited
by Karen Helene Midelfart Knarvik (with Espen Henriksen and Frode Steen)