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S2E11 - Special Series on History and Urban Economics - Part III
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Special Series on History and Urban Economics - Part III
This episode is the third and final in a series based on a new special issue on Urban Economics and History in Regional Science and Urban Economics. It contains a series of short conversations with authors and concludes Season 2 of the show.
Today’s Guests:
Ed Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics and Chairman of the Department of Economics at Harvard University.
Leah Brooks is an Associate Professor at George Washington University’s Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration.
Ting Chen is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Hong Kong Baptist University.
David Nagy is a Junior Researcher at Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI), an Adjunct Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), and a Barcelona School of Economics Affiliated Professor.
Yanos Zylberberg is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Bristol.
Jason Barr is a Professor of Economics at Rutgers University-Newark.
Papers Discussed in Today’s Episode:
What Can Developing Cities Today Learn from the Urban Past? by Ed Glaeser
What if You Build It and They Don’t Come? How the Ghost of Transit Past Haunts the Transit Present by Leah Brooks and Genevieve Denoeux
War Shocks, Migration, and Historical Spatial Development in China by Ting Chen and James Kung
Quantitative Economic Geography Meets History: Questions, Answers and Challenges by David Nagy
Urban Economics in a Historical Perspective: Recovering Data with Machine Learning by Pierre-Philippe Combes, Laurent Gobillon, and Yanos Zylberberg
Viewing Urban Spatial History from Tall Buildings by Gabriel Ahlfedlt and Jason Barr
Firms, Fires, and Firebreaks: The Impact of the 1906 San Francisco Disaster on Business Agglomeration by James Siodla
Follow us on the web or on Twitter: @denselyspeaking, @jeffrlin, @greg_shill.
Hosts: Jeff Lin and Greg Shill.
Special thanks to our outgoing producer Schuyler Pals (Schuyler, you'll be greatly missed - thank you and good luck on the bar exam!)
Our theme music is by Oleksandr Koltsov. Sounds from Ambience, London Street by InspectorJ.
The views expressed on the show are those of the participants, and do not necessarily represent the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, the Federal Reserve System, or any of the other institutions with which the hosts or guests are affiliated.
36 episodes
Manage episode 333622993 series 2783666
Special Series on History and Urban Economics - Part III
This episode is the third and final in a series based on a new special issue on Urban Economics and History in Regional Science and Urban Economics. It contains a series of short conversations with authors and concludes Season 2 of the show.
Today’s Guests:
Ed Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics and Chairman of the Department of Economics at Harvard University.
Leah Brooks is an Associate Professor at George Washington University’s Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration.
Ting Chen is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Hong Kong Baptist University.
David Nagy is a Junior Researcher at Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI), an Adjunct Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), and a Barcelona School of Economics Affiliated Professor.
Yanos Zylberberg is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Bristol.
Jason Barr is a Professor of Economics at Rutgers University-Newark.
Papers Discussed in Today’s Episode:
What Can Developing Cities Today Learn from the Urban Past? by Ed Glaeser
What if You Build It and They Don’t Come? How the Ghost of Transit Past Haunts the Transit Present by Leah Brooks and Genevieve Denoeux
War Shocks, Migration, and Historical Spatial Development in China by Ting Chen and James Kung
Quantitative Economic Geography Meets History: Questions, Answers and Challenges by David Nagy
Urban Economics in a Historical Perspective: Recovering Data with Machine Learning by Pierre-Philippe Combes, Laurent Gobillon, and Yanos Zylberberg
Viewing Urban Spatial History from Tall Buildings by Gabriel Ahlfedlt and Jason Barr
Firms, Fires, and Firebreaks: The Impact of the 1906 San Francisco Disaster on Business Agglomeration by James Siodla
Follow us on the web or on Twitter: @denselyspeaking, @jeffrlin, @greg_shill.
Hosts: Jeff Lin and Greg Shill.
Special thanks to our outgoing producer Schuyler Pals (Schuyler, you'll be greatly missed - thank you and good luck on the bar exam!)
Our theme music is by Oleksandr Koltsov. Sounds from Ambience, London Street by InspectorJ.
The views expressed on the show are those of the participants, and do not necessarily represent the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, the Federal Reserve System, or any of the other institutions with which the hosts or guests are affiliated.
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