Thursday, December 12 9:00 Introduction9:15 Keynote lecture:

WORKSHOP «PUBLIC POLICIES, CITIES AND REGIONS»

PROGRAM

WORKSHOP «PUBLIC POLICIES, CITIES AND REGIONS»

PROGRAM

December 12-13 2019 Venue: ENS de Lyon Descartes Campus 15 parvis René Descartes 69007 LYON.

ORGANIZED BY GATE LYON SAINT-ETIENNE 93 chemin des Mouilles 69130 Ecully

With the support of:

Thursday, December 12

9:00 Introduction

9:15 Keynote lecture: Gilles Duranton (with Diego Puga) Urban growth and its aggregate implications Introduction by Florence Goffette-Nagot

10:15 Break

Session 1 Spatial impacts of housing and zoning policies Chair: Florence Goffette-Nagot

10:45 Hans Koster

The Welfare Effects of Greenbelt Policy: Evidence from England 11:35 Simon Buchler (with Yashar Blouri, Olivier Schoni)

The geography of housing subsidies

12:25 Lunch

Session 2 Spillovers Chair: Pierre-Philippe Combes

13:55 Bence Boje-Kovacs (with Georges Poquillon)

Do your neighbours matter? Evidence from Building Demolitions in Denmark 14:45 Aurélie Sotura (with Nicolas Jannin)

This Town Ain’t Big Enough? Quantifying Local Public Goods Spillovers

15:35 Break

Session 3 Location choices and spatial equilibrium Chair: Frédéric Robert-Nicoud 16:05 TobiasSeidel (with Gabriel M. Ahlfeldt, Fabian Bald, Duncan Roth)

The spatial equilibrium with migration costs

16:55 MorganUbeda

Local Amenities and Income Disparities Within Cities

Friday, December 13

9:00 Keynote lecture: Stephan Heblich (with Stephen Gibbons and Edward W. Pinchbeck) The Spatial Impacts of A Massive Rail Disinvestment Program: The Beeching Axe Introduction by Pierre-Philippe Combes

10:00 Break

Session 4 Urban planning in historical perspective Chair: Florian Mayneris 10:30 Jeffrey Lin (with Jeffrey Brinkman)

Freeway Revolts

11:20 Gabriel Loumeau

Planning satellite cities

12:10 Lunch

Session 5 Agglomeration economies Chair: Sylvie Charlot 13:30 Florian Mayneris

The distribution of agglomeration economies. Local economic density and the firm-level

labor share

14:20 Anja Grujovic

Tasks , cities and urban wage premia

15:10 Break

Session 6 Housing policies and housing markets Chair: Laurent Simula 15:40 Xiaolun Yu (with Christian Hilber and Felipe Carozzi)

The economic impacts of help to buy

16:30 Florence Goffette-Nagot (with Sylvain Chareyron and Lucie Letrouit) Impacts of a French Urban Renewal Program on local housing markets