RUESeminar
The Regional and Urban Economics Seminar (RUES) of the Paris School of Economics is co-organized by Laurent Gobillon (PSE) and Miren Lafourcade (Université Paris-Saclay and PSE).
It is a quarterly workshop allowing regional and urban economists from different backgrounds and countries to interact and exchange ideas in Paris.
The RUES consists of an optional coffee break followed by two keynote lectures and a junior presentation, all three with discussions, and a social dinner (for presenters, discussants, and organizers only).
At least one of the two keynotes comes from a non-French university (among past seminars, guest researchers have come from LSE, University of Oxford, VU University Amsterdam, University of Berkeley, UQAM, University of Barcelona, CEMFI-Madrid, Syracuse University, Queen Mary University London, Columbia University, World Bank, George Washington University, Duke University, Brown University, University of Geneva, Stockholm University, University of Lausanne, University of Toronto, Erasmus University Rotterdam, University of Warwick, Dartmouth College...).
The program of the past RUES series is available here.
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Next RUES session: "Land-Use and Economic Development", 25th of June 2024
Venue: Paris School of Economics, Room R2-21, 48 Boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, France
12:30 – 13:30: Lunch-Coffee (PSE, Big Hall)
Welcome Address: Miren Lafourcade (Université Paris-Saclay and PSE)
13:30 – 14:10 Lecture 1: Gabriel Ahlfeldt (Humboldt University)
“The skyscraper revolution: Global economic development and land savings”
with N. Baum-Snow (University of Toronto) and R. Jedwab (George Washington University)
14:10 – 14:20 Discussant: Aurélie Sotura (Banque de France)
14:20 – 14:30 Q&A with the audience
14:30 – 15:10 Lecture 2: Florian Mayneris (ESG-Université du Québec à Montréal)
“How densely do manufacturing establishments occupy land?”
with K. Behrens and T. Ndjanmou Bieda (UQAM)
15:10 – 15:20 Discussant: Thierry Mayer (SciencesPo)
15:20 – 15:30 Q&A with the audience
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 16:40 Lecture 3: Pierre-Philippe Combes (SciencesPo)
“Urbanisation and urban divergence: France 1760-2020”
with G. Duranton (Wharton-University of Pennsylvania), L. Gobillon (PSE), C. Gorin (CES-Université Paris 1),
and F. Robert-Nicoud (University of Genève)
16:40 – 16:50 Discussant: Alyssa Rusonik (HEC)
16:50 – 17:00 Q&A with the audience
Concluding Address: Laurent Gobillon (PSE)
RUES session: “Historical Transport and Cities", 27th of March 2024
Venue: Paris School of Economics, Room R1-09, 48 Boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, France
13:00 – 13:30 Welcome Coffee (PSE, Big Hall)
Welcome Address: Laurent Gobillon (PSE)
13:30 – 14:10 Lecture 1: Marta Santa Maria (University of Warwick)
“Reshaping Infrastructure: Evidence from the division of Germany”
14:10 – 14:20 Discussant: Florian Oswald (Sciences Po)
14:20 – 14:30 Q&A with the audience
14:30 – 15:10 Lecture 2: Clément Bosquet (CES-Université Paris 1-Panthéon-Sorbonne)
“Railroad Expansion, Local Shocks and Individual Opportunities: Evidence from 19th-Century America”
with M. (CES-Université Paris 1-Panthéon-Sorbonne)
15:10 – 15:20 Discussant: Corentin Trevien (INSEE)
15:20 – 15:30 Q&A with the audience
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00– 16:40 Lecture 3: Pol Consentino (CES-Université Paris 1-Panthéon-Sorbonne)
“Urban Transport Infrastructure and Downtown outmigration in the 19th century: the case of Paris”
16:40 – 16:50 Discussant: Camille Hémet (Université Paris 1 and PSE)
16:50 – 17:00 Q&A with the audience
Concluding Address: Miren Lafourcade (Université Paris-Saclay and PSE)
RUES session: “Land-Use Regulation and Housing Supply", 11th of December 2023
Venue: Paris School of Economics, Room R1-15, 48 Boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, France
13:00 – 13:30 Welcome Coffee (PSE, Big Hall)
Welcome Address: Miren Lafourcade (Université Paris-Saclay and PSE)
13:30 – 14:10 Lecture 1: Amrita Kulka (University of Warwick)
"Under the (neighbor)Hood: Understanding Interactions Among Zoning Regulations”
with A. Sood (University of Toronto) and N. Chiumenti (USDA)
14:10 – 14:20 Discussant: Nina Guyon (ENS-PSL and PSE)
14:20 – 14:30 Q&A with the audience
14:30 – 15:10 Lecture 2: Guillaume Chapelle (University of Cergy-Paris)
“Land use regulation and the housing supply elasticity: evidence from France”
with J.-B. Eyméoud & C. Wolf (LIEPP-Sciences Po)
15:10 – 15:20 Discussant: Gabrielle Fack (University Paris-Dauphine-PSL and PSE)
15:20 – 15:30 Q&A with the audience
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00– 16:40 Lecture 3: Julia Paul-Venturine (PSE)
“Build at your own risk. Integrating disaster hazards in land use regulations in France”
16:40 – 16:50 Discussant: Clara Santa Maria (Sciences Po)
16:50 – 17:00 Q&A with the audience
Concluding Address: Laurent Gobillon (PSE)
Special online RUES session: “Neighborhoods and intergenerational social mobility"
16th May 2022, 17:00-19:00 (Paris time)
17:00 – 17:05 Welcome Address: Miren Lafourcade (University Paris-Saclay, CEPREMAP and PSE)
17:05 – 17:30 Lecture 1: Leah Platt Boustan (Princeton University)
Title: “Streets of gold: The role of geography in immigrant assimilation in the US”
Abstract: The United States has absorbed two major waves of immigration: one in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, and one today. I will present new data documenting a common pattern of immigrant assimilation in both periods, whereby the children of immigrants completely converge with and even surpass the earnings of the children of the US-born. Location choice plays an important role: immigrants move to urban areas that offer opportunities for advancement for themselves and their children. Settling in an immigrant enclave can delay assimilation, but this effect is overwhelmed by the strong tendency of immigrants to move to highly mobile locations.
17:30 – 17:40 Interdisciplinary dialogue with the audience
Discussant/Panelist: Florian Mayneris (Université du Québec à Montréal)
17:40 – 18:05 Lecture 2: Patrick Sharkey (Princeton University School of Public and International Affairs)
Title: “The Growing Link Between Space and Inequality in the US”
Abstract: I argue that space is becoming an increasingly important dimension of inequality in the US. I will describe several trends and findings that have exacerbated spatial inequality, and present new evidence showing how the division of urban space affects the economic outcomes of children. The talk concludes with three approaches to addressing spatial inequality.
18:05 – 18:15 Interdisciplinary dialogue with the audience
Discussant/Panelist: Haley McAvay (University of York)
18:15– 18:40 Michael Storper (London School of Economics, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs)
Title: “Deep roots and changing fortunes: the changing geography of intergenerational social mobility in the United States over the twentieth century”
Abstract: Intergenerational social mobility (ISM) – the rate at which children born into poverty climb the income ladder – varies considerably across neighborhoods and cities in the United States. Some formerly high opportunity regions are no longer so, while other regions display consistently low levels of opportunity across the century. The changing geography of employment restructures the landscape of social mobility, but factors associated with intraregional inequality and “deep roots” generate persistence. These two forces are most sharply evident in the sharp decline in ISM for persons who grew up in the Midwest in the late twentieth century, as high-income economic activity has shifted away from it, and the persistence of the South as a low-opportunity region even as new economic activity shifted toward it.
18:40 – 18:50 Interdisciplinary dialogue with the audience
Discussant/Panelist: Clara Martínez-Toledano (Imperial College Business School)
18:50 – 18:55 Concluding Address: Laurent Gobillon (Paris School of Economics)
This RUES session has been organized with the CEPREMAP and the “Urban Economics, History and Society” OSE collaborative project.