There will be an Online Spatial and Urban Seminar (OSUS) in the summer of 2020.
Website: http://osus.info/
Seminars will be on Monday at 11am EDT, starting June 8.
To be organized by Clare Balboni, Fabian Eckert, Caitlin Gorback, and Chris Severen.
In Latin, the suffix -ōsus is added to a noun to form an adjective indicating an abundance of that noun.
I will maintain this list for posterity. All seminars were held at 12pm Noon EDT (11am CDT).
Monday, April 13, 2020. Wen Wang (Duke). "Environmental Gentrification".
Monday, April 20, 2020. Jonathan Dingel (Booth). "Spatial economics for granular settings" (new paper link).
Monday, April 27, 2020. Camilo Acosta (Toronto). "Spatial Wage Differentials, Geographic Frictions and the Organization of Labor within Firms" (with Ditte Håkonsson Lyngemark).
Monday, May 4, 2020. Paolo Martellini (Penn). "The City-Size Wage Premium: Origins and Aggregate Implications".
Monday, May 11, 2020. Román David Zárate (Berkeley). "Factor Allocation, Informality and Transit Improvements: Evidence from Mexico City".
Monday, May 18, 2020. Nicolas Gendron-Carrier (McGill). "Local Productivity Spillovers" (joint with Nate Baum-Snow and Ronni Pavan).
Tuesday, May 26, 2020. Caitlin Gorback (Wharton). "Your Uber has Arrived: Ridesharing and the Redistribution of Economic Activity".
Format and Organizational Information
Seminars were 45 minutes long with 15 minutes for discussion.
Seminars were not recorded.
Seminar was organized by Christopher Severen for the urban economics community. How talks were selected: I invited a couple of talks, and created a pool of potential talks based on papers that I found interesting from Jonathan Dingel's Spatial JMC weblist and people that had emailed me to volunteer. I randomized a rank-ordering of people and asked them in order of ranking.
LSE is hosting their urban and economic geography seminars online on Fridays at 8AM CDT (link).
The Quantitative Spatial Economics Junior Workshop (link) is online on Fridays!
An environmental economics seminar is here: https://gosee.io/
A list on virtual seminars: https://virtual-econ.info/