9:00 - 9:30

Registration (Hall)

9:30 – 10:30

Plenary Session (Ground room)

Chairperson: Rosella Nicolini (IAE-CSIC)

Diego Puga (IMDEA and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid))

Ruggedness:

The blessing of bad geography in Africa

(with N. Nunn)

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 – 13:00

PARALLEL  SESSIONS

Session A

(Room 1)

European cities: facts and figures

Chairperson: Rosella Nicolini (IAE-CSIC)

F. Sanz (Universidad de Zaragoza)

“Urban Dynamics during the twentieth Century: A tale of five European Countries” (with L. Lanaspa and F. Puyo)

A. Rupérez Micola (UPF)

“Separated by a Common Currency ? Evidence from the Euro Changeover” (with A. Bris)

Discussant

G. Carlino

Session B

(Room 3)

Regional immigration flows in Spain

Chairperson: Ramon Caminal  (IAE-CSIC)

F. Ortega (UPF)

“How Do Very Open Economies Absorb Large Immigration Flows? Recent Evidence from Spanish Regions” (with L. González)

R. Sanchis-Guarner (LSE and ARQ-IREA, UB)

“Regional migration and the geography of production: an analysis for Spanish provinces (1988-2002)”

Discussant

M. Arntz

J.Fernández-Huertas Moraga

Session C

(Ground

room)

Space and trade

Chairperson: Alessandra Bonfiglioli (IAE-CSIC)

S. Peralta (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

“The impact of transfer prices on the production structure and location of firms” (with. K. Behrens and P. Picard)

G. Ottaviano (Universitá degli Studi di Bologna)

“The margin of export: an integrated approach” (with M. Melitz)

Discussant

E. Paluzie

G. Gancia

13:30 – 15:30

Lunch

Restaurant 111

Rambla 111 - Barcelona

15:30 – 17:30

PARALLEL  SESSIONS

Session A

(Ground room)

Amenities and cities

Chairperson: Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (Princeton University)

G.de Blasio (Bank of Italy)

“Skill-biased agglomeration effects and amenities: theory with an application to Italian cities” (with. A. Dalmazzo)

G. Carlino (Federal Reserve of Philadelphia)

“City beautiful: New Evidence of Amenities and Urban Growth” (with A. Saiz)

Discussant

J. Lin

K. Schmidheny

Session B

(Room 1)

History and Geography

Chairperson: J. Martínez (Universitat de Barcelona)

F. Goerlich (Universitat de Valencia)

“Drivers of agglomeration: geography vs history” (with M. Mas)

A. Tirado (Universitat de Barcelona)

“Spatial inequalities in regional industrial output. Spain: 1850-2005” (with. J. Martínez)

Discussant

J. Martínez

R. Nicolini

Session C

(Room 2)

Labor and space

Chairperson: Giovanni Peri  (University of California Davis and NBER)

G. Mion (CORE-UCL and FNRS)

“Spatial Sorting Matching of Skills and Firms” (with P. Naticchioni)

M. Arntz (ZEW)

“What attracts human capital? Understanding the skill composition of interregional job matches in Germany ”

Discussant

R. Sanchis-Guarner Herrero

F. Ortega

Session D

(Room 3)

The importance of distance

Chairperson: J.M Arauzo  (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)

F. Requena (Universitat de Valencia)

“The border effects in Spain: an industry-level analysis”(with G. Llano)

P. Picard (SoSS University of Manchester)

“Transportation, freight rates, and economic geography” (with. K. Behrens)

Discussant

J.M Arauzo

A. Garcia Pires

17:30 – 18:00

Coffee Break

18:00 – 19:00

Plenary Session (Ground room)

Chairperson: Antonio Ciccone (ICREA, CREI, UPF and CEPR)

Esteban Rossi-Hansberg  (Princeton University)

Spatial Growth and Industry Age

(with K. Desmet)

21:00

Dinner

Restaurant Can Solé

C/ Sant Carles, 4 - Barcelona

09:30 – 11:30

PARALLEL SESSIONS

Session A

(Room 3)

Innovation and geography

Chairperson: Lionel Artige (Université de Liège)

A. Garcia Pires (Norwegian School of Economics and Business Adminsitration)

“Competitiveness and Industrial Location in International Oligopolies”

J.Lin (Federal Reserve of Philadelphia)

“Innovation, Cities and New Work”

Discussant

P.Picard

L. Artige

Session B

(Room 1)

Industrial

agglomeration

Chairperson: Elisenda Paluzie (Universitat de Barcelona)

Fl. Mayneris (Paris School of Economics, EHESS)

“Spatial concentration and productivity: an empirical approach on French individual data” (with Ph. Martin and Th. Mayer)

C. Menon (LSE)

“The Bright Side of Gerrymandering: an Enquiry on the Determinants of Industrial Agglomeration in the United States”

Discussant

M. Vilalta

G.Mion

Session C

(Room 2)

Agglomerationand fiscal policy

Chairperson: Brindusa Anghel (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

K. Schmidheny (UPF)

“Do Agglomeration Economies Reduce the Sensitivity of Firms Location to Tax Differentials?” (with M. Brülhart and M. Jametti)

K. Crabbé (Lessius and KULeuven)

“Spatial tax competition in the EU 15”

Discussant

K. Crabbé

B. Anghel

11:30 – 12:00

Coffee Break

12:00 – 13:00

Plenary Session (Ground room)

Chairperson: Lionel Artige (Université de Liège)

Giovanni Peri (University of California Davis)

Immigration, Investment and Technology in the U.S.

States and Regions: 1960-2006

13:30 – 15:30

Lunch

Restaurant 111

Rambla 111 - Barcelona