9:10 a.m. - 4 p.m. ET Friday, May 10th, 2024 Churchill Room, Gelman Library 2130 H Street NW George Washington University
The Institute for International Economic Policy is pleased to invite you to the 2024 Washington DC Urban Economics Day.This conference is organized by IIEP faculty affiliate Leah Brooks. We invite you to join this conference to hear from and engage with DC-area urbaneconomists. RSVP soon as a 72-hour notice is required to enter the library!
8:45 am:
Doors open, Coffee and breakfast provided
9:10 - 9:20 am:
Introductions
9:20 - 10:00 am:
Erica Moszkowski, Federal Reserve Board of Governors “Option Value and Storefront Vacancy” [paper] joint with Daniel Stackman
10:00 - 10:40 am:
Michael Navarrete, University of Maryland “Geospatial Heterogeneity in Inflation: A Market Concentration Story” [paper] joint with Seula Kim
10:40 - 11:00 am:
Break
11:00- 11:40 am:
Anthony Yezer, George Washington University “Why We Still Don't Know More About Housing Supply” [paper] joint with Daniel Broxterman and Yishen Liu
11:40 am - 12:20 pm:
Scott Wentland, Bureau of Economic Analysis "Returns to Homeownership and Inequality: Evidence from the First-Time Homebuyer Tax Credit" [paper] joint with Marina Gindelsky, Jeremy Moulton, and Kelly Wentland
12:20 - 1:40 pm:
Lunch, provided
1:40 - 2:20 pm:
Harris Selod, World Bank “Informal Land Markets and Ethnic Kinship in Sub-Saharan African Cities” [paper] joint with Lucie Letrouit
2:20 - 3:00 pm:
Moises Yi, Bureau of the Census "Re-Assessing the Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis" [paper] joint with David Card and Jesse Rothstein
3:00 - 3:20 pm:
Break
3:20 - 4:00 pm:
Erin Troland, Federal Reserve Board of Governors "The Role of Property Assessment Oversight in School Finance Inequality" [paper] joint with Alex Combs and John Foster
