Washington DC Urban Economics Day 2024
Fri, 10 May, 2024
9:00am - 4:00pm
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 urban economists. 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 : | 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 |
Contact Leah Brooks, [email protected], with questions.
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