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...touch urban life. For example, the group has a strong interest in local public finance and local tax issues. Agglomeration economies, which are so important to the success of cities, are also of primary concern. More generally, the group is interested in real estate, urban poverty, race relations and segregation m cities, urban crime, local amenities, and transportation technologies.
The American city is undergoing a massive transformation as high-density cities of the nineteenth century are replaced by the lower-density, car-oriented cities of today. As a result, this is a particularly exciting period to study the economics of urban areas. The group will meet one or two times per year, and at some future point will try to assemble current research into an NBER conference volume.
Edward Glaeser of NBER and Harvard University, who directs the Working Group, organized this program:
J. Vernon Henderson, NBER and Brown University, and Anthony J. Venables, London School of Economics, "The Dynamics of City Formation: Finance and Governance" Discussant: Jose Scheinkman, Princeton University
Joel Waldfogel, NBER and University of Pennsylvania, "The Median Voter and the Median Consumer: Local Private Goods and Residential Sorting" Discussant: Yannis Ioannides, Tufts University
Gilles Duranton and Henry G. Overman, London School of Economics, and Laurent Gobillon, Institut National d'Etudes Demographiques, "Does Local Taxation Affect Business Decisions?" Discussant: Thomas Holmes,...
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