The 2018 Barcelona Workshop on Regional and Urban Economics will be held in Barcelona on October 4th-5th, 2018 in “Sala de Graus Ernest Lluch”, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Barcelona.

 

Final programme
Thursday, October 4th 2018
15:30 Welcome and opening act: Raul Ramos (Vice-Dean of Research and Doctorate, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Barcelona).

Chair: Vicente Royuela (AQR-IREA, University of Barcelona)

15:45 Keynote Lecture: Alessandra Faggian (Gran Sasso Science Institute, L’Aquila); “Regional resilience and the peripheries: some reflections”.
16:45 Coffee break
17:00 1st Contributed session: Economic Resilience to Natural Disasters

Chair: David Castells-Quintana (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona & AQR-IREA)

Raffaele Scuderi (Kore University of Enna), Giuseppe Tesoriere (Kore University of Enna), Vincenzo Fasone (Kore University of Enna); “Adaptation of micro firms to floods: evidence from Ugandan cities”.
A. Yair Grinberger (Heidelberg University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Peleg Samuels (Hebrew University of Jerusalem); “Labor Mobility, Trade and Urban Resilience to Natural Disasters”.
20:30 Workshop dinner (by invitation only).

 

Friday, October 5th 2018
9:30 Keynote Lecture: Péter Benczúr (Joint Research Centre, European Commission); “JRC work on Resilience – A conceptual framework, a measurement strategy, and its implementation”.
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 2nd Contributed session: Resilience and Public Policies

Chair: Matías Mayor (Universidad de Oviedo)

Nicola Pontarollo (Joint Research Centre, European Commission), Carolina Serpieri (Sapienza Università di Roma); “Towards regional renewal: A multilevel perspective for EU”.
Patrizio Lecca (Joint Research Centre, European Commission), Filippo Di Pietro (Joint Research Centre, European Commission), Simone Salotti (Joint Research Centre, European Commission); Regional economic resilience in the European Union: a CGE analysis”.
Roberto Ezcurra (Universidad Publica de Navarra), Vicente Rios (Universidad Publica de Navarra); “Quality of government and regional resilience in the European Union. Evidence from the Great Recession”.
13:00 Closing Act and Informal Lunch

 

To download the programme, please click here.

 

 

AQR Research Group

University of Barcelona
Faculty of Economics and Business Department of Econometrics, Statistics and Applied Economics
Av. Diagonal 690, Tower IV, 08034 Barcelona

 

Phone: (+34) 93 403 72 41
Fax: (+34) 93 402 18 21

 

Email: aqr(at)ub.edu
Web: http://www.ub.edu/aqr/

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