The 2023 Barcelona Workshop on Regional and Urban Economics, will be held in Barcelona on October 26th-27th, 2023 in “Sala 2019”, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Barcelona.
Program
| Thursday, October 26th 2023 | |
| 15:30 | Welcome and opening act: Ramon Alemany (Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitat de Barcelona) |
| 15:45 | Keynote Lecture: Lewis Dijkstra (Joint Research Centre of the European Commission); “Is the world far more urban than we realised? New insights from new definitions and new data“ Chair: Alessia Matano (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”) |
| 16:45 | Coffee break |
| 17:00 | 1st Contributed session Chair: David Castells-Quintana (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona & AQR-IREA) |
| Miguel Puente-Ajovín (Universidad de Zaragoza), Marcos Sanso-Navarro (Universidad de Zaragoza) and María Vera-Cabello (Centro Universitario de la Defensa de Zaragoza); “Comparing city size distributions: Gridded population vs. nighttime lights” | |
| Paolo Veneri (Gran Sasso Science Institute) and Nicola Pontarollo (University of Brescia); “Good-life cities: Identifying the local conditions driving subjective wellbeing in European cities“ | |
| Alberto Hidalgo (IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca); “Your room is ready: Tourism and urban revival” | |
| 20:30 | Workshop dinner (by invitation only). |
| Friday, October 27th 2023 | |
| 9:30 | Keynote Lecture: Elisa Gianone (Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREi), Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) and Penn State) Chair: Enrique Lopez-Bazo (UB, AQR-IREA) |
| 10:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 | 2nd Contributed session Chair: Vicente Royuela (UB, AQR-IREA) |
| Tasos Kitsos (Aston University), Max Nathan (UCL and CEP), Diana Gutierrez-Posada (University of Oviedo); “Creative destruction? Creative firms, workers and residential gentrification” | |
| Riga Qi (CERGE-EI, Charles University and the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences); “Destroy and build? Economic effects of centres de regroupament in the Algerian war” | |
| David Gomtsyan (CERDI) “Building the city under financial frictions” | |
| 13:00 | Closing Act and Informal Lunch |