2017 Urban and Real Estate Economics International Workshop

June 7-10, 2017

Institute for Economic and Social Research, Jinan University

Guangzhou, China

June 7th

9:00-12:00 Public Lecture: Housing and Household

Vincent Yao (Georgia State University)

June 8th

8:20-8:30 Welcome Speech

8:30 - 9:30 Decompositions of Spatially Varying Quantile Distribution Estimates: The Rise and Fall of Tokyo House Prices

Daniel McMillen (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Discussant: Wei Shi (Jinan University)

9:30 - 10:30 Preliminary Descriptions of the Chinese Higher Education Market

Yizhen Gu (Jinan University)

Discussant: Mark Partridge (Ohio State University)

10:30-10:50 Break

10:50-11:50 Household Portfolio Choice Before and After House Purchase

Jie Zhou (Bank of Canada)

Discussant: Yunqi Zhang (Nankai University)

11:50-12:50 The Impact of Air Pollution on Firm Inventory

Han Li (Southwestern University of Finance and Economics)

Discussant: Daniel McMillen (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

12:50-14:10 Lunch

14:10-15:10  Wage Spillovers, Housing Cost Spillovers, and Child Outcomes

Richard Green (University of Southern California)

Discussant: Hongjia Zhu (Jinan University)

15:10-16:10  Does Home Purchase Restriction affect Elite Graduates’ Job Search?

Weizeng Sun (Jinan University)

Discussant: Yuming Fu (National University of Singapore)

16:10-16:30 Break

16:30-17:30  Understanding Housing Demand in Urban China      

Sisi Zhang (Jinan University)

Discussant: Sumit Agarwal (Georgetown University)      

June 9th

8:30-9:30 Building Specialization, Anchor Tenants and Agglomeration Economies

Stuart Rosenthal (Syracuse University)

Discussant: Daxuan Zhao (Renmin University)

9:30-10:30 Housing Wealth and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from China

Shimeng Liu (Jinan University)

Discussant: Stuart Rosenthal (Syracuse University)

10:30-10:50  Break

10:50-11:50 Agglomeration and Firm Wage Inequality: Evidence from China 

Mark Partridge (Ohio State University)

Discussant: Shiyu Bo (Jinan University)

11:50-12:50  A Dynamic Discrete Choice Model of Reverse Mortgage Borrower Behavior

Wei Shi (Jinan University)

Discussant: Vincent Yao (Georgia State University)

12:50-14:00  Lunch

14:00-15:00  Policy Roundtable: Housing Policies: What Have We Learnt from U.S. Experience?

Moderator: Shimeng Liu

Panelists: Richard Green, Vincent Yao, Sisi Zhang

June 10th

9:00-12:00    Public Lecture: Housing and Superstitions

Sumit Agarwal (Georgetown University)     

Workshop Organizers: 

Sisi Zhang and Shimeng Liu

Workshop registration:

please email your name and affiliation to Jiayu at linjiayu@jnu.edu.cn; regrestration is free but transportation, accommodation and meals are not covered. 

Workshop Location: 

School of Economics 106B, Jinan University, 601 W Huangpu Ave, Guangzhou