Day 1: Thursday, April 14
12:00pm—12:55pm: Arrival and lunch
12:55pm—1:00pm: Opening remarks
1:00pm—2:00pm: Political Economy of Transport Investments: Evidence from the California High-Speed Rail
Cecile Gaubert (UC Berkeley)
Discussant: Andrii Parkhomenko (USC)
2:00pm—2:10pm: Break
2:10pm—3:10pm: Exposure(s) to Trade and Earnings Dynamics
Jonathan Vogel (UCLA)
Discussant: Monica Morlacco (USC)
3:10pm—3:30pm: Break
3:30pm—4:30pm: The Birthplace Premium
Miguel Zerecero (UC Irvine)
Discussant: Jorge De la Roca (USC)
4:30pm—4:40pm: Break
4:40pm—5:40pm: Spatial Implications of Telecommuting
Andrii Parkhomenko (USC)
Discussant: Nick Tsivanidis (UC Berkeley)
6:30pm: Dinner
Day 2: Friday, April 15
8:00am—9:00am: Breakfast
9:00am—10:00pm: Where is the Standard of Living the Highest? Local Prices and the Geography of Consumption
Rebecca Diamond (Stanford)
Discussant: Matt Kahn (USC)
10:00am—10:10am: Break
10:10am—11:10am: Spatial Structural Change
Fabian Eckert (UCSD)
Discussant: Gregor Schubert (UCLA)
11:10am—11:30am: Break
11:30am—12:30pm: The Immigrant Next Door
Thomas Chaney (USC)
Discussant: Gaurav Khanna (UCSD)
12:30pm—1:30pm: Lunch
2:00pm—6:00pm: Hike in Hollywood Hills led by Clemence Tricaud
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the UCLA Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Program in Real Estate, Finance, and Urban Economics