Conference on Cities, Trade and Regional Development

Time and Location

Conference Schedule

9:00am - 9:30am: Breakfast
9:30am - 10:15am: Mariaflavia Harari (Wharton)
Cities in Bad Shape: Urban Geometry in India
10:15am - 11:00am: Beata Javorcik (Oxford)
Grin and Bear It: Producer-financed Exports from an Emerging Market
11:00am - 11:45am: Break
11:45am - 12:30pm: Jeremiah Dittmar (LSE)
State Capacity and Public Goods: Institutional Change, Human Capital, and Growth in Early Modern Germany
12:30pm - 2:30pm: Lunch ( Faculty Club, Davis building)
2:30pm - 3:15pm: Jessie Handbury (Wharton)
Is the focus on food deserts fruitless? Retail access and food purchases across the socioeconomic spectrum
3:15pm - 4:00pm: David Atkin (MIT)
Exporting and Firm Performance: Evidence from a Randomized Trial
4:00pm - 4:45pm: Break
4:45pm - 5:30pm: Cecile Gaubert (UC Berkeley)
Tourism and Economic Development: Evidence from Mexico's Coastline
6:00pm: Dinner at Glenerin Inn