Workshop 2: 24 - 25 April 2023

University of Birmingham (UoB) – Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam Big Data and Economics Research Network (BVRN), 2nd Workshop on Urban and Environmental Challenges.

Programme

Monday 24 April 2023
09:45-10:00   Coffee and Tea  
10:00-10:15   Hans Koster (VU) Welcome
10:15-11:00 Paper 1 Matt Cole (UoB) Invisible Immigrants: Urbanisation, CoNational Density and the Legal Integration of Refugees
11:00-11:45 Paper 2 Erik Verhoef (VU) The empirical bathtub model
11:45-12:30 Paper 3 Francesco Maria Esposito (UoB) Salient immigration and alien conviction rates: Evidence from the court of Naples
12:30-13:45   Lunch  
13:45-14:30 Paper 4 Livia Menezes (UoB) Maternal Dismissals during Pregnancy and the Health of New-borns
14:30-15:15 Paper 5 Jos van Ommeren (VU) Dynamic pricing: The role of competition
15:15-16:00 Paper 6 Pierre Picard (University of Luxembourg) Geographical Stratification of Green Urban Areas
16:00-16:30   Coffee and Tea  
16:30-18:00   PhD Papers

1. Sarah Meier (UoB): The Great Fire of 1910: Impacts on excess mortality and life outcomes

2. Leonardo Menezes Nunes (VU): Cruising in Melbourne: A Welfare Analysis of Parking Policies

3. Jennifer Olsen (CPB/VU): Quantifying the Misallocation of Public Housing

18:30   Dinner at De Veranda  
Tuesday 25 April 2023
09:45-10:00    Coffee and Tea   
10:00-10:45  Paper 6 Allan Beltran (UoB) After the flood: Housing market liquidity and house prices 
10:45-11:30 Paper 7  Jan Rouwendal (VU) Borrowing constraints, housing tenure choice and buy-to-let investors: An assignment model
11:30-12:15  Paper 8 Zhiling Wang (EUR/VU) Identifying housing preferences in regulated markets: Evidence from waiting lists
12:15-13:30   Lunch  
13:30-14:15  Paper 9 Rob Elliott (UoB) The Impact of the Environment on Urbanisation During the late Qing Dynasty
14:15-15:00  Paper 10  Xiao Yu (VU) Travel time uncertainty and ambiguity attitudes
15:00-15:30    Coffee and Tea  
15:30-16:15 Grant application Ceren Ozgen (UoB) Discussion on a joint funding application on urban inequalities
University of Birmingham
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam