“Firms and Cities”: 3rd Annual Workshop at HEC Paris

Organisers: Tomasz Michalski and Eric Mengus (Department EDS)

Room: S-227

09:00 – 11:00 - Session 1:

Frederic Robert-Nicoud (GSEM, U Geneva): "Sorting to expensive cities," with Cecile Gaubert (UC Berkeley)

Elisa Giannone (CREI) "Living in a Ghost Town: The Geography of Aging and Depopulation" with Yuhei Miyauchi (Boston University), Nuno Paixao (Bank of Canada), Xinle Pang (SUNY Buffalo) and Yuta Suzuki (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

10:10 – 10:25 - Coffee break

Donald Davis (Columbia U): "Firm productivity within and across cities," with Eric Mengus (HEC Paris), Tomasz Michalski (HEC Paris), and Elie Vidal-Nacquet (HEC Paris).

11:00 – 12:15 - Keynote: Gilles Duranton (Wharton Business School)

12:15 – 13:45 - Lunch

13:45 – 16:30 - Session 2:

Laurent Gobillon (PSE and CNRS): "The Rise of Consumer Cities: Evidence from the City of Light," with P.P. Combes (Sciences Po), G. Loumeau (VU Amsterdam) and Y. Zylberberg (U Bristol).

Alex Trew (U Glasgow): "The Death and Life of Great British Cities" with Stephan Heblich (U Toronto, NBER), D. K. Nagy (UPF, CREI, BSE) and Y. Zylberberg (U Bristol)

15:00 – 15:15 - Coffee break

Gregory Verdugo (Université Paris Saclay, Evry): "Will You Follow me to the Suburbs? The Consequences of Establishments' Relocation in a Large Metro Area", with Malak Kandoussi (University of Evry-Val d'Essonne).

Benoit Schmutz (CREST / Ecole Polytechnique / IP Paris): “The Volatility Advantages of Large Labor Markets” with M. Conte (CREST / Ecole Polytechnique / IP Paris), I. Mejean (Sciences Po) and Tomasz Michalski (HEC Paris)

16:30 - End

The workshop is funded by "Investissements d'Avenir" [grant number ANR-11-IDEX-0003/Labex Ecodec/ANR-11-LABX-0047].