4th Workshop “Agglomeration: Workers, Firms, and Cities” at HEC Paris

June 18, 2026 (Thursday): Room S-227

08:30 – 09:00 Morning coffee

09:00 – 11:30 Session 1:
1. Fabian Eckert (UCSD): “Housing Drag in the US Economy”, with Shane Nordquist (UCSD) and Fabian Trottner (UCSD)
2. Clement Gorin (Panthéon-Sorbonne University): “The Eye of the Beholder: Neighbourhood Embeddings and Housing Prices", with Laurent Gobillon (Paris School of Economics, CNRS), Stephan Heblich (University of Toronto), and Amine Ouazad (HEC Montréal).

10:20 – 10:50 Coffee break
3. Gabriel Loumeau (U Neuchâtel): “The Persistence of Urban Decline: Evidence from France's Largest Coal Basin”, with Hans Koster (VU Amsterdam)

11:30 – 12:45 Keynote: Nathan Baum-Snow (Rotman School of Management

12:45 – 14:00 Buffet lunch at HEC Paris

14:00 – 15:20 Session 2:
4. Clara Santamaria (Sciences Po) “From Mouse’ Head to Lion’s Tail: movers and the city size earnings premium in five European economies” with Mimosa Distefano (CEP LSE) and Henry Overman (LSE)
5. Don Davis (Columbia University): “Returns to Experience Across and Within Cities” with Eric Mengus (HEC Paris), Tomasz Michalski (HEC Paris) and Elie Vidal-Naquet (Université Paris-Dauphine)

15:20 – 15:50 Coffee break

15:50 – 17:10 Session 3: 
6. Florence Goffette-Nagot (ENS Lyon, CNRS): "Neighborhood Effects and Job Search Behaviors", co-authored with Aurélie Lapierre (Université Paris-Dauphine, LEDA) 
7. Guillaume Chapelle (CY Cergy Paris University): “Competing for opportunity: Transport infrastructures and localized unemployment”, with Morgan Ubeda (INRAE – CESAER)

17:10 Cocktail at The Best Western Saclay (adjacent to HEC Paris)
ca. 18:30 Transfer to restaurant in Versailles

19 :00 dinner in Azuli restaurant (6 Rue de la Chancellerie, 78000 Versailles)

June 19, 2026 (Friday): Room S-227

08:30 – 09:00 Morning coffee

09:00 – 11:25 Session 1:
1. Levi Crews (UCLA): “Skills, sorting, and optimal dynamic spatial policy.”
2. Pauline Carry (Princeton) “Location Effects or Sorting? Evidence from Firm Relocation”, with Benny Kleinman (Stanford) and Elio Nimier-David (Cornell)

10:20 – 10:45 Coffee break
3. Jorge De La Roca (USC): “Skills and Urban Amenities in the Developing World” with Andrii Parkhomenko (USC Marshall) and Daniel Velasquez (Claremont McKenna).

11:25 – 11:40 Coffee break

11:40 – 13:00 Session 2:
4. Wolfgang Dauth (University of Bamberg): “Matching and Agglomeration” with Sebastian Findeisen (University of Konstanz) and Enrico Moretti (UC Berkeley). 
5. Clement Bosquet (Panthéon-Sorbonne University): "Spatial wage disparities within cities", with Giulia Faggio (City St George's, University of London).

13:00 – 14:00 Buffet lunch at HEC Paris
 

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