This one-day (June 6th, 2022) meeting aims to bring together researchers and policy-makers on issues related to urban economics, regional development, and migrations.
The confirmed main speakers are Diego Puga and Jacques Thisse.
Other confirmed speakers include: Luís Carvalho (FEP.UP, Portugal), Pasquale Commendatore (University of Naples ‘Federico II’, Italy), Kiyohiro Ikeda (Tohoku University, Japan), Patrícia Melo (ISEG, Portugal), Minoru Osawa (Kyoto University, Japan), and João Pereira dos Santos (Nova SBE, Portugal).
Registration is free but please register by using the following link until May 6th, 2022.
The workshop is financed by national funds through FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., in the context of project PTDC/EGE-ECO/30080/2017: “Nova Economia Geográfica, Desenvolvimento Regional e Migrações”. We thank FCT, CEF.UP and FEP-UP for their support.
The organizing committee,
Sofia Castro
João Correia-da-Silva
Liliana Garrido-da-Silva
José Gaspar
Vasco Leite
Program
| Download program here | Titles and abstracts | ||
|---|---|---|
| 09h15-09h30 | Opening | Room 260 |
| 09h30-10h00 | Understanding economic diversification in peripheral regions: the role of institutional relatedness | Luís Carvalho |
| 10h00-10h30 | Global-Local Spatial Platform for Economic Geography: Analysis of Sustain Bifurcation | Kiyohiro Ikeda |
| 10h30-11h00 | Potential games and urban spatial structure | Minoru Osawa |
| 11h00-11h30 | Coffee-break | |
| 11h30-12h30 | Urban growth and its aggregate implications | Diego Puga |
| Lunch | ||
| 14h30-15h00 | Big or small? A new economic geography model with an endogenous switch in the market structure | Pasquale Commendatore |
| 15h00-15h30 | Going Big in a Small Country: Motorways, Urban Growth and Sprawl in Portugal | Patrícia Melo |
| 15h30-16h00 | Cousins From Overseas: The Labour Market Impact of Half a Million Portuguese Repatriates | João Pereira dos Santos |
| Coffee-break | ||
| 16h30-17h30 | A Unified Theory of Cities | Jacques Thisse |
| 17h30-17h45 | Closing | Sandra Silva |
