The 2023 Barcelona Workshop on Regional and Urban Economics, will be held in Barcelona on October 26th-27th, 2023 in “Sala 2019”, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Barcelona.

Program

Thursday, October 26th 2023
15:30Welcome and opening act: Ramon Alemany (Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitat de Barcelona)
15:45Keynote Lecture: Lewis Dijkstra (Joint Research Centre of the European Commission); Is the world far more urban than we realised? New insights from new definitions and new data
Chair: Alessia Matano (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”)
16:45Coffee break
17:001st Contributed session
Chair: David Castells-Quintana (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona & AQR-IREA)
 Miguel Puente-Ajovín (Universidad de Zaragoza), Marcos Sanso-Navarro (Universidad de Zaragoza) and María Vera-Cabello (Centro Universitario de la Defensa de Zaragoza); Comparing city size distributions: Gridded population vs. nighttime lights  
 Paolo Veneri (Gran Sasso Science Institute) and Nicola Pontarollo (University of Brescia);Good-life cities: Identifying the local conditions driving subjective wellbeing in European cities
 Alberto Hidalgo (IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca); Your room is ready: Tourism and urban revival
20:30Workshop dinner (by invitation only).

Friday, October 27th 2023
9:30Keynote Lecture: Elisa Gianone (Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREi), Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) and Penn State)
Chair: Enrique Lopez-Bazo (UB, AQR-IREA)
10:30Coffee break
11:002nd Contributed session
Chair: Vicente Royuela (UB, AQR-IREA)
 Tasos Kitsos (Aston University), Max Nathan (UCL and CEP), Diana Gutierrez-Posada (University of Oviedo); Creative destruction? Creative firms, workers and residential gentrification
 Riga Qi (CERGE-EI, Charles University and the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences);Destroy and build? Economic effects of centres de regroupament in the Algerian war
 David Gomtsyan (CERDI) “Building the city under financial frictions”
13:00Closing Act and Informal Lunch