Current Issues in Urban and Real Estate Economics: A Conference of the Urban and Regional Analysis Group, Friday, September 19, 2003

This conference brings together leading scholars in urban and real estate economics to discuss their current academic research. Topics cover empirical methodology issues, price formation in urban property markets, the effects of land use regulation, and transportation and land use. The conference goal is to provide a venue for leading researchers in the field to present their research to and meet with Georgia State faculty and graduate students interested in topics in urban, regional, and real estate economics.

Conference Schedule
Friday, September 19, 2003

7:30—8:30 a.m.
Continental Breakfast at the Sinclair Suite (Student Center 2nd floor)

Moderator: Geoffrey K. Turnbull (Georgia State University)

Conference participants.

8:30 a.m.
Thomas G. Thibodeau (Southern Methodist University) and Allen Goodman (Wayne State University)
“The Spatial Proximity of within Metropolitan Area Housing Submarkets”

9:30 a.m.
Alan Gelfand (Duke University) and C. F. Sirmans (University of Connecticut)
“Real Estate Problems, Spatial Modeling, and Bayesian Inference”

10:45 a.m.
Henry O. Pollakowski (MIT)
“Neighborhood-level Residential Investment Spillover Effects”

11:45—1:15 p.m.
Lunch in the Lanier Suite (Student Center 2nd floor)

1:30 p.m.
Sessions continue in the Sinclair Suite (Student Center 2nd floor)
Donald R. Haurin (Ohio State University)
“The Sustainability of Homeownership: Factors Affecting the Duration of Homeownership and Rental Spells”

2:30 p.m.
Jan K. Brueckner (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
“Transport Subsidies, System Choice, and Urban Sprawl”

3:30 p.m.
Peter F. Colwell (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; University of Aberdeen) and Henry Munneke (University of Georgia)
“The Impact of Zoning on the Price of Vacant Land: An Endogenous Dummy Variable Approach”

4:30 p.m.--
Reception in the Lanier Suite (Student Center 2nd floor)
Participants, faculty and graduate students are invited.