Fall 2017 – Fridays, 2:00pm-3:00pm 323 Mumford Hall
September 1st
Sandy Dall’Erba (Associate Professor – ACE): Welcome and introductions
All REAL Members: 3-minute self-introductions
September 8th
Shunlu Hu (PhD Student – Nankai University, China): County-level Industrial Agglomeration and TFP of Manufacturing Firms in Development Zones: An Empirical Analysis of Development Zones in Beijing – Tianjin – Hebei area as an Example (with Jiang Manqi)
Jing Xue (PhD Student – Beijing Jiaotong University, China): Fiscal pressure and the economic returns of railway infrastructure in China
September 15th
NO SEMINAR
September 22nd
Fernando Bermejo Paton (Assistant Professor – University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain): Socio-economic effects of pension spending. Evidence from Spain during the global crisis of 2008
Mi Zhou (Associate Professor – Nankai University, China): Study on the Measurement and Spatial Coordination of the Regional Absorptive Capacities in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei
September 29th
Jamilly Dias dos Santos (PhD Student – Federal University of Bahia, Brazil): Intertemporal Allocation of Rents from Exhaustible Natural Resources for Developing Economies
Daniela Lima Ramos (PhD Student – Federal University of Bahia, Brazil): Urban Economic Growth and Cities Network in Brazil
October 6th
Raquel Langarita (PhD Student – University of Zaragoza, Spain): Electricity sector in Spain: Challenges and approach to its modelization in Economics
Ticiana Grecco Zanon Moura (PhD Student – University of Oviedo, Spain): Influence of the pattern of foreign trade on the internal distribution of traffic flows: the Spanish case
Orsa Kekezi (PhD Student – Jonkoping University, Sweden): Relatedness of Skills and Knowledge Spillovers: The Case of the Swedish Computer Game Industry
October 13th
Andre Avelino (PhD Student – ACE): Revisiting the Temporal Leontief Inverse: new insights on regional structural change
Rolando Valdez Ramirez (PhD Student – University of Baja California, Mexico): Economic growth, externalities, and their spatial diffusion in Mexico
October 20th
Fernando Rubiera Morollon (Associate Professor – University of Oviedo, Spain): Analysis of the economic consequences of urban sprawl in the Spanish cities: urban sprawl and fiscal burden
Volodymyr Ryaboshlyk (PhD – Ukraine): An Extension of the Leontief Inverse Analysis for Upgrading the Accuracy of Economic Forecasting
October 27th
Raissa Carvalho Braganca (PhD Student – Federal University of Parana, Brazil): Impact of high education institutions on regional growth in Brazil
Nikolaos Kalyviotis (PhD Student – University of Birmingham, UK): Infrastructure Management: Devise of a Business Model for Transport Infrastructure Interdependencies Management
November 3rd
Alfredo Cartone (PhD Student – University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy): Spatial Effects in Deprivation Index at Regional Level
Matteo Foglia (PhD Student – University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy): The Time-Spatial Dimension of Contagion
November 10th
NO SEMINAR – NARSC Conference
November 17th
Zhangliang Chen (PhD Student – ACE): Drought, Interstate Trade and Agricultural Profit: Theory and Evidence
Kun Peng (PhD Student – ACE): The role of interregional and inter-sectoral knowledge spillovers on regional knowledge creation across US metropolitan counties
November 24th
NO SEMINAR – Thanksgiving Week
December 1st
Haozhi Pan (PhD – Postdoc REAL): The Impacts of Highspeed Railway on Urban Growth in Yangtze Delta, China – A Multilevel Spatiotemporal Modeling Approach
Chang Cai (PhD Student – ACE): Heterogeneity of Climate Change Impact on U.S. Agriculture: A Multilevel Analysis
December 8th
Yizhou Zhang (PhD Student – ACE): Asymmetry and Threshold in Tax-Induced Migration of Top Scientists
Sandy Dall’Erba (Director – REAL): On Deriving Reduced-Form Spatial Econometric Models from Theory and Their Ws from Observed Flows: Example Based on the Regional Knowledge Production Function
Spring 2017 – Thursdays, 11:00am-noon 323 Mumford Hall
January 19th
Sandy Dall’Erba (Associate Professor – ACE): Welcome and Introduction
January 26th
Luciano Nakabashi (Associate Professor – University of Sao Paulo, Brazil): Institutions and criminality: some evidence from Sao Paulo State
Andre Avelino (PhD Student – ACE): Disaggregating Input-Output Tables in Time: the Temporal Input-Output Framework
February 2nd
Metin Piskin (PhD Student – Istanbul Technical University, Turkey): Spatial Computable General Equilibrium Model for Analysis of Transportation Investments in Turkey
Jing Xue (PhD Student – Beijing Jiaotong University, China): The Problems in Beijing Urban Rail Transit Network Development and Solutions and Marketization, railway infrastructure and economic growth in China
February 9th
Andres Ham (PhD Candidate – ACE): The Effects of Increased Access to Video Gambling on Crime in Chicago (with Nicolas Bottan and Ignacio Sarmiento-Barbieri)
February 16th
NO SEMINAR – WRSA Conference
February 23rd
Zhangliang Chen (PhD Student – ACE): The Ricardian model of climate change impact meets the Ricardian model of interregional trade: theory and evidence (with Fang Fang and Sandy Dall’erba)
March 2nd
Haozhi Pan (PhD Student – DURP): Understanding Land-use Change with Complex Urban System Sciences: Discovering Human Settling and Crowd Mobility Patterns in Networks
March 9th
Shunlu Hu (PhD Student – Nankai University, China): Spillover Effect of Special Economic Zones and the Economic Performance of Peripheral Area Firms (with Hongjun Xie)
March 16th
Chang Cai (PhD Student – ACE): The economic impact of climate change on US Agriculture: A multilevel analysis (with Sandy Dall’erba)
March 23rd
NO SEMINAR – Spring Break Week
March 30th
Aparna Howlade (PhD Student – ACE): Long-term Persistent Impact of Federal Land Conservation Policies: Evidence from Land Utilization Policies in 1933-1942
Renato Vieira (PhD Candidate – ACE): The Effects of a Transit Fare Exemption for the Elderly in Brazil
April 6th
Whayoung Jung (PhD Student – ECON): Analysis of nonstationary times series and business cycle with Markov-Switching model
Daniel Halim (PhD Student – ECON): The agriculture comeback: old-age farming as a coping mechanism
April 13th
Natalie Prochaska (PhD Student – DURP): Bristol Park Neighborhood Plan: Urban Renewal in Post-Kelo Fiscal Policy Space
Sergio Contreras (PhD Student – DURP): A Simultaneous Model of Youth Entrepreneurship and Financial Inclusion Across Developing Countries
April 20th
Cristina Miller (PhD – USDA): Impact of Rural Hospital Closures on Housing Values
April 27th
Kun Peng (PhD Student – ACE): The role of interregional and inter-sectoral knowledge spillovers on regional knowledge creation across US metropolitan counties (with Sandy Dall’erba and Dongwoo Kang)
Renata Caldas (PhD, Visiting Assistant Professor ECON/UIUC): Impacts of Microcredit Program on Employment and Income in the Brazilian Semiarid Area
May 1st
*Extra Seminar (2:30pm – 4:00pm @ 137D Davenport Hall)
Marcus Vinicius Amaral (PhD Student – Federal University of Huiz de Fora, Brazil): Effects of the qualification of the workforce on the distribution of income and poverty reduction in Brazil
Yizhou Zhang (PhD Student – ACE): Positive/Negative Selection in Illinois Interstate Migration
May 4th
Rodger Antunes (PhD Student – University of Sao Paulo, Brazil): Earmarking unconstitutionality and its impact on housing deficit: Evidence from Sao Paulo State, Brazil