Online Spatial & Urban Seminar

A Zoom-based Economics Workshop
Mondays 11:30am-12:45pm (ET)

organized by
Francisco Amaral, Amanda Ang, Olivia Bordeu, Leonardo D'Amico, Seohee Kim, and Giorgio Pietrabissa

Registration:
To receive the Zoom link for the seminars please register on the Zoom webinar page. If you have participated in the last two seasons of the OSUS seminar, you do not need to register again.


Spring 2026

February 23, 2026: John Mondragon (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco). Co-authored with Schuyler Louie and Johannes Wieland.
Supply Constraints do not Explain House Price and Quantity Growth Across U.S. Cities

March 9, 2026: Hans Koster (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam). Co-authored with Gabriel Loumeau.
Urban Decline and Path-dependency: Evidence from Coal-Mining areas

March 23, 2026: Daniel Velasquez (Claremont McKenna College).
Highways, Commuting and Trade: Unpacking Suburban Growth

April 20, 2026: Lei Ma (Georgia Terry College of Business).
Build What and for Whom? The Distributional Effects of Housing Supply

May 4, 2026: Laura Weiwu (UC Berkeley). Co-authored with Vincent Rollet.
Measuring Winners and Losers from Increasing Housing Supply

May 18, 2026: Ben Keys (Wharton School). Co-authored with Jessie Handbury and Sam Hughes.
Segmentation and Returns on Rental Housing

June 1, 2026: Fernando Ferreira (Wharton School). Co-authored with Heidi Artigue, Patrick Bayer, and Stephen Ross.
Does Homeownership Matter? The Long-Term Consequences of Losing a House during the Great Recession