Online Spatial & Urban Seminar

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Fall 2026

September 14, 2026: Cameron LaPoint (Yale School of Management). Co-authored with Gustavo Cortes.
Housing Is the Financial Cycle: Evidence from 100 Years of Local Building Permits

September 28, 2026: Nicolas Coeurdacier (Sciences Po). Co-authored with Cécile Gaubert and Emeric Henry.
Farms, Forests and Cities: Structural Transformation of Land and the Carbon Balance

October 12, 2026: Yueran Ma (University of Chicago Booth School of Business). Co-authored with Francisco Buera, Martin Kornejew, Ezra Oberfield, and Nicholas Trachter.
The Spatial Concentration of Innovation over the (Very) Long Run

October 26, 2026: Victor Couture (University of Toronto). Co-authored with Pierre-Loup Beauregard, David Green, Jeffrey Hicks, and William Warburton.
Pathways into Homelessness

November 9, 2026: Amine Ouazad (HEC Montréal). Co-authored with Clement Gorin, Laurent Gobillon, and Stephan Heblich.
The Eye of the Beholder: Neighbourhood Embeddings and Housing Prices

November 23, 2026: Christian Hilber (London School of Economics). Co-authored with Brian Greaney, Hans Koster, Gabriel Loumeau, and Andrii Parkhomenko.
Land Use Regulation, Homeownership, and the Cost of NIMBYism