27 February 2007 - Chancellors Conference Centre
The provisional programme is as follows:
Tuesday 27 February
- 10:30am Arrival, registration and refreshments
- 11:00am - 12:30pm Transport improvements, agglomeration economies and city productivity: at what point did motorised transport raise British wages?
- Nick Crafts, University of Warwick & CEPR
- Tim Leunig, London School of Economics
- 12:30pm - 1:30pm Lunch
- 1:30pm - 3:00pm Assessing the effects of local taxation using microgeographic data
- Henry G. Overman, London School of Economics
- Co-authors: Laurent Gobillon, Institut National d’Etudes Démographiques and Gilles Duranton, University of Toronto
- 3:00pm - 4:30pm Industrial Location: A Harmonization of Two Natures
- Pierre M. Picard, University of Manchester; and CORE, Universit´e catholique de Louvain, Belgium,
- Dao-Zhi Zeng, Kagawa University, Japan
- 4:30pm - 5:30pm Tea
- 5:30pm - 7:00pm Assessing the impact of higher R&D tax credit in Northern Ireland
- Richard Harris, University of Glasgow
- 7:30pm - 9:00pm Dinner
- 9:00pm After-dinner session (TBA)
- Graham Meadows
Formerly Director-General of DG-Regio, the European Commission, Brussels
Abstracts from submitted papers are available here.
For more information about the themes of the conference please contact Mike Artis at michael.artis@manchester.ac.uk.
To reserve a place at the conference or enquire about accommodation, bookings etc., please contact Aubrey Scully at aubrey.scully@manchester.ac.uk or 0161 275 8080.
For more information about Chancellors Conference Centre, including travel directions, please visit the Chancellors website.