Honoured and delighted to receive the 2025 Maurice Allais Prize in Economics, together with Gilles Duranton, for our paper Urban Growth and its Aggregate Implications (Econometrica, @ecmaeditors.bsky.social, 2023). 📷: Peter Gunnar

Llego a Alicante y veo este anuncio por la calle de los premios #JaimeI Premios Rei Jaume I y me ha parecido muy ingenioso, irónico, innovador y hecho con talento. Una estupenda idea. Enhorabuena al diseñador o diseñadora o publicista que lo ha ideado, por esta propuesta diferente.

These are 10 of my favourite #UrbanEconomics articles published in academic journals in 2024 (continues a tradition started in 2018, order is alphabetical by first author, no ranking implied):

Governments should provide data on quality of public service provision, but often don’t. Thanks to Spain’s Freedom of Information Act & journalists like Montse Hidalgo, @danielegrasso.bsky.social & @iguacel.bsky.social we get facts like map of delays getting appointment with family doctor t.ly/Jnh_L

The final day of the 49th Symposium of the Spanish Economic Association kicked off on a high note with a social running event in beautiful Palma de Mallorca. A big thank you to everyone who joined!

Applications to the Masters & PhD at @cemfi.es are now open. Today, Friday 29 Nov at 3pm CET we are holding an online information meeting for prospective students. Sign up here: bit.ly/3CGlXAb

Congratulations to @GioPietrabissa on his PhD defense before joining @LSEGeography in the fall. I feel very lucky to have been his advisor with Paula Bustos. Thanks to @JDelaRocaUSC, David Nagy & @m_saintmary for examining & to @MilenaAlmagro for her role in Giorgio's Committee https://t.co/bAjp...

I am looking for a predoctoral fellow based at CEMFI to assist in the ERC-funded research project "City buzz: Quantity, quality, and variety implications of the urban environment" for one year starting September 2024 Application deadline 31 July...

Fantastic papers by @MilanQuentel, @PonsardJade & @anaisfabre_econ awarded the winner and runner-up prizes for the UEA Best Student paper. Very different but all with original interesting question & careful implementation. I very much enjoyed being part of the prize committee https://t.co/YhvTumxtrK

Another year of @CEMFInews runners enjoying a beautiful Sunday morning in Madrid running through the city in @thevintagerun 10k! https://x.com/kaytansevin/status/1797228820031766732 https://x.com/ProfDiegoPuga/status/1797324750437359929/photo/1

Congratulations Dani (@darribas) on being awarded the Royal Geographic Society's (@RGS_IBG) Taylor & Francis Award for "leading the way in integrating data science into geography"! https://x.com/darribas/status/1787982207685947705

Thrilled & grateful to get an ERC Advanced Grant for "City Buzz: Quantity, quality, and variety implications of the urban environment." My research career would not be possible without the 3 Adv. Grants from @ERCResearch supporting my research at @CEMFINews since 2012. Thank you https://t.co/wD2...

Neat in @AEAJournals Policy by Borraz, @NicolsGonzlezP4, @CarozziFelipe & Zipitría. Uses place-based tax break to show housing stock growth raises grocery variety, lowers prices, little store change. Rationalised w/ @Thierry__Mayer, Melitz, Ottaviano model...

The @FundacioIEB Workshop on Urban Economics in Barcelona is always one of the most interesting and fun conferences on spatial topics. Applications open until 4 March, workshop 10-12 June 2024 https://t.co/5I4MWLl21A https://t.co/djUQwE5a1U

Having @monicambravo as a colleague is a great perk of @CEMFINews. With her appointment to lead Spain's social inclusion policies, Mónica goes from informing policy with RCTs to making informed decisions herself, a big step towards evidence-based policies & effective inclusion https://t.co/EZ603...

Carmen Valero shattered barriers as Spain's first female Olympic athlete & 2-time World XC Champion in an era when women were largely excluded from sports & other male-dominated roles. Spain's dramatic evolution since then is a tribute to her pioneering spirit & lasting legacy https://t.co/XjHyk...

Un privilegio haber estado en el Consejo Asesor de Asuntos Económicos. Gracias @NadiaCalvino y su equipo por la confianza y el liderazgo económico en una época compleja, lo mejor para la nueva etapa en @EIB y enhorabuena al nuevo ministro de Economía @carlos_cuerpo, gran elección https://t.co/3K...

You can also look back at my lists of 10 #UrbanEconomics articles published in 2022 (https://t.co/QBxHrwwd0D), 2021 (https://t.co/9r57v8PKhf), 2020 (https://t.co/jPqso22OWj), 2019 (https://t.co/WVSnUJbaGQ) & 2018 (https://t.co/3tAaXJYnFJ)

i) Leonardi & Moretti, @AEAjournals AER Insights. Estimates agglomeration externalities from abolition of Milan regulation forcing minimum distance across restaurants; leads to cross-neighbourhood divergence, greater concentration triggers differentiation https://t.co/2iFSrWfQ1N

g) Hsieh & @HansbergRossi, @JPolEcon Macro. New tech allowing service firms to scale up over many locations has increased national market concentration but decreased concentration & promoted variety at local level, particularly small & mid-sized US cities https://t.co/7AfPt0E266

e) Duranton & Puga, @ecmaEditors. Growth model in urban system where endogenous planning regulations balance agglomeration against congestion to suit incumbents; estimates urban benefits & costs elasticities, studies novel predictions & counterfactuals https://t.co/7qmNFhP68f

d) @AdrienBilal, @QJEHarvard. With French & US data shows spatial unemployment gaps are driven mostly by different job-losing rates, shaped by local employers not workers; offers model where employers’ location choices & frictions create such differences https://t.co/wLi96M2aIO

c) Barwick, Liu, @EleonoraPatacc2 & Wu, @AEAjournals AER. Separates spatially correlated job choices from referrals using phone calls; switches to contact’s workplace more likely than similar same-neighbourhood job; referrer calls spike around job switch https://t.co/UjvlLh6nzd

a) @prottoyakbar, Couture, Duranton & Storeygard, @AEAjournals AER. City-level speed indices for India & US from Google Maps queries, decomposed into uncongested speed & congestion; cross-city speed variation due more to uncongested speed than congestion https://t.co/lmnUxiMojX

These are 10 of my favourite #UrbanEconomics articles published in academic journals in 2023, continuing with a tradition from the last few years (order is alphabetical by first author, no ranking implied):

Group run in Salamanca for a great start of the day at the 48th Simposium of the Spanish Economic Association. Thanks to everyone who joined, including @AEEmedia President @NataliaFabra, Programme Chair @monicambravo & Plenary Speaker Noam Yuchtman

This #EconJobMarket season, @CEMFINews is hiring up to 2 tenure-track Assistant Professors. After a careful review of the 665 applications received, taking into account not just the candidates’ qualities but also the fit with our needs, we have sent out 38 interview invitations

Interesting plot of left and right votes in Spain’s general election by census track income: left dominates up to 7 percentile, tied until 40, left up to 89 (Sumar’s strong urban vote), then right at the top. @raulsanchezglez & @VictriaVic in @elDiarioes...

Paper with Duranton accepted in @ecmaEditors has growth model in urban system where endogenous planning regulations balance agglomeration & congestion to suit incumbents, estimates urban benefit & cost elasticities, studies predictions & counterfactuals 🧵...

What a fun Sunday morning running through Madrid towards Casa de Campo with so many @CEMFInews runners on @thevintagerun 10k!

Training run in @_ElRetiro with our new @CEMFInews @tracksmith running tees, getting ready for Sunday's @thevintagerun 10k

Impressed by how @danimateria communicates complex science topics to broad audience in @el_pais. Today he discusses how the productive advantages of cities are larger for more productive firms and workers, with quotes by @MarcKeuschnigg, @JDelaRocaUSC & me...

Nice @TheEconomist coverage of @gboeing's research (https://doi.org/10.1080/01944363.2020.1819382, https://doi.org/10.1007/s41109-019-0189-1) studying street networks (and their griddedness) across the world and their evolution in the US...

These are 10 of my favourite #UrbanEconomics articles published in 2022, in alphabetical order by author, continuing with a tradition from the last few years

We associate innovation with density, yet much innovation happens in suburbs. But dense areas host more patent variety. Also, atypical patent references show dense area innovations build more on unconventional combinations. @enrico_berkes & @ruben_gaetani:...

Enlightening view of future of global value chains & globalization from @pol_antras‘s presentation & Gianmarco Ottaviano’s discussion at @BancoDeEspana research conference. Stress on persistent inequalities & trade networks where political alignment matters as much as...

DiD of pedestrianised areas in Madrid, Barcelona & Valencia 2010-12 vs propensity-score-matched non-neighbouring controls finds increased sales (@BBVAResearch card transactions) if store density high (mainly restaurants & cafes), lower sales if density low...

Cool data by @OtoPeralias on Spanish street names in interactive map form: https://en.stnameslab.com/. Application with Dolores Gutiérrez-Mora shows female share of non-religious street names strongly correlated with gender differences in labour activity, education & housework

Building-level timing of urban development in Spain in superb @eldiarioes piece by @raulsanchezglez using cadastre data. Set a date in interactive map to see whether each current building was built before or after then...

These are 10 of my favourite #UrbanEconomics articles published in 2021, continuing with a tradition from the last few years (numbering is not a ranking, but an alphabetical ordering by authors' last names)

On 7th marathon, finally raced with the confidence to keep steady effort & speed up for final 8k. 3rd marathon at same average @strydrunning power, flat course made @maratonvalencia faster than 2018 @nycmarathon, wind slower than 2019 @ChiMarathon, good strategy gave it best feel

12th Conference on Urban and Regional Economics (CURE), December 1 & 2 at @CEMFInews, with @FundacioIEB & @cepr_org. Presenters & discussants in person, other participants online. Programme: https://www.cemfi.es/computing/events/cure.asp. Registration for online...

Today, we held SUCRE (the Spatial & Urban Coffee REndezvous) at the namesake coffee place (@SucreSalonDeTe) across the street from @CEMFINews, to discuss research on cities and space without the formality that classrooms often impose. (1/2)

Conference in Urban and Regional Economics (CURE) happening in person in Madrid at @CEMFInews 1 and 2 December in collaboration with @cepr_org & @FundacioIEB, organized by M. Lafourcade, @eviladecans & me. Presenters & discussants on-site. Apply by 1/11:...

Back to racing at @MadridCorre! @PhillyRun pace team singlet is a nod to the last time wearing a bib, ages ago. Too bad running the @bostonmarathon (and visiting Wharton Real State) this fall appears increasingly unlikely with US restrictions on travel from the EU still in place

Over 50% of Spain’s population now fully vaccinated against Covid (above US, reaching UK) & still vaccinating over 1% of population daily. 99% of pop. over 70 & 90% over 50 fully vaccinated, key in keeping hospitalisations low despite case upsurge, but not out of the woods...

Congratulations to @cabralestweet on being awarded the Rei Jaume I Prize in Economics (@PremiosReiJaume)!

Enjoyed being interviewed by Miguel Ángel Domínguez in @radio5_rne's "La Entrevista." We talked about globalisation; work-from-home & gender inequalities; how a dual labour market, unaffordable housing & lack of pension reform hit Spain's youngest, etc. ...

Covid-19 is significantly increasing inequalities. Today in @nadaesgratis, Beatriz González López-Valcárcel & I summarise a report by the Workgroup providing scientific advice to Spain’s Government on Covid-19 that we are part of (auto-translated version:...

Early this morning at home, three already online, two holding on until the last minute