New Publication. 🏙️📈 Thrilled to share that our paper, “𝘿𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙍𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙡 𝙄𝙣𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚 𝙏𝙚𝙣𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙐𝙣𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙤𝙮𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩?”, has been published in the 𝐉𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐔𝐫𝐛𝐚𝐧 𝐄𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐬!!! 🚀 🚀 🚀 (with Hanchen Jiang and Xi Yang). Thread.

The call for papers for the 4th Annual #LAUrban Meeting is out! Amazing speakers on cities in an amazing city! submit here: urbanlacea@gmail.com

(no reg fee; accommodation covered!)

New #chatgpt model offered to describe me based on our chats and came up with:

You're Luis Quintero — part urban economist, part policy sage, part literary soul.

Excited to share insights from @the_IDB Economists Network Seminar! Michel Peter (Yale University) presented his paper Spatial Structural Change, exploring how local economic development intersects with aggregate structural change in the U.S. economy (1880–1920). 🧵
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Second paper in the session is by Kensuke Teshima: From Samurai to Skyscrapers: How Transaction Costs Shape Tokyo. #LAUrban Taller buildings have a larger footprint. Could lowering transaction of costs of integrating lots promote tall buildings?
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A actually, the paper finds that both happen, depending on your proximity to the new metro station, and the overall density of the city. Results are worldwide using trip data for Uber for 35 countries. Amazing.
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I am happy to be in Mexico for our 3rd LACEA’s #LAUrban at @Banxico starting now! Thanks to our local organizers and LAUrban members who have helped in making this a reality! Lorenzo Aldeco, @jorpppp, @guillermo_alves, @JDelaRocaUSC

Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield. Builds and never ends. Heard of it endlessly but had not listened to it. Mind blown.