8:45 am Continental Breakfast

9:10 am Gilles Duranton (University of Toronto) Roads and Trade: Evidence from the US (joint with Peter M. Morrow and Matthew A. Turner)

10:10 am Break

10:30 am Hoyt Bleakley (University of Chicago) Land Openings on the Georgia Frontier and the Coase Theorem in the Short- and Long-Run (joint with Joseph Ferrie)

11:30 am Lunch

1:00 pm Walker Hanlon (UCLA), TBA

2:00 Break

2:20 Stephen Redding (Princeton University) The Economics of Density: Evidence from the Berlin Wall (joint with Gabriel Ahlfedlt, Daniel Sturm and Nikolaus Wolf)

3:20 adjourn

3:30 coffee with graduate students

Papers will be available at the von Gremp seminar web site