73rd International Atlantic Economic Conference

March 28 - 31, 2012 | Istanbul, Turkey

146 R10-1-4002 Urban and Regional Economics

Thursday, 29 March 2012: 4:30 PM-6:30 PM
Chair:
Warwick McKibbin, Australian National University—Australia
Socioeconomic and demographic determinants of the votes for mergers of municipalities
Bocar Ba, University of Chicago—USA; Georges A. Tanguay, Université du Québec à Montréal—Canada; Jean-Sébastien Chevrier, Natural Resources Canada—Canada
Price responsiveness of housing investments across major European economies
Ioannis Ganoulis, European Central Bank—Germany; Luca Gattini, European Central Bank—Germany
Business perceptions of drug cartels: Views from El Paso, Texas
Alejandro Jose Maria Palma, University of Texas at El Paso—USA; Roberto Tinerajo, University of Texas at El Paso—USA; Dennis L. Soden, University of Texas at El Paso—USA
On the existence of the education Kuznets curve in China
Keiji Hashimoto, Otemon Gakuin University—Japan
Discussants:
Luca Gattini, European Central Bank—Germany ; Georges A. Tanguay, Université du Québec à Montréal—Canada ; Keiji Hashimoto, Otemon Gakuin University—Japan and Dennis L. Soden, University of Texas at El Paso—USA