28 May


Festival Economia 2010 - Trento (Italy)

The economy appears to Trento (Italy) in a festival dedicated to him - the Festival Economia 2010 - and welcomes Alan Kirman, June 4, for a paper entitled: "Bubbles, panic and crashes: what we can learn from ants and bees"
Festival Economia 2010 - June 3-6 - Program


30 April


Why Humanity Loves, Needs, Cities?

Edward L. Glaeser, professor of economics at Harvard wrote a blog "Why Humanity Loves, Needs, Cities" in The New York Times. He quotes a study conducted by Pierre-Philippe Combes, GREQAM researcher, joint with three other researchers (1 ).

Published April 13, this forum explains why people choose to live in very dense cities when huge territories are free. If the emergence of cities is certainly due to the fact that they connect people and enable them to learn from each other, what happens when cities subsequently further increase their size? A NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research) conference organized 30 months ago delivered a book published in February 2010 with many new insights into these issues.

Whereas it is clear that wages and productivity are positively correlated with density, the question tackled by the French researchers is whether causality goes from density to productivity (cities make agents more productive) or in the reverse direction (high productivity attracts agents, making cities larger).

The forum on line

(1) "Estimating Agglomeration Economies with History, Geology, and Worker Effects", Pierre-Philippe Combes, Gilles Duranton, Laurent Gobillon, Sébastien Roux in Agglomeration Economics (dir. E.L. Glaeser), ed. University of Chicago Press, février 2010, p.15-65. Document de travail Greqam 2008-51.


28 April


The 2010 Geneva Association’s Ernst Meyer Prize attributed to Renaud Bourlès

Renaud Bourles lecturer at École Centrale Marseille (France) and researcher at Greqam is the 2010 laureate of the Ernst Meyer Prize.

The Geneva Association awards every year the prestigious Ernst Meyer Prize for university research work, usually in the form of a doctoral thesis, which makes a significant and original contribution to the study of risk and insurance economics.



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