2020-21
Lent Term 2021 Seminars:
- 3/02/2021: Cities in the world: A new perspective on urbanisation
- 10/02/2021: Resilient Sustainability Planning. Or was it sustainable resilience planning?
- 17/02/2021: Thinking about ideology and planning
- 24/02/2021: How much will rural school costs increase in the future and what can policies do about it?
- 03/03/2021: Planning for residential ‘value’? Urban densification policies and real estate impacts in London
- 10/03/2021: Mainstream vs. “Heterodox” Economics? Some core theoretical elements of contrast
- 17/03/2021: The Story of the Magic Money Tree and Modern Monetary Theory
- Tagliaferri Lecture 23rd June 2021
Land Economy REF Seminar Series Lent Term 2021
2019-20
Michaelmas 2019 Seminars:
- Oct 9 Michelle Baddeley Social influences on small area housing choices: Econometric evidence and implications for land use policy
- Oct 16 Prof Peter Midmore Exploring attributes of resilience: robustness, adaptability and transformation in East Anglian farmer narratives
- Oct 23 Gary Pivo Responisble property investing: Retrospect and Prospect
- Oct 30 Dr Timea Nochta A Governance perspective on urban modelling and “city digital twins” (CDT’s)
- Nov 6 Prof Rebecca Tunstall Is housing growth ever inclusive growth? Evidence from England 1981-2011
- Nov 13 Duncan Bowie Strategic planning, housing supply in London and the review of the London Plan
- Nov 20 Joanna Kusiak The Politics of Law and Economy: Struggles for the Remunicipalization of Housing in Berlin
- Nov 27 Dr Sónia Alves Planning policies and Social/Affordable Housing Practices in Lisbon, London and Copenhagen
Lent 2020 Seminars:
- Jan 29 Geoffrey Payne Managing urban land markets in the public interest
- Feb 5 Professor Renaud Le Goix Wealth Inequalities and the Spatial Dynamics of Housing Market in France: A Research Agenda
- Feb 12 Dr Lovisa Persson The Impact of Attending an Independent Upper Secondary School: Evidence from Sweden using School Ranking Data
- Feb 19 Yaprak Tavman CANCELLED Well-being and financial indicators: Linking individual and macro data in a cross-country analysis
- Feb 26 Professor Bart Los The Competitiveness of Italian Regions in the Age of Global Value Chains Mar 4 Professor Gulcin Ozkan CANCELLED What will hurt the UK economy most after Brexit: restrictions on trade, capital or migration?
- Mar 11 Alice Sindzingre CANCELLED Mainstream’ vs. ‘heterodox’ economics? Some core theoretical elements of contrast
2018-19
Michaelmas 2018 Seminars:
- Oct 10 Dr Paulo Morgado Sousa GIS-ANN scenario building model of alterna-tive futures. A contribution for a spatial deci-sion support system
- Oct 17 Dr Roger Fouquet The Long Run Demand for Energy Services and Energy Transitions
- Oct 24 Prof Yuzhe Wu Urbanization and Land Use Policy in China
- Oct 31 Dr Jean-Francois Mercure The macroeconomic consequences of stranded fossil fuel assets
- Nov 7 Dr Reyhaneh Shojaei Assessing the factors influencing the land acquisition and site selection
- Nov 14 Prof Bruce Huber Negative Value Property
- Nov 21 Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis Spatial differences in the returns to educa-tion: sorting, agglomeration and pressures of demand
- Nov 28 Dr Sónia Alves International comparative analysis of housing and Land Use Planning
Lent 2019 Seminars:
- Jan 23 Ann Pettifor Public Debt as a Valuable Asset for Globalised Finance
- Jan 30 Michael Kitson Innovation policy and place: a critical assessment
- Feb 6 Ralf Martin Industrial Policy and (clean) growth
- Feb 13 Eva Purkarthofer Interpretation, implementation and instrumental-isation of European spatial planning in Austria
- Feb 20 Rui Alexandre Castanho Cross boarder cooperation (CBC) directions and principles: Fostering sustainable development
- Feb 27 Laura James Trust and Internet Technology
- Mar 6 Eddie Hui Sentiment, housing price and consumption
- Mar 13 Peter Phelps Inequality, liberalization and financialisation: panel evidence at the sub-national scale
2017-18
Michaelmas 2017 Seminars:
- Oct 11 Professor Antonio Páez Built environment and violent crime: An environmental audit approach using Google Street View
- Oct 18 Dr Raul Sanchis Lifestyle Dynamics Index: Worldwide Results and household economic implications
- Oct 25 Dr Ian Lewis A Digital Architecture for Adaptive Cities
- Nov 1 McKay Price Cross-Border Real Estate Investment
- Nov 8 Dr Dominik Rehse, Markets caught in the headlights
- Nov 15 Dr Yiannis Kitromilides Brexit does not mean Brexit
- Nov 22 Patricia Peinado The Great Recession, unemployment and pensions: the case of Spanish regions
- Nov 29 Carl Atkin Institutional and private capital flows into in-ternational farmland
Lent 2018 Seminars:
- Jan 24 Thiago Morello Fire, Tractors and Health in the Amazon: a Cost-Benefit Analysis of Fire Policy Based in Stated Preferences
- Jan 31 Ahmad Seyf Can Tax Reforms Reduce Inequality?
- Feb 7 Prof Claudia Girardone Bank Credit Rating Changes, Capital Structure Adjustments and Lending
- Feb 14 Prof Cecilia Wong Planning for Sustainable Urbanisation in China: a Community Perspective
- Feb 21 Dr Nikodem Szumilo Prices of Peers: Identifying Endogenous Price Effects Between Real Assets
- Feb 28 Dr Fernando Garrefa The Rise and Fall of the Shopping Mall: Dialogues on the Relationship of Commerce and City
- Mar 7 Prof Michael Neuman The Loxbridge Triangle: Integrating the East-West Arch into the London Mega-region
- Mar 14 Paul Campion TBC
2016-17
Michaelmas 2016 Seminars:
- Oct 12 Judge Elizabeth Cooke Land law, maps and muddy boots in a special corner of the courts and tribunals system
- Oct 19
- Oct 26 Dr Julian Little "
- Nov 2 Professor Janet Dwyer
- Nov 9 Dr Yiannis Kitromilides
- Nov 16 Dragana Cvijanovic
- Nov 23 Professor Christina Beatty
- Nov 30 Patricia Peinado
Lent 2017 Seminar:
- Jan 25 Professor Alex Schwartz
- Feb 1 David Cowans
- Feb 8 Professor Daniela Magalhães Prates
- Feb 15 Professor Salvatore Di Falco
- Feb 22 Dr Luca Panzone
- Mar 1 Dr. Ayşe Kaya Fiscal consolidation, growth and unemployment in OECD Countries
- Mar 8 Dr Ahmad Seyf
- Mar 15 Dr Peter Phelps
2015-16
Michaelmas 2015 Seminars:
- Seminar 14 October 2015 - Dr Brent Ambrose. Understanding the Risk of China’s Local Government Debts and Its Linkage with Property Markets
- Seminar 21 October 2015 - Dr Erkan Yönder. Fire sales: Good deals or price of low quality?
- Seminar 28 October 2015 - Professor Peter Midmore. Socio-economic impact of agricultural science: the European story
- Seminar 4 November 2015 - Professor John Clapp. Housing Booms and the Return to Salient Fundamentals
- Seminar 11 November 2015 - Professor Heather MacDonald. Understanding the relationship between land use regulation and housing markets in Sydney
- Seminar 18 November 2015 - Professor Noboru Hidano. An Extended-Self, Games and Conflict Resolution Today
- Seminar 25 November 2015 - Dr Saad Saleem Bhatti. A multi-scale modeling approach for simulating urbanization in a metropolitan region
- Seminar 2 December 2015 - Tony Burton CBE MPhil BA FRIBA FRSA. Power to the people - the neighbourhood planning revolution
2014-15
Michaelmas 2014 Seminars:
- Seminar 15 October 2014 - Dr Peter Phelps. Financial Market Implications of Monetary Policy Coordination.
- Seminar 22 Octber 2014 - Dr Michael Llewellyn-Smith. The Value of Land, Planning Controls and the Assessment of Development.
- Seminar 29 October 2014 - Dr Ana Rosa Gonzalez-Martinez. Residential Construction Activity in OECD Economies
- Seminar 5 November 2014 - Professor Robin Boyle. Detroit: Empty City. A Model of Market Failure and Weak Public Planning
- Seminar 12 November 2014 - Professor Laurence Murphy. The Politics of Land Supply and Affordable Housing: Auckland’s Housing Accord and Special Housing Areas.
- Seminar 19 November 2014 - Professor Joseph Ooi. Explaining House Price Dynamics: Isolating the Role of Non-Fundamentals
- Seminar 26 November 2014 - Dr Roderik Ponds. Trickle down in cities? An empirical analysis on the relation between the share of higher educated residents and employment growth for lower-educated in a panel of cities
- Seminar 3 December 2014 - Kelvin MacDonald. Planning and ethics: Should planners be returning to their roots?
Additional Seminars:
- 13 November 2014 - Professor Igor Nikolic. Agent Based Modelling of Large-Scale Socio-Technical Systems.
- 20 November 2014 - Professor Peter Wells. New approaches to addressing youth unemployment? Early findings from the Big Lottery Fund's Talent Match Programme
Lent 2015 Seminars:
- 21 January 2015 - Professor Renaud Le Goix. Neighbourhood change in suburban and ex-urban areas in the Paris metropolitan region: Property-level data and the neighbourhood problem(s) (1996-2012)
- 28 January 2015 - Professor Richard Ronald. Housing markets and the globalisation of generational inequalities.
- 4 February 2015 - Dr Hugh Ellis. Rebuilding Britain.
- 11 February 2015 - Professor Jan Mutl. Testing nonlinear new economic geography models.
- 18 February 2015 - Liz Peace CBE. Perceptions of property - does our industry undersell itself?
- 25 February 2015 - Dr Ronan Lyons. Measuring housing prices over the long run (correctly) - an index for Dublin 1900-2015.
- 4 March 2015 - Dr Erik Gomez-Baggethun. Selling nature or saving nature? Theoretical issues and operational challenges for the green economy.
- 11 March 2015 - Dr Yiannis Kitromilides. Greece and the eurozone crisis- one crisis, two narratives.
2013-14
Lent 2014 Seminars:
- Seminar 22nd January 2014 – Carl Aitken, Kinnagri. Global Farmland: The New Institutional Real Estate Asset Class?
- Seminar 29th January 2014 - Professor Coen Teulings.Land prices, commuting, and transport infrastructure.
- Seminar 5th February 2014 – Professor John Tomaney. Fast track to the North? HS2 and the politics of regional development in the UK.
- Seminar 12th February 2014 – Neil McDonald. Looking into the future: How many homes do we need and what happens if we do not build them?.
- Seminar 19th February 2014 - Professor Chris Webster. Urban wealth modelling: individual effects analysis of planning and design.
- Seminar 26th February 2014 – Professor Michael Oxley. The role of policy in influencing differences between countries in the size of the private rented housing sector.
- Seminar 5th March 2014 – Professor Colin Wren. European Union Accession Events and the Timing of FDI Location: Do Actions Speak Louder than Words?
- Seminar 12th March 2014 – Stuart Knight, NIAB. Raising productivity in arable agriculture: The roles of NIAB and agronomic change.
Michaelmas 2013 Seminars:
- Seminar 16th October 2013 – Dr Yoko Nagase. Integrating Economics and System Dynamics Approaches for Modeling an Ecological-Economic System.
- Seminar 23rd October 2013 – Professor Ricardo Azevedo Araujo. A neo-Kaldorian approach to structural change.
- Seminar 30th October 2013 - Pablo Salas. Decarbonisation of the global power sector in the context of climate change mitigation.
- Seminar 6th November 2013 – Paul Swinney. The work of Centre for Cities.
- Seminar 13th November 2013 - Dr Yiannis Kitromilides. The political economy of austerity.
- Seminar 20th November 2013 - Prof. Joseph Ferreira, Jr., MIT Big Data for Urban Analytics and Land Use Planning.
- Seminar 27th November 2013 – Professor Jorge Viñuales. The international regulation of energy
- Seminar 4th December 2013 - Terrie Alafat. Managing the tensions: Developing housing policy in an era of economic restraint.
2012-13
Lent 2013 Seminars:
- National Fiscal Policy Discipline in Common Currency Areas: Do Enforceable Rules Exist?
Michaelmas 2012 Seminars:
- Dr Catherine MacKenzie. Law, War and Forests: Prospects for an International Forest Treaty.
- Dr Franz Fuerst. Energy efficiency and house prices: is there a link?
- Alex Plant. Delivering Growth in Difficult Times.
- Elias Oikarinen, Martin Hoesli and Camilo Serrano. Response Speeds of Direct and Securitized Real Estate to Shocks in Fundamentals.
- Professor Tony Key. Leverage, Timing and Real Estate Performance.
- Professor Chris Webster. Predicting health and wealth performance within cities using network models.
- Mitchell Silver and Paul Farmer. Regaining Relevancy: Making the Economic Case for Planning.
- Professor Michael Neuman. Good City Process.