Seminars Archive

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

Land Economy REF Seminar Series Lent Term 2021

• 28/01/2021: Kelly Cleveland, Head of Investment at British Land. Discussing the future of offices and retail post-Covid.

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 "That's OK, this Campaign was never based on science anyway" - twenty years of success and failure of agricultural biotechnology
• Nov 2 Professor Janet Dwyer What chances for sustainable UK agri-policies after Brexit?
• Nov 9 Dr Yiannis Kitromilides The EU after ‘Brexit’: in defence of an ‘ever closer union’
• Nov 16 Dragana Cvijanovic Within-Bank Transmission of Real Estate Shocks
• Nov 23 Professor Christina Beatty The uneven impact of welfare reform on Britain's older industrial regions
• Nov 30 Patricia Peinado The Spanish Pension System and Great Recession

Lent 2017 Seminar:

• Jan 25 Professor Alex Schwartz New York City’s affordable housing plan under Mayor De Blasio and the limits of local initiative
  in making housing affordable
• Feb 1 David Cowans The housing market? What does the future hold?
• Feb 8 Professor Daniela Magalhães Prates Monetary Sovereignty, Currency Hierarchy and Economic Policy Autonomy
• Feb 15 Professor Salvatore Di Falco Necessity is the Mother of Invention: the Emergence of the Reluctant Entrepreneur in Rural Ethiopia
• Feb 22 Dr Luca Panzone A Experiment Testing for Moral Licensing in Supermarket Shopping
• Mar 1 Dr. Ayşe Kaya Fiscal consolidation, growth and unemployment in OECD Countries
• Mar 8 Dr Ahmad Seyf The vicious circle of hoarding, low investment, and the Great Recession
• Mar 15 Dr Peter Phelps Regional financialisation and convergence

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 23^rd 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:

• Seminar 16th Jan 2013 Professor Georgios Chortareas National Fiscal Policy Discipline in Common Currency Areas: Do Enforceable Rules Exist?
• Seminar 23rd Jan 2013 Costas Lapavitsas A crisis of financialisation: Fragmentation of banking and Eurozone break-up.
• Seminar 30th Jan 2013 Professor Alessandro Balducci Strategic Planning for Contemporary Urban Regions: the case of Milan “Città di Città” project.
• Seminar 6th Feb 2013 Professor Marco Flávio da Cunha Resende National innovation systems and the external constraint on growth: A theoretical approach with empirical evidence.
• Seminar 13th Feb 2013 Terrie Alafat Managing the tensions: Developing housing policy in an era of economic restraint. CANCELLED!
• Seminar 20th Feb 2013 Professor David Clapham - Housing Pathways of Young People Towards 2020.
• Seminar 27th Feb 2013 Dr Steven Devaney - Measuring real estate investment performance: A European comparison of different approaches
• Seminar 6th March 2013 Dr Madsen Pirie - Steering Public Policy Around the Interest Groups.
• Seminar 13th March 2013 Prof David Yates - Why is it so hard to interpret a contract?

Michaelmas 2012 Seminars:

• Seminar 10th October 2012 Dr Catherine MacKenzie. Law, War and Forests: Prospects for an International Forest Treaty.
• Seminar 17th October 2012 Dr Franz Fuerst. Energy efficiency and house prices: is there a link?
• Seminar 24th October 2012 Alex Plant. Delivering Growth in Difficult Times.
• Seminar 31st October 2012 Elias Oikarinen, Martin Hoesli and Camilo Serrano. Response Speeds of Direct and Securitized Real Estate to Shocks in Fundamentals.
• Seminar 7th November 2012 Professor Tony Key. Leverage, Timing and Real Estate Performance.
• Seminar 14th November 2012 Professor Chris Webster. Predicting health and wealth performance within cities using network models.
• Seminar 21st November 2012 Mitchell Silver and Paul Farmer. Regaining Relevancy: Making the Economic Case for Planning.
• Seminar 28th November 2012 Professor Michael Neuman. Good City Process.