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SUMMARY:Drowning behind the Dykes? Flooding Risks and Dutch Housing Prices
  - Prof Harry Garretsen from University of Groningen
DTSTART:20100429T150000Z
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CONTACT:Ellen Ihrig
DESCRIPTION:_About the speaker:_\nHarry Garretsen (1962) got his MA and Ph
 D in economics at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. His PhD 
 dissertation deals with the (im)possibility to arrive at a microfoundation
  for Keynes' (as opposed to Keynesian) economics. His interest in geograph
 ical economics or\, as it is more widely known\, the new economic geograph
 y initially came from the similarities between Krugman's 1991 model and th
 e work on coordination failures in new Keynesian economics which has a cen
 tral place in his 1991 PhD-dissertation. He met Steven Brakman and Charles
  van Marrewijk during his days as a PhD student in Groningen and from 1991
  onwards he started to work with them on the new economic geography. Apart
  from publications in various journals the present book is his main work o
 n geographical economics. Besides geographical economics Garretsen has don
 e and continues to do research on the role of capital market imperfections
  for investment and monetary policy. Lately he has also been engaged in re
 search on financial institutions. After the completion of his PhD Garretse
 n worked as an assistant professor at the Department of Economics at the U
 niversity of Groningen (1991-1993) and as a senior policy staff member at 
 the Dutch central bank (1993-1996). At the beginning of 1996 he became a p
 rofessor of economics at the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands\, w
 here he worked until September 2002. He then moved to Utrecht University (
 2002-2008)\, and subsequently to the University of Groningen (since 2008)\
 , where he is professor of international economics and business.\n\n_About
  the seminar:_\nFollowing a trend in the social sciences at large\, resear
 ch in spatial economics and geography has started to use "natural" experim
 ents as sources of exogenous variation. Both 1st nature geography and poli
 cy induced shocks have been used to set up the (quasi-) experiments. In th
 is project\, we take the (expected) flooding risks for the case of the Net
 herlands and investigate the impact on Dutch housing prices. To do so\, we
  develop a rich data set that combines unique data on flooding risks with 
 very detailed data on housing prices. The first preliminary results sugges
 t that Dutch housing prices are indeed (negatively) affected by flooding r
 isk. 
LOCATION:Mill Lane Lecture Rooms\, Room 1
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