These are 10 of my favourite #UrbanEconomics & #SpatialEconomics articles published in academic journals in 2025, continuing with a tradition started in 2018 (order is alphabetical by first author, no ranking implied):

Honoured and delighted to receive the 2025 Maurice Allais Prize in Economics, together with Gilles Duranton, for our paper Urban Growth and its Aggregate Implications (Econometrica, @ecmaeditors.bsky.social, 2023). 📷: Peter Gunnar

Llego a Alicante y veo este anuncio por la calle de los premios #JaimeI Premios Rei Jaume I y me ha parecido muy ingenioso, irónico, innovador y hecho con talento. Una estupenda idea. Enhorabuena al diseñador o diseñadora o publicista que lo ha ideado, por esta propuesta diferente.

These are 10 of my favourite #UrbanEconomics articles published in academic journals in 2024 (continues a tradition started in 2018, order is alphabetical by first author, no ranking implied):

Governments should provide data on quality of public service provision, but often don’t. Thanks to Spain’s Freedom of Information Act & journalists like Montse Hidalgo, @danielegrasso.bsky.social & @iguacel.bsky.social we get facts like map of delays getting appointment with family doctor t.ly/Jnh_L

Mapa de la atención primaria en España: más de la mitad de los centros de salud citan
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Comunidades y Gobierno se pusieron como objetivo en 2019 garantizar atención no urgente en menos de dos días. Los datos de más de 2.500 centros de 16 comunidades revelan un panorama dispar

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The final day of the 49th Symposium of the Spanish Economic Association kicked off on a high note with a social running event in beautiful Palma de Mallorca. A big thank you to everyone who joined!

Applications to the Masters & PhD at @cemfi.es are now open. Today, Friday 29 Nov at 3pm CET we are holding an online information meeting for prospective students. Sign up here: bit.ly/3CGlXAb

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Now accepting applications to our master and Ph.D. programs 📢. Prospective students are welcome to join an information meeting about our programs and institution on-line next Friday Nov 29 3pm CET. More info and registration here 👉 bit.ly/3CGlXAb

Congratulations to @GioPietrabissa on his PhD defense before joining @LSEGeography in the fall. I feel very lucky to have been his advisor with Paula Bustos. Thanks to @JDelaRocaUSC, David Nagy & @m_saintmary for examining & to @MilenaAlmagro for her role in Giorgio's Committee https://t.co/bAjp...

I am looking for a predoctoral fellow based at CEMFI to assist in the ERC-funded research project "City buzz: Quantity, quality, and variety implications of the urban environment" for one year starting September 2024 Application deadline 31 July...

Fantastic papers by @MilanQuentel, @PonsardJade & @anaisfabre_econ awarded the winner and runner-up prizes for the UEA Best Student paper. Very different but all with original interesting question & careful implementation. I very much enjoyed being part of the prize committee https://t.co/YhvTumxtrK

Another year of @CEMFInews runners enjoying a beautiful Sunday morning in Madrid running through the city in @thevintagerun 10k! https://x.com/kaytansevin/status/1797228820031766732 https://x.com/ProfDiegoPuga/status/1797324750437359929/photo/1

Congratulations Dani (@darribas) on being awarded the Royal Geographic Society's (@RGS_IBG) Taylor & Francis Award for "leading the way in integrating data science into geography"! https://x.com/darribas/status/1787982207685947705

Thrilled & grateful to get an ERC Advanced Grant for "City Buzz: Quantity, quality, and variety implications of the urban environment." My research career would not be possible without the 3 Adv. Grants from @ERCResearch supporting my research at @CEMFINews since 2012. Thank you https://t.co/wD2...

Neat in @AEAJournals Policy by Borraz, @NicolsGonzlezP4, @CarozziFelipe & Zipitría. Uses place-based tax break to show housing stock growth raises grocery variety, lowers prices, little store change. Rationalised w/ @Thierry__Mayer, Melitz, Ottaviano model...

The @FundacioIEB Workshop on Urban Economics in Barcelona is always one of the most interesting and fun conferences on spatial topics. Applications open until 4 March, workshop 10-12 June 2024 https://t.co/5I4MWLl21A https://t.co/djUQwE5a1U

Having @monicambravo as a colleague is a great perk of @CEMFINews. With her appointment to lead Spain's social inclusion policies, Mónica goes from informing policy with RCTs to making informed decisions herself, a big step towards evidence-based policies & effective inclusion https://t.co/EZ603...

Carmen Valero shattered barriers as Spain's first female Olympic athlete & 2-time World XC Champion in an era when women were largely excluded from sports & other male-dominated roles. Spain's dramatic evolution since then is a tribute to her pioneering spirit & lasting legacy https://t.co/XjHyk...

Un privilegio haber estado en el Consejo Asesor de Asuntos Económicos. Gracias @NadiaCalvino y su equipo por la confianza y el liderazgo económico en una época compleja, lo mejor para la nueva etapa en @EIB y enhorabuena al nuevo ministro de Economía @carlos_cuerpo, gran elección https://t.co/3K...

You can also look back at my lists of 10 #UrbanEconomics articles published in 2022 (https://t.co/QBxHrwwd0D), 2021 (https://t.co/9r57v8PKhf), 2020 (https://t.co/jPqso22OWj), 2019 (https://t.co/WVSnUJbaGQ) & 2018 (https://t.co/3tAaXJYnFJ)

i) Leonardi & Moretti, @AEAjournals AER Insights. Estimates agglomeration externalities from abolition of Milan regulation forcing minimum distance across restaurants; leads to cross-neighbourhood divergence, greater concentration triggers differentiation https://t.co/2iFSrWfQ1N

g) Hsieh & @HansbergRossi, @JPolEcon Macro. New tech allowing service firms to scale up over many locations has increased national market concentration but decreased concentration & promoted variety at local level, particularly small & mid-sized US cities https://t.co/7AfPt0E266

e) Duranton & Puga, @ecmaEditors. Growth model in urban system where endogenous planning regulations balance agglomeration against congestion to suit incumbents; estimates urban benefits & costs elasticities, studies novel predictions & counterfactuals https://t.co/7qmNFhP68f

d) @AdrienBilal, @QJEHarvard. With French & US data shows spatial unemployment gaps are driven mostly by different job-losing rates, shaped by local employers not workers; offers model where employers’ location choices & frictions create such differences https://t.co/wLi96M2aIO

c) Barwick, Liu, @EleonoraPatacc2 & Wu, @AEAjournals AER. Separates spatially correlated job choices from referrals using phone calls; switches to contact’s workplace more likely than similar same-neighbourhood job; referrer calls spike around job switch https://t.co/UjvlLh6nzd

a) @prottoyakbar, Couture, Duranton & Storeygard, @AEAjournals AER. City-level speed indices for India & US from Google Maps queries, decomposed into uncongested speed & congestion; cross-city speed variation due more to uncongested speed than congestion https://t.co/lmnUxiMojX

These are 10 of my favourite #UrbanEconomics articles published in academic journals in 2023, continuing with a tradition from the last few years (order is alphabetical by first author, no ranking implied):

Group run in Salamanca for a great start of the day at the 48th Simposium of the Spanish Economic Association. Thanks to everyone who joined, including @AEEmedia President @NataliaFabra, Programme Chair @monicambravo & Plenary Speaker Noam Yuchtman

This #EconJobMarket season, @CEMFINews is hiring up to 2 tenure-track Assistant Professors. After a careful review of the 665 applications received, taking into account not just the candidates’ qualities but also the fit with our needs, we have sent out 38 interview invitations

Interesting plot of left and right votes in Spain’s general election by census track income: left dominates up to 7 percentile, tied until 40, left up to 89 (Sumar’s strong urban vote), then right at the top. @raulsanchezglez & @VictriaVic in @elDiarioes...

Paper with Duranton accepted in @ecmaEditors has growth model in urban system where endogenous planning regulations balance agglomeration & congestion to suit incumbents, estimates urban benefit & cost elasticities, studies predictions & counterfactuals 🧵...