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2nd Meeting on Transport Economics and Infrastructure

Keynote speaker: Marc Ivaldi (Toulouse School of Economics)

Date: January 21, 2016

Sala de Graus - Faculty of Economics and Business. University of Barcelona. Av. Diagonal, 690. Barcelona

Presentation

The aim of this meeting is to discuss recent research in the area of transport and infrastructure economics. The meeting will focus on issues related to pricing, investment and competition, but research papers in other areas of transport economics and infrastructure analysis, both from empirical and theoretical perspectives, are also welcome. Between 10 and 12 papers will be accepted for presentation and discussion at the meeting, which will take place during a single day at the Faculty of Economics of University of Barcelona.

Organising Institutions

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Keynote Speaker

Marc Ivaldi (Toulouse School of Economics)
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Scientific Committee

Germà Bel (Universitat de Barcelona)

Pedro Cantos (Universitat de València)

Xavier Fageda (Universitat de Barcelona)

Anna Matas (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona & IEB)

Jos van Ommeren (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

Stef Proost (KU Leuven)

Ginés de Rus (Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria & FEDEA)

Mateu Turró (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)

Organizing Committee

Daniel Albalate (Universitat de Barcelona)

Javier Asensio (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona & IEB)

Daniel Montolio (Universitat de Barcelona & IEB)

Topics of interest

Infrastructure investment and finance

Public transport: performance, efficiency and regulation

Pricing issues in urban transport

Governance, ownership and competition issues in transport

Air transport and airport management

Energy and environmental issues in transport

Railway economics: infrastructure access and competition

Deadlines

Deadline for submission of papers: October 12, 2015

Notification of accepted papers: November 9, 2015

Submission

Papers should be sent to ieb.workshop@ub.edu by October 12, 2015. Only papers presented in PDF format and no longer than 30 pages will be considered. Papers will be evaluated by the scientific committee. The acceptance decision will be notified to authors by November 9, 2015. Free accommodation for one night (before or after the meeting) will be provided to presenters of accepted papers. Presenters may be asked to act as discussants of another paper.

Registration

Presenters / discussants / Ph.D. students: free

Early registration (70 €): October 1 to December 15, 2015

Late registration (150 €): December 16, 2015 to January 8, 2016