THE NEW DATA REVOLUTION IN REGIONAL SCIENCE – THE DILEMMA OF MORE MEASUREMENT AND BETTER MEASUREMENT
Advanced Brainstorm Carrefour (ABC)
THE NEW DATA REVOLUTION IN REGIONAL SCIENCE – THE DILEMMA OF MORE MEASUREMENT AND BETTER MEASUREMENT
An International ABC organized by The Regional Science Academy (TRSA)
In Honor of the Late Stan Czamanski
at Tel- Aviv University
&
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Israel, April 10-11, 2019
1 Advanced Brainstorm Carrefour (ABC)
Advanced Brainstorm Carrefour (ABC)
The Regional Science Academy (TRSA)
Scientific Programme of the ABC
Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Venue:
Alrov Institute for Real Estate Research, Coller School of Management, Tel Aviv
University (Recanati Building – Room 430)
8:30-9:30 Coffee
9:00-9:30 Greetings and Introductory Words in Honor of Stan Czamanski
9:30-11:00 SESSION 1:
REGIONAL SCIENCE PRACTICE: MEASUREMENT AS A BASIS
FOR POLICY
Chair: Sigal Kaplan (Hebrew University, Israel)
Demo-Economic Modeling: Czamanski’s Early Contributions to the
Current Legacy
Geoff Hewings (University of Illinois, USA)
City Sophistication
Carlos Azzoni (University Sao Paulo, Brazil)
The Data Revolution in Highway Level of Service Monitoring
Hillel Ben Gera (Ben-Gurion University, Israel)
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-13:30 SESSION 2:
CROSS-ROADS TO COMPLEXITY AND BIG DATA
Chair: Boris Portnov (Haifa University, Israel)
Dashboards as a Tool for Urban Sustainability Policy
Karima Kourtit (JADS, The Netherlands)
Are We Ready for Mobility as a Service? Smartcard Data Says Yes!
Itzik Benenson (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
2Advanced Brainstorm Carrefour (ABC)
Complexity in the Cosmos: Toward a Theory of Everything in Regional
Science
Laurie Schintler (George Mason University, USA)
Gravity Models in the Context of Spatial-Economic Interaction Principles
Waldemar Ratajczak (Mickiewicz University, Poland)
13:30-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 SESSION 3:
VOLUME AND QUALITY DILEMMAS IN SPATIAL
MEASUREMENT
Chair: Dafna Schwartz (IDC, Israel)
Implications for Regional Science of the ‘Rebuilding Macroeconomic
Theory Project’
Kieran Donaghy (Cornell University, USA)
Improved Information Shock and Price Dispersion: A Natural Experiment
in the Housing Market
Danny Ben-Shahar (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Weak and Strong Dependence in Spatial Panel Data: The Case of Regional
Investment Grants and FDI
Danny Felsenstein (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
Thursday, April 11, 2019
Venue:
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Segoe Building
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-12:30 SESSION 4:
THEORETICAL PRECEDENTS AND IMPERATIVES
Chair: Dani Shefer (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
May the Weberian Space-Economic Approach Offer an Alternative to the
Usual Econometric General Equilibrium Modelling?
Luc-Normand Tellier (The University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada)
From Competition to Cooperation in Congested Traffic Networks
Eran Ben Elia (Ben-Gurion University, Israel)
3Advanced Brainstorm Carrefour (ABC)
Innovation Explained: An Analytical Model
Rafi Bar-El (Sapir Academic College, Israel)
Endogenous Growth in a Spatial Economy
Danny Czamanski (Western Galilee College, Israel)
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:00 SESSION 5:
THE FUTURE OF REGIONAL SCIENCE AS AN OPERATIONAL
SCIENCE
Chair: Danny Czamanski (Western Galilee College, Israel)
Challenges of Smart Urban Planning in the Third Data Revolution
Peter Nijkamp (JADS, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands)
A Perspective on Unmeasurable Cities
Peter Elmlund (Ax:son Johnson Foundation, Sweden)
Regional Science Publication Trends
Alan Murray (University of California in Santa Barbara, USA)
15:00-15:30 SESSION 6:
OPEN DISCUSSION ON THE FUTURE OF REGIONAL SCIENCE
Chair: Danny Czamanski (Western Galilee College, Israel)
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-16:45 SESSION 7:
THE IMPACT OF REGIONAL SCIENCE ON PLANNING
Chair: Karel Martens (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
Regional Science and Spatial Planning: The Need to Re-Connect
Peter Batey (University of Liverpool, UK)