International Conference on the Frontiers in Spatial Economics
Date: June30 - July 2, 2000
Place: Kyoto University, Institute of Economic Research


June 30, 2000 
■Opening speech 
Masahisa Fujita (Kyoto University) 
■Labor Pooling, Labor Poaching, and Spatial Clustering 
Pierre-Philippe Combes (CERAS-ENPC) and Gilles Duranton (LSE) 
■Discussion 
 
■Local labor markets, skill accumulation and regional disparities 
Philippe Monfort and Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano (University of Bologna) 
■Discussion 
 
■Anchor stores 
Hideo Konishi and Micheal Standfort (Boston College) 
■Discussion 
Hisaki Yamaga (Osaka University) 
■Session 2. 
 
■Nursery city: urban diversity, process innovation and the life cycle of products 
Diego Puga (Toronto University) and Gilles Duranton (LSE) 
■Discussion 
Hironori Kondo (Shinsyu University) 

July 1, 2000 
■The spatial evolution of the US urban system 
Henry Overman (LSE) 
■Discussion 
Atsushi Yoshida (Osaka Prefectural University) 
■Spatial evolution of population and industry 
Duncan Black (UC-Irvine) 
■Discussion 
Takatoshi Tabuchi (University of Tokyo) 
■Production agglomeration, rural-urban migration, and regional income disparity in developing countries: a spatial general equili 
Dapeng Hu (Citicorp) 
■Discussion 
Ho-Yeon Kim (Sungkyunkwan University) 
■Spatial competition between governments in the provision of excludable goods with nonrivalry 
Takaaki Takahashi (Sophia University) 
■Discussion 
Hideo Konishi (Boston College) 
■Regional heterogeneity and laws of international trade 
Koji Nishikimi (Institute of Developing Economies) 
■Discussion 
Gianmarco Ottaviano (University of Bologna) 

July 2, 2000 
■Skills, Agglomeration, and Segmentation 
Tomoya Mori (Kyoto University) and Alessandro Turrini (University of Bergamo) 
■Discussion 
Pierre-Philippe Combes (CERAS-ENPC) 
■Global economic divergence, trade and industrialization: the geography of growth takeoffs 
Richard Baldwin, Philippe Martin (CERAS-ENPC) and Gianmarco Ottaviano (University of Bologna) 
■Discussion 
Yasusada Murata (University of Tokyo) 
■Empirical analysis of transport network and system of cities: a case study of Tohoku, Japan 
Se-il Mun (Kyoto University) 
■Discusssion 
Gilles Duranton (LSE) 
■Mind the Gaps: The Evolution of Regional Inequalities in the U.K. 1982-1997 
Gilles Duranton and Vassilis Monastiriodis (LSE) 
■Discussion 
Tatsuaki Kuroda (Nagoya University)