XXX заседание регулярного научного семинара департамента экономики

На XXX заседании научного семинара департамента экономики Санкт-Петербургской школы экономики и менеджмента НИУ ВШЭ с докладом «Why are newer cities richer in Russia? A spatial equilibrium approach» выступит Александр Сергеевич Скоробогатов (профессор департамента экономики). Семинар состоится 17 февраля в 16:50 по адресу: Кантемировская улица, д.3, корп. 1, лит. А, ауд. 358. Ждем всех заинтересовавшихся преподавателей, исследователей, студентов.

Семинар является совместным с Исследовательским семинаром по экономике.

Аннотация:

I consider the negative relationship between the age of cities and their average wages in Russia and a number of post-Soviet countries. To determine a mechanism behind this relationship, a spatial equilibrium model was developed. The empirical strategy is reduced to using the model to guide the interpretation of regression estimates. Based on this model I decompose the correlations of city age with wage, population size, housing price, and resource use into the partial effects of production, construction, consumption and extraction amenities. According to the results, higher real wages in newer cities reflect both their disadvantages as places for living and their production advantages. The latter are related to their production and construction amenities, higher shares of skilled workers, and more available natural resources. At the same time, these advantages and disadvantages tend to disappear over time, which gives rise to income convergence.