Cities, Labor Markets, and the Global Economy Conference.

An NBER conference on Cities, Labor Markets, and the Global Economy took place in Cambridge on October 25-26. Research Associates Edward L. Glaeser of Harvard University and Stephen J. Redding of Princeton University organized the meeting, which was sponsored by the Smith Richardson Foundation. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Eran Hoffmann, Hebrew University, and Monika Piazzesi and Martin Schneider, Stanford University and NBER, "Jobs at Risk, Regional Growth, and Labor Market Flows"

* Jan Eeckhout, University College London; Christoph Hedtrich, Universitat Pompeu Fabra; and Roberto Pinheiro, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, "Technology, Spatial Sorting, and Job Polarization"

* Sharat Ganapati, Georgetown University; Woan Foong Wong, University of Oregon; and Oren Ziv, Michigan State University, "Entrepot"

* Cecile Gaubert, Patrick M. Kline, and Danny Yagan, University of California, Berkeley and NBER, "Place-Based Redistribution"

* Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Princeton University and NBER; and Pierre-Daniel Sarte and Felipe Schwartzman, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, "Cognitive Hubs and Spatial Redistribution" (NBER Working Paper 26267)

* Fabian Eckert, Princeton University, "Growing Apart: Tradable Services and the Fragmentation of the US Economy"

* Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University and NBER; Kyle...