Call for Papers

“China's New Urbanization and Housing Market”

Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Organizers

Journal of Housing Economics

We are pleased to announce that we are organizing the 4 th “International Workshop on Regional, Urban, and Spatial Economics in China” with the theme of “China's New Urbanization and Housing Market” on 6-7 June, 2015 at Hang Lung Center for Real Estate, Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. The objective of this workshop is to increase the visibility of regional, urban, spatial and housing economics in China and to develop a stronger research network for top level international and Chinese scholars. We welcome submissions on any research issues related this theme in China including the following topics:

? 1.Urbanization and urban development

? 2.Urbanization and housing market

? 3.Housing supply, demand and prices

? 4.Land and real estate economics

? 5.Labor market and inter-regional, rural-urban migration

? 6. Agglomeration and New Economic Geography

? 7.Urban transportation

? 8.Environmental and sustainable development

? 9.Papers enriching the understanding of urban, regional, spatial and housing economics in China

For those who are interested in presenting a paper in the workshop, please submit a draft of a paper or an abstract (paper draft preferred), in English, toruse_housing_2015@163.comby1 February 2015. Notification of acceptance will be sent out by1 March 2015and a complete paper is expected by1 May 2015.

The workshop will bring together about 40 participants from China and abroad. Each presentation will be about 30 minutes in length with time for questions and discussions to provide constructive feedback for presenters. There will also be opportunities for authors, editors and scholars to interact, network and explore the possibility of developing joint research. TheJournal of Housing Economicswill run aspecial issuefor this workshop. All papers submitted to the workshop will be considered for the special issue, and a selected number of such papers will receive invitations for submission to the special issue. These submissions will go through the normal anonymous review process.

Editors with Journal of Regional Science, Papers in Regional Science, Real Estate Economics, Annals of Regional Science, Growth and Change, Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences will also generally welcome other submissions that fit those journals. Those papers would be treated as general submissions by those journals.

There is no registration fee for attending the conference, while the participants need to pay their own cost of accommodation and transportation.

If you need further information about the workshop, please do not hesitate to contact Prof. Siqi Zheng, Director of the Hang Lung Center for Real Estate at Tsinghua University, atzhengsiqi@tsinghua.edu.cn.

The Scientific Committee:

Roberta Capello, Politecnico of Milan, Italy (and Editor-in-Chief, Papers in Regional Science)

Anping Chen, Jinan University, China

Zhao Chen, Fudan University, China

Edward Coulson, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA (and Editor ofReal Estate Economics)

Jouke Van Dijk, Groningen University, Netherlands (and Editor ofSpringer Regional Science Book Series Advance of Spatial Science)

Alessandra Faggian, Ohio State University, USA (and Editor ofPapers in Regional Science)

Henk Folmer, Groningen University, Netherlands (and Managing Editor ofLetters in Spatial and Resource Sciences)

Canfei He, Peking University-Lincoln Institute Center for Urban Development and Land Policy, China

Janet Kohlhase, University of Houston, USA (and Editor ofAnnals of Regional Science)

Hongyu Liu, Tsinghua University, China

Ming Lu, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China

Mark Partridge, Ohio State University, USA (and Managing Editor ofJournal of Regional Science)

Dan Rickman, Oklahoma State University, USA (and Editor ofGrowth and Change)

Albert Saiz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA (and Editor ofJournal of Housing Economics)

Xinyue Ye, Kent State University, USA

Siqi Zheng, Tsinghua University, China

Co-Organizers ：

Journal of Regional Science

Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences