Introduction to the special issue on 'Public policies, cities and regions'

Abstract

This special issue follows the "Public Policies, Cities and Regions" workshop organized in December 2017 in Lyon by the urban economics team from GATE (Sylvie Charlot, Pierre-Philippe Combes, Sylvie D.murger, Nelly Exbrayat, Florence Goffette Nagot and Sonia Paty). The event gathered both young and experienced scholars from Europe and North-America to discuss recent advances on the evaluation of public policies in an urban economics context. Nate Baum-Snow and Kurt Schmidheiny were the keynote speakers of this two-day stimulating and friendly event (...)