Presentation by Dimitria Freitas at the NBER Economics of Place-Based Policies Conference 2024

Dimitria Freitas, research associate and doctoral candidate at the Chair of Economics, esp. International Economic Policy and Research, presented her work on the effects of relocation of public sector jobs at the prestigious NBER Conference on Place-Based Policies on November 7-8, 2024 in Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA). In her paper, Dimitria Freitas examines how government relocation is used as an instrument of regional economic policy worldwide to revitalize economically dependent regions.

The conference was organized by the NBER's International Trade and Investment program in the US. The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) is one of the world's leading and most influential research organizations in the field of Business Administration and Economics. Many of the leading economists of the present and past are or have been associated with the NBER, including numerous Nobel Prize winners. One of the aims of the conference on "Place-Based Policies" was to compile an edited volume on the current state of research on regional economic policy in the US and Europe. The conference was organized by Cecile Gaubert (University of California, Berkeley), Gordon H. Hanson (Harvard University) and David Neumark (University of California, Irvine). Other speakers included Dani Rodrik (Harvard University) and Michael Storper (London School of Economics).

The conference paper "The Potential of Public Employment Reallocation as a Place-Based Policy" is available here: https://conference.nber.org/conf_papers/f197065.pdf. Further research papers by Dimitria Freitas on topics such as populism in Europe and economic policy can be found at https://sites.google.com/view/dimitriafreitas/