For information about previous International conferences, please see the conference archive section.

The American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association (AREUEA) is pleased to announce the 2016 annual international conference will be held in Alicante, Spain on July 7-8, 2016, with a welcome reception on July 6, 2016, organized by the Alicante University. The Alicante airport has multiple connections with most European cities, including direct flights from Madrid, London, Paris, and Frankfurt Airports, and main flight hub linking flights with the US and South America.

The conference will be held at University of Alicante campus, located at 10 minutes by taxi from the airport and 15 minutes from Alicante city, in the town so-called San Vicente del Raspeig. A map of location can be shown here.

Map 1. UA location along the Alicante motorway

For participants who need a visa in order to attend the conference, please follow the general EU regulations. Letter of invitations will be issued once the paper selection is completed./p>

We look forward to seeing you in Alicante.

The 2016 International Conference Committees

International Scientific Committee and Program Committee

Timothy Riddiough, University of Wisconsin, US
Gary D. Painter, University of Southern California
Marsha Courchane, Charles River Associates
Donald R. Haurin, Ohio State University
Lynn Fisher, Mortgage Banker Association
Stanley McGreal, Ulster University
Charles Ka Lui Leung, City University of Hong Kong
Christian Hilber, London School of Economics
Colin Lizieri, University of Cambridge

Local and Organizing Committee

Paloma Taltavull, University of Alicante
Dirk Brounen, University of Tilburg
Gianluca Marcato, Reading University
Martin Hoesli, Geneva University
Eamonn D'Arcy, Reading University
Giaccomo Morri, Bocconi University
Michael White, Nottingham Trent University
Anupam Nanda, University of Reading
Marc Francke, University of Amsterdam

For more information, contact our International Conference Chair:		Paloma Taltavull
		University of Alicante
		Campus de San Vicen
		Raspeig
		03080 Alicante
		paloma@ua.es

Call for Papers

The 2016 American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association (AREUEA) International Conference will take place in Alicante, Spain (EU) July 7–8, 2016, with a welcome reception on July 6, 2016. The conference will be held at the University of Alicante campus. The conference will provide a forum for academics, practitioners, and policy makers to present research findings in the areas of real estate economics, real estate finance, urban economics, and other related areas.

Well-developed abstracts or full papers (preference for full papers) must be submitted online, through the AREUEA portal, from the 1st of November 2015. The submission deadline is March 11th, 2016 and the AREUEA submission portal will close at 11:59 pm Eastern Time Zone.

PLEASE NOTE:

You may also submit your well-developed abstract or full paper (preference for full papers) by visiting the conference website, submission guidelines section, http://web.ua.es/en/areuea/abstract-and-papers/abstract-papers-submission.html.

Or you may email your submission direct to Paloma Taltavull (Alicante University) at paloma@ua.es.

All submissions must be received by March 11, 2016.

For more information, please download the PDF version of this announcement.

Submission Guidelines

Well-developed abstracts or full papers (preference for full papers) must be submitted online from the 1st of November, following the instructions posted on the AREUEA website.

Registration

Refund Policy

Conference Hotel

The venue for the conference is the Aulario II in the University of Alicante campus. A bus service will be provided from hotels and the University campus twice a day.

Booking the hotel is managed by the University official travel Agency (link below), and the following hotels are available at reduce rate. All rates include breakfast and 10% of VAT. All prices are in euros.

For registration and hotel accommodation, please, visit: http://web.ua.es/es/areuea/.

Conference Program

The conference will consist of keynote presentations, plenary sessions and parallel sessions, focused around relevant questions related to real estate and urban economics.

The sessions are all in English.

Keynote Speakers

Christine Whitehead, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, Senior Departmental Fellow, Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research (CCHPR) and Professor Emeritus of Housing Economics, Department of Economics, London School of Economics

Richard Barkham, CB RICHARD ELLIS, Global Chief Economist, CBRE

Don Haurin, OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, Professor Emeritus of Economics at the Ohio State University with appointments in the Department of Finance and School of Public Policy and Management.

Location and Transportation

The University of Alicante Campus is located at 5 kilometers of Alicante city borders and has a direct exit to the A7 Motorway which connect the Alicante Airport with all the coast. Busses will be provided from the main hotels to the University twice a day. Tram is also available with a stop at the University and stop available close to the Eurostar Lucentum Hotel door.

Alicante city has only one airport well connected with main European cities due to their large residential areas and tourism destinations. Flights coming from any continent can connect directly with Alicante through Madrid or Barcelona airports as well as from any main European air-hub. The venue is a 15-minutes taxi from the airport and 20 minutes from Alicante city. From Alicante to the campus, taxi or tram is convenient.

Conference Website and Contact Information

For more information on the 2016 AREUEA International Conference in Alicante, Spain, please visit the conference website: http://web.ua.es/en/areuea/home.html.

For questions, please contact Paloma Taltavull (Alicante University) to paloma@ua.es.