AREUEA International Conference 2025
Barcelona · July 15-18, 2025
The American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association (AREUEA) is pleased to announce that the 2025 Annual International Conference will be held in Barcelona, Spain, on July 15–18, 2025. The conference will be hosted by the Department of Finance and Real Estate at IESE Business School.
As ever, it will provide a forum for academics, practitioners and policymakers in the areas of real estate finance, development and investment, housing, urban planning, urban economics and public policy to exchange ideas on important issues.
Submissions on all topics relating to real estate and urban economics are encouraged.
Tuesday, July, 15 (17:00 p.m – 22:00 p.m)
17:00 – 19:00: Workshop for PhD Students
19:00 – 22:00: Opening and Welcome Reception
- Franz Heukamp, Dean IESE Business School
Wednesday, July 16 (08:30 – 16:00)
08:00 – 08:30: Registration
08:30 – 10:00: Parallel Sessions
- Climate Risk 1
- AI and Valuation in Real Estate
- Advances in Spatial Modeling for Real Estate 2
- Regulation and Policy 1
10:00 – 10:30: Coffee Break (Q-300)
10:30 – 12:00: Parallel Sessions
- Boom-Bust Dynamics in Housing Markets
- Housing Finance 1
- Mortgage
- Urban Economics 1
12:00 – 12:10: Natural Break
12:10 – 13.30: Parallel Sessions
- Behavioral Insights
- Market Behavior & Bias
- Energy Efficiency in Real Estate
- Discrimination in Housing Markets
13:30 – 14:30 Lunch, North Campus Dining Room
14:30 – 15:30: Panel with industry experts and academics
- Cristian Oller (SVP y Head of Southern Europe @ Prologis)
- Ismael Clemente (President and CEO @ Merlin Properties)
- Joaquin Castellví (Co-Founder and Head of Transactions @ Stoneweg)
15:30– 17:00: Parallel Sessions
- Gender Gaps in Finance and Housing
- Urban Housing Dynamics
- Climate Risk 2
- Urban Mobility
17:00 End of first day conference
17:15: Buses departing from the school’s main entrance for the Social Activity – Guided tour of the Gothic Quarter and the old town of Barcelona
19:30– 22:00 WREN Dinner (20pax)
Thursday, July 17 (8:30 a.m. – 10:30 p.m.)
08:30 – 10:00: Parallel Sessions
- Housing Markets Under Regulatory Pressure
- Urban Economics 2
- Housing and Well-Being
- Climate Risk 3
10:00 – 10:30: Coffee Break
10:30 – 12:00: Parallel Sessions
- Regulation and Policy 2
- Monetary Policy and Housing
- Health Shocks and Real Estate Markets
- Digital Innovation and Real Estate Markets
12:00 – 12:10: Natural Break
12:10 – 13.30: Parallel Sessions
- Regulation and Policy 2
- Monetary Policy and Housing
- Health Shocks and Real Estate Markets
- Digital Innovation and Real Estate Markets
13:30 – 14:30: Lunch, North Campus Dining Room
14:30 – 15:30: Panel with industry experts and academics TBC
15:30: End of first day conference
16:00– 19:30: Social Activity– Buses departing from the school’s main entrance. Visit to the Torres vineyards and wine tasting
19:30 – 22:00: Conference Dinner Torres Vineyards
Friday, July 18 (8:30 a.m. – 10:30 p.m.)
08:30 – 10:00: Parallel Sessions
- Climate Risk 4
- Discrimination in Housing Markets 2
- Credit & Leverage
- Housing Supply and Market Structure
10:00 – 10:30: Coffee Break
10:30 – 12:00: Parallel Sessions
- Real Estate in Times of Crisis
- Urban Pressure
- Supply & Vacancies
- Search Frictions in Real Estate
12:00 – 12:10: Natural Break
12:10 – 13.30: Parallel Session
- Commercial Real Estate Under Stress
- Tax Policy and Real Estate Outcomes
- Urban Pressure 2
- Climate Risk 5
13:30 – 14:30: Lunch, North Campus Dining Room
19:30 – 22:00: Informal Dinner
TBC
March 3, 2025: Deadline for submission of extended abstracts. The suggested paper length is about 7000 words, with an abstract of about 250 words, including objectives, methodology, possible findings and relevant references.
April 15, 2025: Notification of accepted submissions
June 1, 2025: Closure of early-bird registration
July 1, 2025: Deadline for submission of full papers
- The official language of the Conference is English.
- Send proposals using the paper submission platform.
Further Inquiries
Logistical questions about this conference can be addressed to Esther Ribes (eribes@iese.edu), and academic questions to Professor Carles Vergara (cvergara@iese.edu).
Conference email: areuea25@iese.edu
| Early bird fee | Regular fee | |
| Before June 1st | After June 1st | |
| Standard | €540 | €650 |
| AREUEA Members | €440 | €550 |
| PhD students | €350 | €450 |
Location
The American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association (AREUEA) will take place on the Barcelona North Campus of IESE Business School.
C/ Arnús i Gari 3-7
08034 Barcelona
+34 93 253 42 00
Accomodation
IESE is a dynamic community of scholars and practitioners who will welcome you to Barcelona, a traditional and welcoming Mediterranean city. It is a city with a great number of tourist attractions and a friendly atmosphere that will offer conference participants and their families plenty of opportunities to enjoy their stay here, over and above the academic program we are preparing for you. Accommodations options near IESE. To make reservations at any of the hotels, please contact Anna Sánchez at anna@vintage.cat, who will handle them, because you can enjoy special discounts as a participant of the conference.
·Sansi Pedralbes → 5-minute walk from IESE
Av. Pearson 1-3, 08034 Barcelona
·Torre Girona Residence Halls → 10-minute walk from IESE
Passeig dels Til·lers, 19 , 08034 Barcelona
·AC Victoria Suites → 15-minute walk from IESE
C/ Beltrán i Ròzpide, 7-9 (before Av. Pedralbes, 16), 08034 Barcelona
· Arenas Atiram → 11-minute car from IESE
C/ Capitán Arenas, 20, 08035 Barcelona
TBC
- Joao Cocco, Professor, London Business School
- Jorge de la Roca, Professor, University of Southern California
- Piet Eichholtz, Professor, Maastricht University
- Jose Fillat, Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
- Pedro Gete, Professor, IE Business School
- Ingrid Gould Ellen, Professor, New York University
- Jaime Luque, Professor, ESCP Business School
- Joan Monras, Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
- Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, Professor, Columbia University
- Albert Saiz, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal, Professor, University of Barcelona
- Jiro Yoshida, Professor, Pennsylvania State University
- Danny Ben-Shahar, Associate Professor, Tel Aviv University
- Simon Buechler, Assistant Professor, University of Miami
- Edward Coulson, Professor, University of California Irvine
- Dragana Cvijanovic, Professor, Cornell University
- Avis Devine, Professor, York University
- Franz Fuerst, Professor, University of Cambridge
- Yuming Fu, Professor, National University of Singapore
- Miquel Angel Garcia Lopez, Professor, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
- Pedro Gete, Professor, IE Business School
- Carolin Hoeltken, Assistant Professor, University of Cambridge
- Nils Kok, Professor, Maastricht University
- Anil Kumar, Professor, Aarhus University
- Thies Lindenthal, Professor, University of Cambridge
- Jaime Luque, Professor, ESCP Business School
- Gianluca Marcato, Professor, University of Reading
- Joan Monras, Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
- Gary Painter, Professor, University of Cincinnati
- Juan Palacios, Assistant Professor, Maastricht University
- Milena Petrova, Professor, Syracuse University
- Claudio Rizzi, Assitant Professor, IESE Business School
- Tsur Somerville, Professor, University of British Columbia
- Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal, Professor, University of Barcelona
- Sean Wilkoff, Assistant Professor, University of Nevada Reno
- Erkan Yonder, Professor, Concordia University
- Jiro Yoshida, Professor, Pennsylvania State University
Alejandra Arrocha
Financial Management Faculty Assistant, IESE Bussiness School
David Echeverry
Finance Assistant Professor, University of Navarra
Alicia Plana
Executive Director, PPP for Cities, IESE Business School
Esther Ribes
Events Manager, Research Events Unit, IESE Bussiness School
