Amine Ouazad
@amineouazad.bsky.social
Prof HEC Montreal 🇨🇦. Trained in 🇫🇷 🇬🇧. Urban and Real Estate economist / Professorship de recherche en économie urbaine et immobilière. Cited NYT, WSJ, FT, Bloomberg. #Econsky
GitHub 👉 https://github.com/aouazad/
Website 👉 https://www.ouazad.com
GitHub 👉 https://github.com/aouazad/
Website 👉 https://www.ouazad.com
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Amine Ouazad
@amineouazad.bsky.social
· Dec 31
Multiple Equilibria in Quantitative Spatial Models.
Slides of my talk at the Econometric Society in San Francisco on Friday. Leads to a numerical algorithm that provides counterfactual maps of cities. PDF version: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/sacbe...
Slides of my talk at the Econometric Society in San Francisco on Friday. Leads to a numerical algorithm that provides counterfactual maps of cities. PDF version: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/sacbe...
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Quebec has significantly better housing outcomes than the rest of Canada. Language barriers might have helped Quebec not to “learn” from anglophone Canada 👍, but also prevent the rest of Canada from learning from Quebec 👎.
Nice to see an English language take on housing from the Quebec perspective!
Nice to see an English language take on housing from the Quebec perspective!
I wish there was a way to convey how much of a big deal this is to me, I wish you could feel it.
Our work on housing policy, condensed in a single report, has finally been translated to English. You can download it here:
carrefour.vivreenville.org/publication/...
(Click "Télécharger le PDF")
Our work on housing policy, condensed in a single report, has finally been translated to English. You can download it here:
carrefour.vivreenville.org/publication/...
(Click "Télécharger le PDF")
Opening Doors | Publications | Carrefour Vivre en Ville
Consultez notre publication « Opening Doors ». Carrefour Vivre en Ville
carrefour.vivreenville.org
October 30, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Quebec has significantly better housing outcomes than the rest of Canada. Language barriers might have helped Quebec not to “learn” from anglophone Canada 👍, but also prevent the rest of Canada from learning from Quebec 👎.
Nice to see an English language take on housing from the Quebec perspective!
Nice to see an English language take on housing from the Quebec perspective!
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Minneapolis built more housing than any other major Midwest city & it’s not a mystery why.
They allowed modest density housing types city-wide, cut regressive parking mandates, and made it easier to build apartments near transit.
The results: more homes + slowed rent growth.
They allowed modest density housing types city-wide, cut regressive parking mandates, and made it easier to build apartments near transit.
The results: more homes + slowed rent growth.
October 27, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Minneapolis built more housing than any other major Midwest city & it’s not a mystery why.
They allowed modest density housing types city-wide, cut regressive parking mandates, and made it easier to build apartments near transit.
The results: more homes + slowed rent growth.
They allowed modest density housing types city-wide, cut regressive parking mandates, and made it easier to build apartments near transit.
The results: more homes + slowed rent growth.
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Wharton’s real estate department is hiring pre-docs!
Please send your amazing undergrads our way and reach out with any questions! #Econsky
Please send your amazing undergrads our way and reach out with any questions! #Econsky
🚨 undergrads and masters students interested in careers in applied econ research:
My department is recruiting 4-5 full-time RAs to start summer 2026. See the announcement here for more details: jessiehandbury.com/misc/RAflyer...
A few reasons you should apply...
My department is recruiting 4-5 full-time RAs to start summer 2026. See the announcement here for more details: jessiehandbury.com/misc/RAflyer...
A few reasons you should apply...
jessiehandbury.com
October 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Wharton’s real estate department is hiring pre-docs!
Please send your amazing undergrads our way and reach out with any questions! #Econsky
Please send your amazing undergrads our way and reach out with any questions! #Econsky
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The CEPR European Conference on Household Finance 2025 began in Stockholm this afternoon with welcome addresses by Paolo Sodini and @haliassos.bsky.social. Three keynote presentations will follow by Michael Greenstone, Caroline Flammer, and @haliassos.bsky.social.
#EconSky
#EconSky
September 18, 2025 at 1:32 PM
The CEPR European Conference on Household Finance 2025 began in Stockholm this afternoon with welcome addresses by Paolo Sodini and @haliassos.bsky.social. Three keynote presentations will follow by Michael Greenstone, Caroline Flammer, and @haliassos.bsky.social.
#EconSky
#EconSky
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"The Local Economic Impact of Natural Disasters" by Brigitte Roth Tran ( @brothtran.bsky.social ) and Daniel J. Wilson was just accepted at #JAERE.
Read more here: buff.ly/17d9yEe
Read more here: buff.ly/17d9yEe
September 5, 2025 at 12:01 PM
"The Local Economic Impact of Natural Disasters" by Brigitte Roth Tran ( @brothtran.bsky.social ) and Daniel J. Wilson was just accepted at #JAERE.
Read more here: buff.ly/17d9yEe
Read more here: buff.ly/17d9yEe
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New survey of Masahisa Fujita’s foundational contributions to spatial economics by Duranton and Mori: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
How Masa Fujita shaped the present of spatial economics and how he will inspire its future - The Japanese Economic Review
We selectively review Masa Fujita’s work in spatial economics. We first show how he defined the research agenda during several decades and was at the origin of the key transitions of the field during ...
link.springer.com
July 7, 2025 at 6:29 PM
New survey of Masahisa Fujita’s foundational contributions to spatial economics by Duranton and Mori: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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#econsky #urbanecon @arpitrage.bsky.social @vaidehitandel.bsky.social @amineouazad.bsky.social @jeffrlin.bsky.social @sandipz.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Do mandatory disclosures squeeze the lemons? The case of housing markets in India
What is the impact of mandatory disclosures of quality on market outcomes? Does the impact differ across income groups due to a difference in abilitie…
www.sciencedirect.com
June 19, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Data on firm relocations reveal that nearly all wage differences between cities stem from the spatial sorting of workers and firms; Location-specific factors explain only 2–5 percent, from Pauline Carry, Benny Kleinman, and Elio Nimier-David https://www.nber.org/papers/w33779
May 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Data on firm relocations reveal that nearly all wage differences between cities stem from the spatial sorting of workers and firms; Location-specific factors explain only 2–5 percent, from Pauline Carry, Benny Kleinman, and Elio Nimier-David https://www.nber.org/papers/w33779
A new version of the paper is now online, with tools for singularities, dynamics, and solving the classic Schelling urban model. If you leave your email here I'll send you a link to the full code integrated with the manuscript.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
April 15, 2025 at 2:09 PM
A new version of the paper is now online, with tools for singularities, dynamics, and solving the classic Schelling urban model. If you leave your email here I'll send you a link to the full code integrated with the manuscript.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Wed., 3/5 at 11am CT, join the
Chicago Fed for “The Availability & Impact of Public & Private Funding Following a Natural Disaster.”
Hear from:
Daniel Hartley
@benkeys.bsky.social
Ralf Meisenzahl
@amineouazad.bsky.social, @svaneksmith.bsky.social
Register here: web.cvent.com/event/4df500...
Chicago Fed for “The Availability & Impact of Public & Private Funding Following a Natural Disaster.”
Hear from:
Daniel Hartley
@benkeys.bsky.social
Ralf Meisenzahl
@amineouazad.bsky.social, @svaneksmith.bsky.social
Register here: web.cvent.com/event/4df500...
February 27, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Wed., 3/5 at 11am CT, join the
Chicago Fed for “The Availability & Impact of Public & Private Funding Following a Natural Disaster.”
Hear from:
Daniel Hartley
@benkeys.bsky.social
Ralf Meisenzahl
@amineouazad.bsky.social, @svaneksmith.bsky.social
Register here: web.cvent.com/event/4df500...
Chicago Fed for “The Availability & Impact of Public & Private Funding Following a Natural Disaster.”
Hear from:
Daniel Hartley
@benkeys.bsky.social
Ralf Meisenzahl
@amineouazad.bsky.social, @svaneksmith.bsky.social
Register here: web.cvent.com/event/4df500...
Looking forward to this panel with Kristen, Ben, Daniel, Ralf, Stacey.
On 3/5 at 11am CT, join the @chicagofed.bsky.social Economic Mobility Project for The Availability & Impact of Public & Private Funding Following a Natural Disaster.
Register here: web.cvent.com/event/4df500...
Register here: web.cvent.com/event/4df500...
February 21, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Looking forward to this panel with Kristen, Ben, Daniel, Ralf, Stacey.
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Shows little impact on overall embodied carbon emissions of 20 storey building to equivalent floorspace built in 10 or 5 storey form, after taking into account embodied carbon of required additional infrastructure.
Bonus: Modelled using Canadian building code.
Bonus: Modelled using Canadian building code.
February 17, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Shows little impact on overall embodied carbon emissions of 20 storey building to equivalent floorspace built in 10 or 5 storey form, after taking into account embodied carbon of required additional infrastructure.
Bonus: Modelled using Canadian building code.
Bonus: Modelled using Canadian building code.
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PSA: While the StatCan web interface is down today, the WDS API is still fully functional. The {cansim} R package makes it super-easy to access data from the API, complete with metadata. And it facilitates programmatic data discovery to find the tables and data you need.
Retrieve and work with public Statistics Canada data tables in R
Searches for, accesses, and retrieves new-format and old-format Statistics Canada data tables, as well as individual vectors, as tidy data frames. This package deals with encoding issues, allows for b...
mountainmath.github.io
February 15, 2025 at 9:57 PM
PSA: While the StatCan web interface is down today, the WDS API is still fully functional. The {cansim} R package makes it super-easy to access data from the API, complete with metadata. And it facilitates programmatic data discovery to find the tables and data you need.
Left X for good and happy to be here on blue sky permanently. It wasn't easy, 3300+ followers to leave behind.
February 13, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Left X for good and happy to be here on blue sky permanently. It wasn't easy, 3300+ followers to leave behind.
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We collectively haven’t been taking the plans laid out by Project 2025 seriously enough. They want to destroy NOAA so people won’t know that climate change is happening. It sounds stupid and alarmist if you haven’t been paying attention.
Project 2025 plan calls for demolition of NOAA and National Weather Service
The call to dismantle the United States' vital weather department has raised the hackles of experts who say NOAA provides not only important free data but also life-saving information.
www.latimes.com
February 8, 2025 at 10:17 AM
We collectively haven’t been taking the plans laid out by Project 2025 seriously enough. They want to destroy NOAA so people won’t know that climate change is happening. It sounds stupid and alarmist if you haven’t been paying attention.
News:
Bloomberg: "Fed Closes Climate Program, Ending Stress-Test Burden for Banks"
NOAA: "Employees Told to Pause Work With ‘Foreign Nationals’". NOAA provides hurricane data.
CFPB: "Bessent Freezes CFPB Work" CFPB is the provider of the most important mortgage finance data set.
Bloomberg: "Fed Closes Climate Program, Ending Stress-Test Burden for Banks"
NOAA: "Employees Told to Pause Work With ‘Foreign Nationals’". NOAA provides hurricane data.
CFPB: "Bessent Freezes CFPB Work" CFPB is the provider of the most important mortgage finance data set.
February 6, 2025 at 9:33 PM
News:
Bloomberg: "Fed Closes Climate Program, Ending Stress-Test Burden for Banks"
NOAA: "Employees Told to Pause Work With ‘Foreign Nationals’". NOAA provides hurricane data.
CFPB: "Bessent Freezes CFPB Work" CFPB is the provider of the most important mortgage finance data set.
Bloomberg: "Fed Closes Climate Program, Ending Stress-Test Burden for Banks"
NOAA: "Employees Told to Pause Work With ‘Foreign Nationals’". NOAA provides hurricane data.
CFPB: "Bessent Freezes CFPB Work" CFPB is the provider of the most important mortgage finance data set.
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The National Association of Home Builders explains what happens if we make inputs for home construction, such as Canadian lumber, more expensive.
February 1, 2025 at 9:55 PM
The National Association of Home Builders explains what happens if we make inputs for home construction, such as Canadian lumber, more expensive.
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An account of our 7-year empirical journey to document the climate securitization hypothesis — and the dollars spent by a $4t firm to silence the evidence. Hopefully the 130,000+ lines of code written to visualize the impact of hurricanes have been useful.
open.substack.com/pub/policyan...
open.substack.com/pub/policyan...
January 20, 2025 at 10:57 PM
An account of our 7-year empirical journey to document the climate securitization hypothesis — and the dollars spent by a $4t firm to silence the evidence. Hopefully the 130,000+ lines of code written to visualize the impact of hurricanes have been useful.
open.substack.com/pub/policyan...
open.substack.com/pub/policyan...
An account of our 7-year empirical journey to document the climate securitization hypothesis — and the dollars spent by a $4t firm to silence the evidence. Hopefully the 130,000+ lines of code written to visualize the impact of hurricanes have been useful.
open.substack.com/pub/policyan...
open.substack.com/pub/policyan...
January 20, 2025 at 10:57 PM
An account of our 7-year empirical journey to document the climate securitization hypothesis — and the dollars spent by a $4t firm to silence the evidence. Hopefully the 130,000+ lines of code written to visualize the impact of hurricanes have been useful.
open.substack.com/pub/policyan...
open.substack.com/pub/policyan...
Valuing real estate is challenging in this context: a cash flow approach will tell you that values are up, but a comparable sales approach will suggest a large discount.
January 14, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Valuing real estate is challenging in this context: a cash flow approach will tell you that values are up, but a comparable sales approach will suggest a large discount.
Speaking on the LA wildfires in the Scotsman Guide, with estimates on the impact on LTVs and rates from our paper with Erkan Yönder and @mattkahn1966.bsky.social
www.scotsmanguide.com/news/la-wild...
www.scotsmanguide.com/news/la-wild...
LA wildfires likely will increase homeowner costs - Scotsman Guide
Home loans and insurance are among the expenses predicted to rise
www.scotsmanguide.com
January 14, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Speaking on the LA wildfires in the Scotsman Guide, with estimates on the impact on LTVs and rates from our paper with Erkan Yönder and @mattkahn1966.bsky.social
www.scotsmanguide.com/news/la-wild...
www.scotsmanguide.com/news/la-wild...
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Registration now open for @urbaneconomics.bsky.social meetings in Berlin: urbaneconomics.org/meetings/emu.... Thanks to everyone who submitted papers (a record number, meaning difficult decisions for our program committee). If your paper was accepted you must register by Jan 30 to be on the program.
UEA 2025 Berlin
urbaneconomics.org
January 14, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Registration now open for @urbaneconomics.bsky.social meetings in Berlin: urbaneconomics.org/meetings/emu.... Thanks to everyone who submitted papers (a record number, meaning difficult decisions for our program committee). If your paper was accepted you must register by Jan 30 to be on the program.
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Policymakers who cannot commit to long-term plans tend to overbuild and maintain larger levee systems compared to those with time-consistent strategies, from Amine Ouazad and Matthew E. Kahn https://www.nber.org/papers/w33333
January 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Policymakers who cannot commit to long-term plans tend to overbuild and maintain larger levee systems compared to those with time-consistent strategies, from Amine Ouazad and Matthew E. Kahn https://www.nber.org/papers/w33333