A Companion to Urban Economics (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Arnott, Richard J.; Mcmillen, Daniel P.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A Companion to Urban Economics provides a state-of-the-art overview of this field, communicating its intellectual richness through a diverse portfolio of authors and topics. * Unique in both its rigor and international treatment * An ideal supplementary textbook in upper-level undergraduate urban economics courses, or in master's level and professional courses, providing students with the necessary foundation to tackle more advanced topics in urban economics * Contains contributions from the world's leading urban economists

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 608
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781405178358
• Artikelnr.: 38281556

Autorenporträt

Richard J. Arnott is Professor of Economics at Boston College, Massachusetts. His recent research focuses on the economics of urban transportation and he is author of Alleviating Urban Traffic Congestion (with Tilmann Rave and Ronnie Schöb, 2005). He has extensive editorial experience, including serving as an editor for the journals Regional Science and Urban Economics and Journal of Economic Geography and for the books Public Economics: Selected Papers by William Vickrey (1994) and Economics for an Imperfect World: Essays in Honor of Joseph E. Stiglitz (2003). Daniel P. McMillen is Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and a member of the Institute of Government and Public Affairs. His articles have been published in such journals as Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Urban Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, and Real Estate Economics. He is co-author, with John McDonald, of Urban Economics and Real Estate: Theory and Policy (Blackwell, 2007).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures viii
List of Tables xi
Notes on Contributors xiii
Preface xx
PART I URBANIZATION
1 The Micro-Empirics of Agglomeration Economies 7
Stuart S. Rosenthal and William C. Strange
2 Human Capital Externalities in Cities: Identification and Policy Issues
24
Gilles Duranton
3 The First Cities 40
Arthur O'Sullivan
4 Cross-Country Patterns of Urban Development 55
Stephen Malpezzi
PART II URBAN LAND USE
5 The Spatial Pattern of Land Use in the United States 77
Elena G. Irwin and Nancy E. Bockstael
6 Monocentric Cities 96
Marvin Kraus
7 Space in General Equilibrium 109
Marcus Berliant and Courtney LaFountain
8 Testing for Monocentricity 128
Daniel P. McMillen
PART III HOUSING AND REAL ESTATE
9 The Economic Theory of Housing Tenure Choice 145
Franz Hubert
10 Housing Policy: Low-Income Households in France 159
Anne Laferrère and David Le Blanc
11 Housing Demand: An International Perspective 179
Miki Seko
12 Discrimination in Mortgage Lending 197
Anthony M. Yezer
13 Commercial Real Estate 211
David Geltner
14 Housing Price Indexes 228
Bradford Case
PART IV URBAN TRANSPORTATION
15 Urban Transport Economic Theory 245
Yoshitsugu Kanemoto
16 Urban Passenger Travel Demand 261
André de Palma, Robin Lindsey, and Nathalie Picard
17 Urban Transportation and Land Use 281
John F. McDonald
18 Urban Transport Policies: The Dutch Struggle with Market Failures and
Policy Failures 292
Piet Rietveld
PART V URBAN PUBLIC ECONOMICS
19 Financing Cities 311
Robert P. Inman
20 Strategic Interaction among Governments 332
Jan K. Brueckner
21 Property and Land Taxation 348
John Douglas Wilson
22 A Theory of Municipal Corporate Governance with an Application to
Land-Use Regulation 372
William A. Fischel
PART VI URBAN LABOR MARKETS AND MACROECONOMICS
23 Urban Labor Markets 389
Timothy J. Bartik and Randall W. Eberts
24 A Primer on Spatial Mismatch within Urban Labor Markets 404
Keith R. Ihlanfeldt
25 Urban Labor Economic Theory 418
Yves Zenou
26 Macroeconomic Analysis Using Regional Data: An Application to Monetary
Policy 440
Gerald A. Carlino and Robert H. DeFina
27 Measuring and Analyzing Urban Employment Fluctuations 460
N. Edward Coulson
PART VII QUALITY OF LIFE
28 Measuring Quality of Life 483
Glenn C. Blomquist
29 Air Pollution in Cities 502
Matthew E. Kahn
30 Urban Crime, Race, and the Criminal Justice System in the United States
515
Steven Raphael and Melissa Sills
31 Ethnic Segregation and Ghettos 536
Alex Anas
Index 555

Rezensionen

"Provides a broader and more accessible summary of the stateof economists' knowledge about cities...succeeds marvelouslyin its stated task of providing a fascinating set of essays...anenjoyable book that is a significant contribution to thefield."
Journal of Regional Science