A Companion to Urban Economics.

A Companion to Urban Economics.

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 econom...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Arnott, Richard J.
Other Authors: McMillen, Daniel P.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Somerset : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2008.
Series:Blackwell Companions to Contemporary Economics Ser.
Subjects:
Urban economics.
Urban economics
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • A Companion to Urban Economics; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Preface; PART I URBANIZATION; 1 The Micro-Empirics of Agglomeration Economies; 2 Human Capital Externalities in Cities: Identification and Policy Issues; 3 The First Cities; 4 Cross-Country Patterns of Urban Development; PART II URBAN LAND USE; 5 The Spatial Pattern of Land Use in the United States; 6 Monocentric Cities; 7 Space in General Equilibrium; 8 Testing for Monocentricity; PART III HOUSING AND REAL ESTATE; 9 The Economic Theory of Housing Tenure Choice.
  • 10 Housing Policy:Low- Income Households in France11 Housing Demand: An International Perspective; 12 Discrimination in Mortgage Lending; 13 Commercial Real Estate; 14 Housing Price Indexes; PART IV URBAN TRANSPORTATION; 15 Urban Transport Economic Theory; 16 Urban Passenger Travel Demand; 17 Urban Transportation and Land Use; 18 Urban Transport Policies:The Dutch Struggle with Market Failures and Policy Failures; PART V URBAN PUBLIC ECONOMICS; 19 Financing Cities; 20 Strategic Interaction among Governments; 21 Property and Land Taxation.
  • 22 A Theory of Municipal Corporate Governance with an Application to Land- Use RegulationPART VI URBAN LABOR MARKETS AND MACROECONOMICS; 23 Urban Labor Markets; 24 A Primer on Spatial Mismatch within Urban Labor Markets; 25 Urban Labor Economic Theory; 26 Macroeconomic Analysis Using Regional Data:An Application to Monetary Policy; 27 Measuring and Analyzing Urban Employment Fluctuations; PART VII QUALITY OF LIFE; 28 Measuring Quality of Life; 29 Air Pollution in Cities; 30 Urban Crime, Race, and the Criminal Justice System in the United States; 31 Ethnic Segregation and Ghettos.

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