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
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
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).
Reviews for A Companion to Urban Economics
?Provides a broader and more accessible summary of the state of economists? knowledge about cities...succeeds marvelously in its stated task of providing a fascinating set of essays...an enjoyable book that is a significant contribution to the field.? Journal of Regional Science
