Companion To Urban Economics, A

Description:
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

Review:
'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

Table of Contents:
List of Figures. List of Tables. List of Contributors. Preface. Part I: Urbanization:. 1. The Micro-Empirics of Agglomeration Economies: Stuart S. Rosenthal (Syracuse University) and William C. Strange (University of Toronto). 2. Human Capital Externalities in Cities: Identification and Policy Issues:. Gilles Duranton (University of Toronto). 3. The First Cities: Arthur O'Sullivan (Lewis & Clark College). 4. Cross-Country Patterns of Urban Development: Stephen Malpezzi (University of Wisconsin-Madison). Part II: Urban Land Use:. 5. The Spatial Pattern of Land Use in the United States: Elena G. Irwin (Ohio State University) and Nancy E. Bockstael (University of Maryland). 6. Monocentric Cities: Marvin Kraus (Boston College). 7. Space in General Equilibrium: Marcus Berliant (Washington University) and Courtney LaFountain (University of Texas). 8. Testing for Monocentricity: Daniel P. McMillen (University of Illinois). Part III: Housing and Real Estate:. 9. The Economic Theory of Housing Tenure Choice: Franz Hubert (Humboldt University). 10. Housing Policy: Low-Income Households in France: Anne Laferrere (INSEE) and David Le Blanc (World Bank). 11. Housing Demand: An International Perspective: Miki Seko (Keio University). 12. Discrimination in Mortgage Lending: Anthony M. Yezer (The George Washington University). 13. Commercial Real Estate: David Geltner (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 14. Housing Price Indexes: Bradford Case (Federal Reserve Board). Part IV: Urban Transportation:. 15. Urban Transport Economic Theory: Yoshitsugu Kanemoto (University of Tokyo). 16. Urban Passenger Travel Demand: Andre de Palma (Universite de Cergy-Pontoise), Robin Lindsey (University of Alberta), and Nathalie Picard (Universite de Cergy-Pontoise). 17. Urban Transportation and Land Use: John F. McDonald (University of Illinois). 18. Urban Transport Policies: The Dutch Struggle with Market Failures and Policy Failures: Piet Rietveld (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam). Part V: Urban Public Economics:. 19. Financing Cities: Robert P. Inman (University of Pennsylvania). 20. Strategic Interaction among Governments: Jan K. Brueckner (University of California, Irvine). 21. Property and Land Taxation: John Douglas Wilson (Michigan State University). 22. A Theory of Municipal Corporate Governance with an Application to Land-Use Regulation: William A. Fischel (Dartmouth College). Part VI: Urban Labor Markets and Macroeconomics:. 23. Urban Labor Markets: Timothy J. Bartik (W. E. Upjohn Institute) and Randall W. Eberts (W. E. Upjohn Institute). 24. A Primer on Spatial Mismatch within Urban Labor Markets: Keith R. Ihlanfeldt (Florida State University). 25. Urban Labor Economic Theory: Yves Zenou (Research Institute of Industrial Economics, Stockholm). 26. Macroeconomic Analysis Using Regional Data: An Application to Monetary Policy: Gerald A. Carlino (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia) and Robert H. DeFina (Villanova University). 27. Measuring and Analyzing Urban Employment Fluctuations: N. Edward Coulson (Pennsylvania State University). Part VII: Quality of Life:. 28. Measuring Quality of Life: Glenn C. Blomquist (University of Kentucky). 29. Air Pollution in Cities: Matthew E. Kahn (Tufts University). 30. Urban Crime, Race, and the Criminal Justice System in the United States: Stephen Raphael (University of California, Berkeley) and Melissa Sills (University of California, Berkeley). 31. Ethnic Segregation and Ghettos: Alex Anas (State University of New York). Index

Author Biography:
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 Schob, 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).