Companion to Urban Economics

Name: Companion to Urban Economics
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ISBN: 9781405179683

ISBN-10: 1405179686

ISBN-13: 9781405179683

Edition: 2008

Authors: Richard J. Arnott, Daniel P. McMillen

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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

Book details

List price: $89.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/15/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 608
Size: 6.82" wide x 9.76" long x 1.23" tall
Weight: 2.310
Language: English

Richard Arnott is Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of California, Riverside.



List of Figures


List of Tables


Notes on Contributors


Preface



Urbanization



The Micro-Empirics of Agglomeration Economies




Human Capital Externalities in Cities: Identification and Policy Issues




The First Cities




Cross-Country Patterns of Urban Development




Urban Land Use



The Spatial Pattern of Land Use in the United States




Monocentric Cities




Space in General Equilibrium




Testing for Monocentricity




Housing and Real Estate



The Economic Theory of Housing Tenure Choice




Housing Policy: Low-Income Households in France




Housing Demand: An International Perspective




Discrimination in Mortgage Lending




Commercial Real Estate




Housing Price Indexes




Urban Transportation



Urban Transport Economic Theory




Urban Passenger Travel Demand




Urban Transportation and Land Use




Urban Transport Policies: The Dutch Struggle with Market Failures and Policy Failures




Urban Public Economics



Financing Cities




Strategic Interaction among Governments




Property and Land Taxation




A Theory of Municipal Corporate Governance with an Application to Land-Use Regulation




Urban Labor Markets and Macroeconomics



Urban Labor Markets




A Primer on Spatial Mismatch within Urban Labor Markets




Urban Labor Economic Theory




Macroeconomic Analysis Using Regional Data: An Application to Monetary Policy




Measuring and Analyzing Urban Employment Fluctuations




Quality of Life



Measuring Quality of Life




Air Pollution in Cities




Urban Crime, Race, and the Criminal Justice System in the United States




Ethnic Segregation and Ghettos



Index