1. Edition - August 2006
162.- Euro
2006. 608 Pages, Hardcover
ISBN-10: 1-4051-0629-8
ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-0629-0 - John Wiley & Sons








Detailed 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

From the 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 Laferrère (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: André de Palma (Université de Cergy-Pontoise), Robin Lindsey (University of Alberta), and Nathalie Picard (Université 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