A companion to urban economics /
edited by Richard J. Arnott, Daniel P. McMillen.
- Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2006.
- xxvii, 574 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
- Blackwell companions to contemporary economics ; 4 .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The micro-empirics of agglomeration economies / Human capital externalities in cities : identification and policy issues / The first cities / Cross-country patterns of urban development / The spatial pattern of land use in the United States / Monocentric cities / Space in general equilibrium / Testing for monocentricity / 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 transport economic theory / Urban passenger travel demand / Urban transportation and land use / Urban transport policies : the Dutch struggle with market failures and policy failures / 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 / 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 / Measuring quality of life / Air pollution in cities / Urban crime, race, and the criminal justice system in the United States / Ethnic segregation and ghettos / Stuart S. Rosenthal and William C. Strange -- Gilles Duranton -- Arthur O'Sullivan -- Stephen Malpezzi -- Elena G. Irwin and Nancy E. Bockstael -- Marvin Kraus -- Marcus Berliant and Courtney LaFountain -- Daniel P. McMillen -- Franz Hubert -- Anne Laferrère and David Le Blanc -- Miki Seko -- Anthony M. Yezer -- David Geltner -- Bradford Case -- Yoshitsugu Kanemoto -- André de Palma, Robin Lindsey, and Nathalie Picard -- John F. McDonald -- Piet Rietveld -- Robert P. Inman -- Jan K. Brueckner -- John Douglas Wilson -- William A. Fischel -- Timothy J. Bartik and Randall W. Eberts -- Keith R. Ihlanfeldt -- Yves Zenou -- Gerald A. Carlino and Robert H. DeFina -- N. Edward Coulson -- Glenn C. Blomquist -- Matthew E. Kahn -- Stephen Raphael and Melissa Sills -- Alex Anas.