'A Companion to Urban Economics' is out Now.

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c81222) has announced the addition of "A Companion to Urban Economics" to their offering.

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 worlds leading urban economists.

Authors' bio:

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 The condition of a network when there is not enough bandwidth to support the current traffic load.

congestion - When the offered load of a data communication path exceeds the capacity. (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 Joseph Eugene "Joe" Stiglitz (born February 9, 1943) is an American economist and a member of the Columbia University faculty. He is a recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal (1979) and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics (2001). (2003).

Daniel P. McMillen is Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois at Chicago This article is about the University of Illinois at Chicago. For other uses, see University of Illinois at Chicago (disambiguation).

UIC participates in NCAA Division I Horizon League competition as the UIC Flames in several sports, most notably Basketball. , 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.

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 Research at the University of Toronto has been responsible for the world's first electronic heart pacemaker, artificial larynx, single-lung transplant, nerve transplant, artificial pancreas, chemical laser, G-suit, the first practical electron microscope, the first cloning of T-cells, )

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 “University of Wisconsin” redirects here. For other uses, see University of Wisconsin (disambiguation).
A public, land-grant institution, UW-Madison offers a wide spectrum of liberal arts studies, professional programs, and student activities. )

Part II: Urban Land Use:

5. The Spatial Pattern of Land Use in the United States: Elena G. Irwin (Ohio State University Ohio State University, main campus at Columbus; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1870, opened 1873 as Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College, renamed 1878. There are also campuses at Lima, Mansfield, Marion, and Newark. ) and Nancy E. Bockstael (University of Maryland University of Maryland can refer to:

University of Maryland, College Park, a research-extensive and flagship university; when the term "University of Maryland" is used without any qualification, it generally refers to this school

)

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 University of Illinois may refer to:

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (flagship campus)
University of Illinois at Chicago
University of Illinois at Springfield
University of Illinois system

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)

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 Laferr[c]re (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 George Washington University, at Washington, D.C.; coeducational; chartered 1821 as Columbian College (one of the first nonsectarian colleges), opened 1822, became a university in 1873, renamed 1904. )

13. Commercial Real Estate: David Geltner (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1865 in Boston, moved 1916. It has long been recognized as an outstanding technological institute and its Sloan School of Management has notable programs in business, )

14. Housing Price Indexes: Bradford Case (Federal Reserve Board)

Part IV: Urban Transportation:

15. Urban Transport Economic Theory: Yoshitsugu Kanemoto (University of Tokyo “Todai” redirects here. For the restaurant called Todai, see Todai (restaurant).

The University of Tokyo (東京大学 )

16. Urban Passenger Travel Demand: Andre de Palma Palma or Palma de Mallorca (päl`mä thā mälyôr`kä), city (1990 pop. 325,120), capital of Majorca island and of Baleares prov., Spain, on the Bay of 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 The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is responsible for the Third District of the Federal Reserve, which covers eastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and Delaware. ) 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 The University of California, Berkeley is a public research university located in Berkeley, California, United States. Commonly referred to as UC Berkeley, Berkeley and Cal ) and Melissa Sills (University of California, Berkeley)

31. Ethnic Segregation and Ghettos: Alex Anas (State University of New York (body) State University of New York - (SUNY) The public university system of New York State, USA, with campuses throughout the state. )

Index

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