A Companion to Urban Economics

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