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Informationen zum Autor 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 (with Tilmann Rave and Ronnie Schöb, 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 (2003). Daniel P. McMillen is Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois at Chicago, 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 (Blackwell, 2007). Klappentext Urban economics is a dynamic, constantly evolving subject, central to the study and practice of economics. Unique in both its rigor and international treatment, 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. The text provides a set of expert, conceptually interesting, and engagingly written essays that together demonstrate the spirit of modern urban economics. This Companion provides an ideal supplement to urban economic textbooks in upper-level undergraduate urban economics courses or in master's level and professional courses, and will provide students with the background needed to address advanced topics in urban economics. Zusammenfassung Unique in both its rigor and international treatment, 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures viii List of Tables xi Notes on Contributors xiii Preface xx PART I URBANIZATION 1 The Micro-Empirics of Agglomeration Economies 7 Stuart S. Rosenthal and William C. Strange 2 Human Capital Externalities in Cities: Identification and Policy Issues 24 Gilles Duranton 3 The First Cities 40 Arthur O'Sullivan 4 Cross-Country Patterns of Urban Development 55 Stephen Malpezzi PART II URBAN LAND USE 5 The Spatial Pattern of Land Use in the United States 77 Elena G. Irwin and Nancy E. Bockstael 6 Monocentric Cities 96 Marvin Kraus 7 Space in General Equilibrium 109 Marcus Berliant and Courtney LaFountain 8 Testing for Monocentricity 128 Daniel P. McMillen PART III HOUSING AND REAL ESTATE 9 The Economic Theory of Housing Tenure Choice 145 Franz Hubert 10 Housing Policy: Low-Income Households in France 159 Anne Laferrère and David Le Blanc 11 Housing Demand: An International Perspective 179 Miki Seko 12 Discrimination in Mortgage Lending 197 Anthony M. Yezer 13 Commercial Real Estate 211 David Geltner 14 Housing Price Indexes 228 Bradford Case PART IV URBAN TRANSPORTATION 15 Urban Transport Economic Theory 245 Yoshitsugu Kanemoto 16 Urban Passenger Travel Demand 261 André de Palma, Robin Lindsey, and Nathalie Picard 17 Urban Transportation and Land Use 281 John F. McDonald 18 Urban Transport Policies: The ...
