Companion to Urban Economics

<p>List of Figures viii</p>
<p>List of Tables xi</p>
<p>Notes on Contributors xiii</p>
<p>Preface xx</p>
<p>PART I URBANIZATION</p>
<p>1 The Micro–Empirics of Agglomeration Economies 7<br />Stuart S. Rosenthal and William C. Strange</p>
<p>2 Human Capital Externalities in Cities: Identification and Policy Issues 24<br />Gilles Duranton</p>
<p>3 The First Cities 40<br />Arthur O Sullivan</p>
<p>4 Cross–Country Patterns of Urban Development 55<br />Stephen Malpezzi</p>
<p>PART II URBAN LAND USE</p>
<p>5 The Spatial Pattern of Land Use in the United States 77<br />Elena G. Irwin and Nancy E. Bockstael</p>
<p>6 Monocentric Cities 96<br />Marvin Kraus</p>
<p>7 Space in General Equilibrium 109<br />Marcus Berliant and Courtney LaFountain</p>
<p>8 Testing for Monocentricity 128<br />Daniel P. McMillen</p>
<p>PART III HOUSING AND REAL ESTATE</p>
<p>9 The Economic Theory of Housing Tenure Choice 145<br />Franz Hubert</p>
<p>10 Housing Policy: Low–Income Households in France 159<br />Anne Laferr&egrave;re and David Le Blanc</p>
<p>11 Housing Demand: An International Perspective 179<br />Miki Seko</p>
<p>12 Discrimination in Mortgage Lending 197<br />Anthony M. Yezer</p>
<p>13 Commercial Real Estate 211<br />David Geltner</p>
<p>14 Housing Price Indexes 228<br />Bradford Case</p>
<p>PART IV URBAN TRANSPORTATION</p>
<p>15 Urban Transport Economic Theory 245<br />Yoshitsugu Kanemoto</p>
<p>16 Urban Passenger Travel Demand 261<br />Andr&eacute; de Palma, Robin Lindsey, and Nathalie Picard</p>
<p>17 Urban Transportation and Land Use 281<br />John F. McDonald</p>
<p>18 Urban Transport Policies: The Dutch Struggle with Market Failures and Policy Failures 292<br />Piet Rietveld</p>
<p>PART V URBAN PUBLIC ECONOMICS</p>
<p>19 Financing Cities 311<br />Robert P. Inman</p>
<p>20 Strategic Interaction among Governments 332<br />Jan K. Brueckner</p>
<p>21 Property and Land Taxation 348<br />John Douglas Wilson</p>
<p>22 A Theory of Municipal Corporate Governance with an Application to Land–Use Regulation 372<br />William A. Fischel</p>
<p>PART VI URBAN LABOR MARKETS AND MACROECONOMICS</p>
<p>23 Urban Labor Markets 389<br />Timothy J. Bartik and Randall W. Eberts</p>
<p>24 A Primer on Spatial Mismatch within Urban Labor Markets 404<br />Keith R. Ihlanfeldt</p>
<p>25 Urban Labor Economic Theory 418<br />Yves Zenou</p>
<p>26 Macroeconomic Analysis Using Regional Data: An Application to Monetary Policy 440<br />Gerald A. Carlino and Robert H. DeFina</p>
<p>27 Measuring and Analyzing Urban Employment Fluctuations 460<br />N. Edward Coulson</p>
<p>PART VII QUALITY OF LIFE</p>
<p>28 Measuring Quality of Life 483<br />Glenn C. Blomquist</p>
<p>29 Air Pollution in Cities 502<br />Matthew E. Kahn</p>
<p>30 Urban Crime, Race, and the Criminal Justice System in the United States 515<br />Steven Raphael and Melissa Sills</p>
<p>31 Ethnic Segregation and Ghettos 536<br />Alex Anas</p>
<p>Index 555</p>