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A companion to urban economics / / edited by Richard J. Arnott, Daniel P. McMillen |
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Malden, Massachusetts : , : Blackwell Publishing, , 2006 |
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©2006 |
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1-78268-501-4 |
1-280-85087-6 |
9786610850877 |
1-4051-6416-6 |
0-470-99622-6 |
1-4051-7835-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (604 p.) |
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Blackwell Companions to Contemporary Economics ; ; 4 |
THEi Wiley ebooks |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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A Companion to Urban Economics; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Preface; PART I URBANIZATION; 1 The Micro-Empirics of Agglomeration Economies; 2 Human Capital Externalities in Cities: Identification and Policy Issues; 3 The First Cities; 4 Cross-Country Patterns of Urban Development; PART II URBAN LAND USE; 5 The Spatial Pattern of Land Use in the United States; 6 Monocentric Cities; 7 Space in General Equilibrium; 8 Testing for Monocentricity; PART III HOUSING AND REAL ESTATE; 9 The Economic Theory of Housing Tenure Choice |
10 Housing Policy:Low- Income Households in France11 Housing Demand: An International Perspective; 12 Discrimination in Mortgage Lending; 13 Commercial Real Estate; 14 Housing Price Indexes; PART IV URBAN TRANSPORTATION; 15 Urban Transport Economic Theory; 16 Urban Passenger Travel Demand; 17 Urban Transportation and Land Use; 18 Urban Transport Policies:The Dutch Struggle with Market Failures and Policy Failures; PART V URBAN PUBLIC ECONOMICS; 19 |
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Financing Cities; 20 Strategic Interaction among Governments; 21 Property and Land Taxation |
22 A Theory of Municipal Corporate Governance with an Application to Land- Use RegulationPART VI URBAN LABOR MARKETS AND MACROECONOMICS; 23 Urban Labor Markets; 24 A Primer on Spatial Mismatch within Urban Labor Markets; 25 Urban Labor Economic Theory; 26 Macroeconomic Analysis Using Regional Data:An Application to Monetary Policy; 27 Measuring and Analyzing Urban Employment Fluctuations; PART VII QUALITY OF LIFE; 28 Measuring Quality of Life; 29 Air Pollution in Cities; 30 Urban Crime,Race, and the Criminal Justice System in the United States; 31 Ethnic Segregation and Ghettos; Index |
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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 world's leading urban economists |
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