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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455115403321

Titolo

Brookings-Wharton papers on urban affairs . 2009 [[electronic resource] /] / Gary Burtless and Janet Rothenberg Pack, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, c2009

ISBN

1-282-40369-9

0-8157-0400-3

9786612403699

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (237 p.)

Collana

Brookings-Wharton papers on urban affairs ; ; 2009

Altri autori (Persone)

BurtlessGary T. <1950->

PackJanet Rothenberg

Disciplina

307

Soggetti

Urban economics

Urban policy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"The annual forum and journal are the products of a collaboration between the Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy and the Zell Lurie Real Estate Center at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Copyright Information; Table of Contents; Preface; Editors' Summary; Job Decentralization and Residential Location; Subprime Mortgage Pricing: The Impact of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender on the Cost of Borrowing; What Explains the Quantity and Quality of Local Inventive Activity?; Urban Sprawl in Europe; Connecting Lagging and Leading Regions: The Role of Labor Mobility; A Reconsideration of the NAS Rule from an Industrial Agglomeration Perspective; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

Tentative contents include: A Farewell to ARMS: The Rise and Fall of Subprime Adjustable Rate MortgagesAndrew Haughwout (Federal Reserve Bank of NewYork), Joseph Tracy (FRB New York), and Christopher Mayer (Columbia University) What Explains the Quality and Quantity of Local Inventive Activity?Joseph Carlino and Robert Hunt (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)Migrating to Economic Density: Rational Decisions or Bright Lights?Somik Lall (World Bank) and Christopher Timmins (Duke University) The Structure of European



CitiesEleonora Patacchini (University of Rome) and Yves Zenou (Stockholm