Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics

Developments in methodologies, agglomeration, and a range of applied issues have characterized recent advances in regional and urban studies. Volume 5 concentrates on these developments while treating traditional subjects such as housing, the costs and benefits of cities, and policy issues beyond regional inequalities. Contributors make a habit of combining theory and empirics in each chapter, guiding research amid a trend in applied economics towards structural and quasi-experimental approaches. Clearly distinguished from the New Economic Geography covered by Volume 4, these articles feature an international approach that positions recent advances within the discipline of economics and society at large.

Emphasizes advances in applied econometrics and the blurring of "within" and "between" cities Promotes the integration of theory and empirics in most chapters Presents new research on housing, especially in macro and international finance contexts

Volume 5A

Section I: Empirical Methods

1. Causal Inference in Urban Economics; Nathaniel Baum-Snow and Fernando Ferreira

2. Structural Estimation in Urban and Regional Economics; Thomas J. Holmes and Holger Sieg

3. Spatial Methods; Stephen Gibbons, Henry G. Overman and Eleonora Patacchini

Section II: Agglomeration and Urban Spatial Structure

4. Agglomeration Theory; Kristian Behrens and Frederic Robert-Nicoud

5. The Empirics of Agglomeration; Pierre-Philippe Combes and Laurent Gobillon

6. Agglomeration and Innovation; Gerald Carlino and William Robert Kerr

7. The Role of the Amenities (Environmental and Otherwise) in Shaping Cities; Matthew Edwin Kahn and Randall Phillip Walsh

8. Urban Land Use; Gilles Duranton and Diego Puga

9. Neighbourhood versus Network Effects; Giorgio Topa and Yves Zenou

10. Immigration and the Economy of Cities and Regions; Ethan Lewis and Giovanni Peri

 

Volume 5B

Section I: Housing and Real Estate

11. Housing Bubbles; Edward Glaeser and Charles G. Nathanson

12. Housing, Finance, and the Macroeconomy; Morris A. Davis and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh

13. Microstructure of Housing Markets: Search, Bargaining, and Brokerage; Lu Han and William Strange

14. United States Housing Policies; Edgar Olsen and Jeffrey Zabel

15. How Mortgage Finance Affects the Urban Landscape; Andrew Haughwout, Joseph Tracy and Sewin Chan

16. Cycles and Persistence in the Economic Status of Neighborhoods and Cities; Stuart Rosenthal and Stephen Ross

Section II: Applied Urban Economics

17. Taxes in Cities: Interdependence, Asymmetry, and Agglomeration; Marius Brulhart, Sam Bucovetsky and Kurt Schmidheiny

18. Place Based Policies; David Neumark and Helen Simpson

19. Regulation and Housing Supply; Joseph Gyourko and Raven Molloy

20. Transportation Costs and the Spatial Organization of Economic Activity; Stephen J. Redding and Matthew Turner

21. Cities in Developing Countries: Fueled by Rural-Urban Migration, Lacking in Tenure Security, and Short of Affordable Housing; Jan Brueckner and Somik Lall

22. The Geography of Development within Countries; Klaus Desmet and J. Vernon Henderson

23. Urban Crime; Brendan O’Flaherty and Rajiv Sethi