Contents:
Acknowledgements
Introduction Paul C. Cheshire and Gilles Duranton
PART I INSIDE THE CITY (OR THEORETICALLY INSIDE THE CITY…):
THEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF CITY STRUCTURE
1. Dennis R. Capozza and Robert W. Helsley (1990), ‘The Stochastic
City’
2. Mitsuru Ota and Masahisa Fujita (1993), ‘Communication
Technologies and Spatial Organization of Multi-unit Firms in
Metropolitan Areas’
3. Jan K. Brueckner, Jacques-François Thisse and Yves Zenou (1999),
‘Why is Central Paris Rich and Downtown Detroit Poor? An
Amenity-Based Theory’
4. Roland Bénabou (1994), ‘Human Capital, Inequality, and Growth: A
Local Perspective’
PART II INSIDE THE CITY (OR …ACTUALLY INSIDE THE CITY?): EMPIRICAL
ANALYSIS OF CITY STRUCTURE
5. Marlon G. Boarnet (1994), ‘The Monocentric Model and Employment
Location’
6. Keith R. Ihlanfeldt (1992), ‘Intraurban Wage Gradients: Evidence
by Race, Gender, Occupational Class, and Sector’
7. Lawrence Thurston and Anthony M.J. Yezer (1994), ‘Causality in
the Suburbanization of Population and Employment’
8. Paul Cheshire and Stephen Sheppard (1995), ‘On the Price of Land
and the Value of Amenities’
9. Jan K. Brueckner (2000), ‘Urban Sprawl: Diagnosis and
Remedies’
PART III SYSTEMS OF CITIES
10. Gilles Duranton and Diego Puga (2000), ‘Diversity and
Specialisation in Cities: Why, Where and When Does it Matter?’
11. Vernon Henderson and Randy Becker (2000), ‘Political Economy of
City Sizes and Formation’
12. Alberto F. Ades and Edward L. Glaeser (1995), ‘Trade and
Circuses: Explaining Urban Giants’
13. Dora L. Costa and Matthew E. Kahn (2000), ‘Power Couples:
Changes in the Locational Choice of the College Educated,
1940–1990’
PART IV THE EMPIRICS OF AGGLOMERATION AND GROWTH
14. Antonio Ciccone and Robert E. Hall (1996), ‘Productivity and
the Density of Economic Activity’
15. Robert Dekle (2002), ‘Industrial Concentration and Regional
Growth: Evidence from the Prefectures’
16. Pierre-Philippe Combes (2000), ‘Economic Structure and Local
Growth: France, 1984–1993’
17. David B. Audretsch (1998), ‘Agglomeration and the Location of
Innovative Activity’
18. Angel de la Fuente (2000), ‘Convergence across Countries and
Regions: Theory and Empirics’
19. Danny T. Quah (1996), ‘Twin Peaks: Growth and Convergence in
Models of Distribution Dynamics’
20. Sergio J. Rey and Brett D. Montouri (1999), ‘US Regional Income
Convergence: A Spatial Econometric Perspective’
PART V THE NEW ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY
21. Paul Krugman (1991), ‘Increasing Returns and Economic
Geography’
22. J. Peter Neary (2001), ‘Of Hype and Hyperbolas: Introducing the
New Economic Geography’
23. Gordon H. Hanson (1996), ‘Localization Economies, Vertical
Organization, and Trade’
24. Donald R. Davis and David E. Weinstein (1999), ‘Economic
Geography and Regional Production Structure: An Empirical
Investigation’
PART VI PUBLIC FINANCE AND POLICY
25. Wallace E. Oates (1999), ‘An Essay on Fiscal Federalism’
26. Jacques Crémer, Antonio Estache and Paul Seabright (1996),
‘Decentralizing Public Services: What Can We Learn from the Theory
of the Firm?’
27. Joseph Gyourko and Joseph Tracy (1991), ‘The Structure of Local
Public Finance and the Quality of Life’
28. Edward M. Gramlich (1994), ‘Infrastructure Investment: A Review
Essay’
Name Index
Edited by Paul C. Cheshire, Professor of Economic Geography, London School of Economics, UK and Gilles Duranton, Department of Economics, University of Toronto, Canada
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