Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics

Holder of the Noranda Chair in Economics and International Trade, Gilles Duranton has taught at the Paris School of Economics, Princeton University, the Universidad del Norte in Colombia, the University of Lille, and others. A consultant for the CD Howe Institute, the World Bank, and the OECD, he is President of the North American Regional Science Council and has won the Philip Leverhulme Prize, the European Investment Bank Prize, and numerous grants and fellowships. he is the co-editor of the Journal of Urban Economics. Fellow, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Fellow, Spatial Economics Research Centre, Fellow, Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis, Member of the Urban Economics Association, Faculty Fellow, Penn Institute for Urban Research.J. Vernon Henderson is one of the world's leading urban economists. Chair of the Urban Studies Program at Brown University, he has taught at the London School of Economics, Delhi University, Tribhuvan University in Nepal, and Queen's Univresity, Canada. Awarded a Guggenheim Foundation grant and elected a Fellow of the Regional Science Association International, he co-edited the Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, vol. 4 with J.-F. Thisse.William Strange is co-editor of the Journal of Urban Economics and the President of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association. Recipient of the Walter Isard Award for Distinguished Scholarly Achievements in Regional Science, he has published on a variety of subjects.

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.

• Editors are recognized as leaders and can attract an international list of contributors
• Regional and urban studies interest economists in many subdisciplines, such as labor, development, and public economics
• Table of contents combines theoretical and applied subjects, ensuring broad appeal to readers

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