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.

"This invaluable collection brings together excellent reviews of the state-of-the-art in contemporary Regional and Urban Economics, written by the world’s most renowned experts, thus forming a most welcome addition to what is already an essential collection of reference reviews in the field. It will prove to be of great value as much to those who have been working in the field since the appearance Handbook’s first volume in 1987 or before, as it will be to those who are new in the field." --Erik Verhoef, VU University, The Netherlands"The chapters in this impressive collection, written by the top scholars in the field, offer a rigorous view of the frontiers of urban and regional economics.  Both established and emerging researchers will benefit from the volume's timely focus on empirical methods, heterogeneity, networks, and housing finance and market microstructure.  This volume will be the standard reference in the field for years to come." --Robert Helsley, University of British Columbia  "The fifth volume of Elsevier's Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics is a worthy successor to its fine predecessors.  The chapters are on subjects at the forefront of urban and housing research, and the authors are among the best in their fields.   At a time when urban and housing issues are more important to the study of economics than ever before, the Handbook will serve as a stimulating gateway to its most interesting and important topics.  This is a volume that everybody with an interest in this subject will want to read." --Edward Coulson, University of Nevada

• Volume 5ASection I: Empirical Methods1. Causal Inference in Urban Economics; Nathaniel Baum-Snow and Fernando Ferreira2. Structural Estimation in Urban and Regional Economics; Thomas J. Holmes and Holger Sieg3. Spatial Methods; Stephen Gibbons, Henry G. Overman and Eleonora PatacchiniSection II: Agglomeration and Urban Spatial Structure4. Agglomeration Theory; Kristian Behrens and Frederic Robert-Nicoud5. The Empirics of Agglomeration; Pierre-Philippe Combes and Laurent Gobillon6. Agglomeration and Innovation; Gerald Carlino and William Robert Kerr7. The Role of the Amenities (Environmental and Otherwise) in Shaping Cities; Matthew Edwin Kahn and Randall Phillip Walsh8. Urban Land Use; Gilles Duranton and Diego Puga9. Neighbourhood versus Network Effects; Giorgio Topa and Yves Zenou10. Immigration and the Economy of Cities and Regions; Ethan Lewis and Giovanni PeriVolume 5BSection I: Housing and Real Estate11. Housing Bubbles; Edward Glaeser and Charles G. Nathanson12. Housing, Finance, and the Macroeconomy; Morris A. Davis and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh13. Microstructure of Housing Markets: Search, Bargaining, and Brokerage; Lu Han and William Strange14. United States Housing Policies; Edgar Olsen and Jeffrey Zabel15. How Mortgage Finance Affects the Urban Landscape; Andrew Haughwout, Joseph Tracy and Sewin Chan16. Cycles and Persistence in the Economic Status of Neighborhoods and Cities; Stuart Rosenthal and Stephen RossSection II: Applied Urban Economics17. Taxes in Cities: Interdependence, Asymmetry, and Agglomeration; Marius Brulhart, Sam Bucovetsky and Kurt Schmidheiny 18. Place Based Policies; David Neumark and Helen Simpson19. Regulation and Housing Supply; Joseph Gyourko and Raven Molloy20. Transportation Costs and the Spatial Organization of Economic Activity; Stephen J. Redding and Matthew Turner21. Cities in Developing Countries: Fueled by Rural-Urban Migration, Lacking in Tenure Security, and Short of Affordable Housing; Jan Brueckner and Somik Lall22. The Geography of Development within Countries; Klaus Desmet and J. Vernon Henderson23. Urban Crime; Brendan O’Flaherty and Rajiv Sethi