Economia Urbana - Kurt Schmidheiny

Economia Urbana - Urban Economics (11869)

Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Fall 2009.

• 24.11.09: Uploaded problem Set 10. Due Tuesday.

Slides
Muth-Mills Simulator: Excel 2003, Excel 2007 (allow macros and install 'Solver' add-in)
Note: MS Internet Explorer is not able to correclty download MS Excel 2007 files, use another/better browse.
Problem Set 2 (due Monday October 5, during lecture)
Problem Set 3 (due Tuesday October 13, during lecture)
Problem Set 4 (due Monday October 19, during lecture)
Problem Set 5 (due Tuesday October 27, during lecture)
Required Reading:

Brueckner Jan K. (1987), The Structure of Urban Equilibria: A Unified Treatment of the Muth-Mills Model. In: Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, Volume 2, Chapter 20, North-Holland.
Fujita M. and J.-F. Thisse (2002), Economics of Agglomeration: Cities Industrial Location and Regional Growth, Cambridge University Press. Sections 3.3.1-3.3.2.

Brueckner Jan K. and David A. Fansler (1983), The Economics of Urban Sprawl: Theory and Evidence on the Spatial Sizes of Cities, The Review of Economics and Statistics, 65(3), 479-482.

Slides
Von Thünen Simulator (CASA - UCL)
Problem Set 6 (due November 4, during practica), Article in the WSJ, April 25, 2008
Required Reading:

Anas Alex, Richard Arnott, Kenneth A. Small (1998), Urban Spatial Structure, Journal of Economic Literature 36, 1426-1464.
Glaeser, Edward L., Matt Kahn, Chenghuan Chu (2001), Job Sprawl: Employment Location in U.S. Metropolitan Areas, The Brookings Institution Survey Series.
Lang, Robert E. (2000), Office Sprawl: The Evolving Geography of Business, The Brookings Institution Survey Series.

Edward Glaeser, Joseph Gyourko, Raven Saks (2005), Why is Manhattan so expensive? Regulation and the rise in housing prices, Journal of Law and Economics 48, 331-370.
Saku Aura and Thomas Davidoff (2008), Supply constraints and housing prices, Economics Letters, 99, 275277
Rolf Pendall, Robert Puentes, and Jonathan Martin (2006), From Traditional to Reformed: A Review of the Land Use Regulations in the Nation's 50 largest Metropolitan Areas, The Brookings Institution. Report and regional profiles: http://www.brookings.edu/metro/pubs/20060810_landuse.htm

Duranton G, and Diego Puga (2004), Micro-foundations of urban agglomeration economies. In: Henderson V. and J-F. Thisse, eds, Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics Vol. 4, Chapter 49, North-Holland.
Rosenthal S. and W. Strange (2004), Evidence on the Nature and Sources of Agglomeration Economies. In: Henderson V. and J-F. Thisse, eds, Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics Vol. 4, Chapter 49, North-Holland.
Holmes, T. J. (1999), Localization of Industry and Vertical Disintegration, Review of Economics and Statistics, 81(2): 314-25.
Jaffe A., Trajtenberg M., And Henderson R. (1993), Geographic Localization of Knowledge Spillovers as Evidenced by Patent Citations, Quarterly Journal of Economics 108, 577-598.
Dora L. Costa & Matthew E. Kahn (2000), Power Couples: Changes In The Locational Choice Of The College Educated, 1940-1990, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 115(4), 1287-1315.
Hanson, G.H. (1998), North American economic integration and industry location, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 14(2), 30-44.
Glaeser E. L., J. Kolko, and A. Saiz (2001), Consumer City, Journal of Economic Geography 1, 27-50.

Paul Krugman (1996), Confronting the Mystery of Urban Hierarchy, Journal of the Japanese and International Economies 10, 399-418.
Soo, Kwok Tong (2005), Zipfs Law for cities: a cross-country investigation, Regional Science and Urban Economics 35(3), 239 -263.
Duncan Black and Vernon Henderson (2003), Urban evolution in the USA, Journal of Economic Geography 3, 343-272.
Yannis M. Ioannides and Henry G. Overman (2003), Zipfs Law for cities: an empirical examination, Regional Science and Urban Economics 33, 127-137.
Xavier Gabaix and Yannis M. Ioannides (2004), The Evolution of City Size Distributions, In: Henderson V. and J-F. Thisse, eds, Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics Vol. 4, Chapter 49, North-Holland.
Glaeser. E., L, Scheinkman, and A. Shleifer (1995), Economic growth in cross-section of cities, Journal of Monetary Economics 36, 117-143.

D. Cutler, E. Glaeser and J. Vigdor (1999), The Rise and Decline of the American Ghetto, Journal of Political Economy, 107(3). This paper provides an introduction to the disimilarity and isolation segregation indexes.
F. Echenique and Roland Fryer (2007), A Measure of Segregation based on Social Interactions, Quarterly Journal of Economics. This is the paper about "segregated individuals and google"
D. Cutler and Ed Glaeser (1997) Are Ghettos Good or Bad?, Quarterly Journal of Economics
T. Schelling (1971), Dynamic Models of Segregation,, Journal of Mathematical Sociology 1:143-186. You can also take a look to this video in YouTube.
T. Schelling, Micromotives and Macrobehavior, ch. 4.

November 26, 2007: Sergi Guillot Pichot, Director of Corportate Development, 22@Barcelona - The innovation district
November 27, 2006: Josep M Carreras I Quilis, Cap del Servei dInformaci Territorial i Coordinaci Tcnica de la Mancomunitat de Municipis de lrea Metropolitana de Barcelona (MMAMB), "Spatial analysis, urban phenomenons and land policy in the Barcelona metropolitan area". Slides (8.3 Mb).