Economia Urbana - Urban Economics (11869)
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Fall 2010
Updates:
- Slides Segregation
- Problem Set 9 (due November 29, 5pm)
- 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.
Course Calendar:
Topic 0: Introduction
- Slides
- Problem Set 1 (Due Monday Oct 4, 5pm)
Topic 1: The basic urban model
- Slides
- Problem Set 2 (Due Monday Oct 11, 1pm)
- Problem Set 3 (Due Monday Oct 18, 5pm)
- Solution to Problem Set 3f)
- Problem Set 4 (Due Monday Oct 25, 5pm)
- Excel Solution to Problem Set 4
- Problem Set 5 (Due Tuesday Nov 2, 11am)
- 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. - Required Reading:
- O'Sullivan, chapter 6 (including appendix)
- McDonald/McMillen, chapter 5 and 6
- Helpful Readings for the formal model:
- 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.
- Further Readings:
- 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.
Topic 2: Business Demand for Land
- Slides
- Von Thünen Simulator (CASA - UCL)
- Problem Set 6 (due November 8, 5pm), Article in the WSJ, April 25, 2008
- Required Reading:
- O'Sullivan, chapter 6, pp. 101-116
- McDonald/McMillen, chapter 5, pp. 90-96
Topic 3: Multicentric and edge cities
- Slides
- Required Reading: O'Sullivan, chapter 7.
- Further Readings:
- 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.
Topic 4: Land use control
- Slides
- Problem Set 7 (due November 15, 5pm)
- Required Reading:
- O'Sullivan, chapter 9
- McDonald/McMillen, chapter 6.D (pp. 127-133)
- Further Readings:
- 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
Topic 5: Why do cities exist? - Production and consumption externalities
- Slides
- Problem Set 8 (due November 22, in class)
- Problem Set 9 (due November 29, 5pm)
- Required Reading: O'Sullivan, chapters 2, 3 (and 4).
- Further Readings:
- 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.
Topic 6: Urban segregation
- Slides
- Required Reading: O'Sullivan, chapter 8.
- Further Readings:
- Tiebout, Charles M. (1956), A pure theory of local expenditures, Journal of Political Economy, 64, 416424.
- Jonathan Rauch, Seeing around corners, The Atlantic Monthly, April 2002.
- Jan K. Brueckner, Jacques-Franois Thisse, and Yves Zenou (1999), Why is central Paris rich and downtown Detroit poor? An amenity-base theory, European Economic Review 43, 91-107.
- Kurt Schmidheiny (2006), Income Segregation and Local Progressive Taxation: Empirical Evidence from Switzerland, Journal of Public Economics, 90, 429-458.
Guest Speakers in previous years
- 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).