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Urban economic theory : land use and city size

Print Book, English, 1990
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990
modelos econométricos
xii, 366 p. : il. ; 23 cm
9780521346627, 9780521396455, 0521346622, 052139645X
970446946
Prefacexi
Introduction
1(10)
Nature of the book
1(2)
Bid rent function approach
3(1)
Scope and plan of the book
4(7)
Part I Basic theory
Locational choice of the household
11(39)
Introduction
11(1)
Basic model of residential choice
11(3)
Bid rent function of the household
14(9)
Equilibrium location of the household
23(8)
Extended models
31(11)
Conclusion
42(8)
Bibliographical notes
43(7)
Equilibrium land use and optimal land use: single household type
50(47)
Introduction
50(1)
A preliminary analysis: alternative expressions of bid rent functions
51(2)
Equilibrium land use
53(10)
Optimal land use
63(8)
Equilibrium versus optimal
71(4)
Comparative statics
75(13)
Muth model continued: capital intensity on land
88(4)
Conclusion
92(5)
Bibliographical notes
92(5)
Equilibrium land use and optimal land use: multiple household types
97(36)
Introduction
97(1)
Well-behaved bid rent functions and lot size functions
98(3)
Equilibrium land use
101(12)
Optimal land use
113(7)
Equilibrium versus optimal
120(2)
Comparative statics
122(7)
Conclusion
129(4)
Bibliographical notes
129(4)
Urban aggregates and city sizes
133(44)
Introduction
133(1)
Causes of urban agglomeration
134(3)
Urban accounts
137(3)
Population supply function and population cost function
140(10)
Resource and transport advantages
150(1)
Fixed costs and city sizes
151(9)
Production scale economies and city sizes
160(9)
Conclusion
169(8)
Bibliographical notes
169(8)
Part II Extensions with externalities
Local public goods
177(49)
Introduction
177(2)
A preliminary analysis: the externality model of residential choice
179(5)
Pure city goods
184(8)
Congestible city goods
192(8)
Neighborhood goods
200(10)
Superneighborhood goods
210(8)
Summary and extensions
218(8)
Bibliographical notes
219(7)
Neighborhood externalities and traffic congestion
226(45)
Introduction
226(1)
Crowding externalities and density zoning
227(16)
Racial externalities
243(15)
Traffic congestion and land use for transportation
258(8)
Conclusion
266(5)
Bibliographical notes
266(5)
External economies, product variety, and city sizes
271(79)
Introduction
271(2)
Marshallian external economies
273(11)
Product variety and monopolistic competition
284(9)
Optimal production processes and first-best policies
293(9)
Conclusion
302(5)
Bibliographical notes
303(4)
Appendixes
A Basic mathematics and consumer theory
307(8)
A.1 Concave and convex functions
307(2)
A.2 Envelope theorem
309(2)
A.3 Basic results from consumer theory
311(4)
B Transport cost and land rent
315(7)
Bibliographic notes
319(3)
C Mathematical notes to the text
322(28)
C.1 Calculation for Example 2.1
322(1)
C.2 Derivation of optimality conditions for the HS model (Section 3.4)
322(3)
C.3 Proof of Property 3.3
325(3)
C.4 Proof of relation (3.83)
328(1)
C.5 Proof of Property 3.4
329(2)
C.6 Proofs of Properties 4.10 and 4.11
331(6)
C.7 Derivation of optimality conditions for the HS model (Section 4.4)
337(1)
C.8 Proof of relation (4.59)
338(1)
C.9 Proof of Property 4.13
339(1)
C.10 Proofs of Properties 5.5 and 5.6
340(1)
C.11 Proof of Property 5.8
341(1)
C.12 Comparison of equilibrium rent curves (Section 7.3.1)
342(1)
C.13 Derivation of the optimality conditions for the HST model
343(4)
C.14 Calculation for comparative statics of Table 8.1
347(3)
References350(10)
Author index360(2)
Subject Index362