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Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs 2009

ISBN-13: 9780815703006
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: BROOKINGS INSTITUTION
Edited by Janet Rothenberg Pack
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Local release date: 12/11/2009
Format: Paperback 290 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: Urban economics [KCU]

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Google Preview: Designed to reach a wide audience of scholars and policymakers, the Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs is an annual series that serves as a forum for cutting-edge, accessible research on urban policy. The editors seek to integrate broader research into the urban policy discussion by bringing urban studies scholars together with economists and researchers studying subjects with important urban implications. In this issue, papers examine a range of issues that are relevant to urban economics: -the effects of job location in an urban area on residential choice patterns -the impact of race, ethnicity, and gender on mortgage lending -the effects of urban characteristics on the development of new patents The volume also contains three papers on urban development outside of the United States: -urban sprawl in Europe -rural-to-urban migration patterns in Brazil -location patterns of industry agglomeration across Japanese cities; Gary Burtless is the John C. and Nancy D. Whitehead Chair in the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution.Janet Rothenberg Pack is professor of business and public policy and real estate at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.; Tentative contents include: * A Farewell to ARMS: The Rise and Fall of Subprime Adjustable Rate Mortgages Andrew Haughwout (Federal Reserve Bank of NewYork), Joseph Tracy (FRB New York), and Christopher Mayer (Columbia University) * What Explains the Quality and Quantity of Local Inventive Activity? Joseph Carlino and Robert Hunt (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia) *Migrating to Economic Density: Rational Decisions or Bright Lights? Somik Lall (World Bank) and Christopher Timmins (Duke University) * The Structure of European Cities Eleonora Patacchini (University of Rome) and Yves Zenou (Stockholm University) *On the New Empirical Regularities among Industrial Location Behavior, Industrial Diversity, and Population Size of Cities in Japan Tomoya Mori (Kyoto University) and Tony Smith (Tufts University) * The Effect of Job Decentralization as a Factor in Post-War Suburbanization: Evidence from State Capitals Leah Platt Boustan (UCLA and National Bureau of Economic Research) and Robert A. Margo (Boston University and NBER); Google Preview content

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