… 25 The study of regional economic structure using input-output tables … 31 Estimates of
time to economic convergence: an analysis of regions of the European Union … 65 Income …

Modern Urban and Regional Economics Modern Urban and Regional Economics …

… Some critical remarks 212 8.3 The urban structure and regional development 214 8.4
Agglomeration economies: size, productivity and urban growth 216 8.4.1 The optimal city size 216 …

… This new handbook, in contrast, focuses on applied urban … of high quality applied research
in urban economics, as in other … However, there is still a US bias in applied urban research, …

… in urban economics for three main reasons. First, it is only by studying what gives rise to
urban … The micro-foundations of urban agglomeration economies interact with other building …

… in urban and regional economics is in methods. For the first time in the Handbook of Regional
and Urban Economics … applied nature of Urban and Regional Economics means that most …

… Regional economics helps to determine where different types of … in the midst of large urban
centers and others in the suburbs or rural areas. Regional economics combines tools from …

… Yet, for NEG and regional economics to achieve the status of economic theories, it is necessary,
we believe, to explore alternative formulations of monopolistic competition, and to check …

… Unlike urban economics, regional economics is not endowed with a simple and powerful
formal theory equivalent to that of the "monocenric model." If such a theory were to be …

Recovery of causal relationships in data is an essential part of scholarly inquiry in the social
sciences. This chapter discusses strategies that have been successfully used in urban and …