… 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 …
P Nijkamp, ES Mills, PC Cheshire - 1986 - books.google.com
… This new handbook, in contrast, focuses on applied urban … of high quality applied research in urbaneconomics, as in other … However, there is still a US bias in applied urban research, …
… in urbaneconomics 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 regionaleconomics is in methods. For the first time in the Handbook of Regional and UrbanEconomics … applied nature of Urban and RegionalEconomics means that most …
… Regionaleconomics helps to determine where different types of … in the midst of large urban centers and others in the suburbs or rural areas. Regionaleconomics combines tools from …
K Behrens, JF Thisse - Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2007 - Elsevier
… Yet, for NEG and regionaleconomics to achieve the status of economic theories, it is necessary, we believe, to explore alternative formulations of monopolistic competition, and to check …
… Unlike urbaneconomics, regionaleconomics 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 …