NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Agglomeration Economics

Edward L. Glaeser, editor

Conference held November 30-December 1, 2007
Published in February 2010 by University of Chicago Press
© 2010 by the National Bureau of Economic Research

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364 pages
ISBN: 0-226-29789-6

Table of Contents

Front matter, table of contents, acknowledgments: Edward L. Glaeser (bibliographic info) (download)

Introduction: Edward L. Glaeser (p. 1 - 14) (bibliographic info) (download)

1. Estimating Agglomeration Economies with History, Geology, and Worker Effects: Pierre-Philippe Combes, Gilles Duranton, Laurent Gobillon, Sébastien Roux (p. 15 - 66) (bibliographic info) (download)

2. Dispersion in House Price and Income Growth across Markets: Facts and Theories: Joseph Gyourko, Christopher Mayer, Todd Sinai (p. 67 - 104) (bibliographic info) (download)

3. Cities as Six-by-Six-Mile Squares: Zipf’s Law?: Thomas J. Holmes, Sanghoon Lee (p. 105 - 131) (bibliographic info) (download)

4. Labor Pooling as a Source of Agglomeration: An Empirical Investigation: Henry G. Overman, Diego Puga (p. 133 - 150) (bibliographic info) (download)

5. Urbanization, Agglomeration, and Coagglomeration of Service Industries: Jed Kolko (p. 151 - 180) (bibliographic info) (download)

6. Who Benefits Whom in the Neighborhood? Demographics and Retail Product Geography: Joel Waldfogel (p. 181 - 209) (bibliographic info) (download)

7. Understanding Agglomerations in Health Care: Katherine Baicker, Amitabh Chandra (p. 211 - 236) (bibliographic info) (download)

8. The Agglomeration of U.S. Ethnic Inventors: William R. Kerr (p. 237 - 276) (bibliographic info) (download)

9. Small Establishments/Big Effects: Agglomeration, Industrial Organization and Entrepreneurship: Stuart S. Rosenthal, William C. Strange (p. 277 - 302) (bibliographic info) (download)

10. Did the Death of Distance Hurt Detroit and Help New York?: Edward L. Glaeser, Giacomo A. M. Ponzetto (p. 303 - 337) (bibliographic info) (download)

11. New Evidence on Trends in the Cost of Urban Agglomeration: Matthew E. Kahn (p. 339 - 354) (bibliographic info) (download)

List of contributors, indexes: Edward L. Glaeser (p. 355 - 364) (bibliographic info) (download)

 
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