Journal of Urban Economics

1974 - 2025

Current editor(s): S.S. Rosenthal and W.C. Strange

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Volume 76, issue C, 2013

City size, network structure and traffic congestion pp. 1-14

Theodore Tsekeris and Nikolas Geroliminis

The bargaining power of teachers’ unions and the allocation of school resources pp. 15-27

Eric Brunner and Tim Squires

Agglomeration in a city with choosy consumers under imperfect information pp. 28-42

Takaaki Takahashi

Road investments and inventory reduction: Firm level evidence from China pp. 43-52

Han Li and Zhigang Li

Traffic externalities in cities: The economics of speed bumps, low emission zones and city bypasses pp. 53-70

Bruno De Borger and Stef Proost

Local public goods and the demand for high-income municipalities pp. 71-82

Leah Boustan

Second-best cost–benefit analysis in monopolistic competition models of urban agglomeration pp. 83-92

Yoshitsugu Kanemoto

What happens to household formation in a recession? pp. 93-109

Kwan Ok Lee and Gary Painter

A bathtub model of downtown traffic congestion pp. 110-121

Richard Arnott

Hypercongestion in downtown metropolis pp. 122-134

Mogens Fosgerau and Kenneth Small

Volume 75, issue C, 2013

Wal-Mart and the geography of grocery retailing pp. 1-14

Paul B. Ellickson and Paul L.E. Grieco

Valuing school quality using boundary discontinuities pp. 15-28

Stephen Gibbons, Stephen Machin and Olmo Silva

On the origins of land use regulations: Theory and evidence from US metro areas pp. 29-43

Christian Hilber and Frederic Robert-Nicoud

Agglomeration elasticities and firm heterogeneity pp. 44-56

David Maré and Daniel Graham

State and local tax competition in a spatial model with sales taxes and residential property taxes pp. 57-67

Ralph M. Braid

Entrepreneurial land developers: Joint production, local externalities, and mixed housing developments pp. 68-79

Hideo Konishi

Who offers tax-based business development incentives? pp. 80-91

Alison Felix and James Hines

Do governments tax agglomeration rents? pp. 92-106

Hyun-Ju Koh, Nadine Riedel and Tobias Böhm

Volume 74, issue C, 2013

Agglomeration and demographic change pp. 1-11

Theresa Grafeneder-Weissteiner and Klaus Prettner

Market structure, countervailing power and price discrimination: The case of airports pp. 12-26

Jonathan Haskel, Alberto Iozzi and Tommaso Valletti

Language and urban labor market segmentation: Theory and evidence pp. 27-46

Qiang Li

Home market effects with endogenous costs of production pp. 47-58

Armando Garcia Pires

Do foreclosures cause crime? pp. 59-70

Ingrid Gould Ellen, Johanna Lacoe and Claudia Ayanna Sharygin

Option value and the price of teardown properties pp. 71-82

Daniel McMillen and O’Sullivan, Arthur

Segregation and Tiebout sorting: The link between place-based investments and neighborhood tipping pp. 83-98

Spencer Banzhaf and Randall Walsh

Urban density, law and the duration of real estate leases pp. 99-112

Sheridan Titman and Garry Twite

Spatial versus social mismatch pp. 113-132

Yves Zenou

Volume 73, issue 1, 2013

Do borrower rights improve borrower outcomes? Evidence from the foreclosure process pp. 1-17

Kristopher Gerardi, Lauren Lambie-Hanson and Paul Willen

US city size distribution: Robustly Pareto, but only in the tail pp. 18-29

Yannis Ioannides and Spyros Skouras

Does it pay to get an A? School resource allocations in response to accountability ratings pp. 30-42

Steven Craig, Scott Imberman and Adam Perdue

Repairs under imperfect information pp. 43-56

Sanghoon Lee, John Ries and Craig Somerville

Swings in commercial and residential land prices in the United States pp. 57-76

Joseph B. Nichols, Stephen Oliner and Michael R. Mulhall

Does housing drive state-level job growth? Building permits and consumer expectations forecast a state’s economic activity pp. 77-93

Jack Strauss

Geographic clustering and productivity: An instrumental variable approach for classical composers pp. 94-110

Karol Borowiecki

Saving and consumption in cities pp. 111-124

David Frame

Volume 72, issue 2, 2012

Road pricing with optimal mass transit pp. 81-86

Marvin Kraus

Thick-market effects and churning in the labor market: Evidence from US cities pp. 87-103

Hoyt Bleakley and Jeffrey Lin

Value added of teachers in high-poverty schools and lower poverty schools pp. 104-122

Tim Sass, Jane Hannaway, Zeyu Xu, David Figlio and Li Feng

Are compact cities environmentally friendly? pp. 123-136

Carl Gaigne, Stephane Riou and Jacques Thisse

Cultural transmission and discrimination pp. 137-146

Maria Saez-Marti and Yves Zenou

Energy footprint of the city: Effects of urban land use and transportation policies pp. 147-159

William Larson, Feng Liu and Anthony Yezer

Pain at the pump: Gasoline prices and subjective well-being pp. 160-175

Casey Boyd-Swan and Chris M. Herbst

Urban spatial structure, suburbanization and transportation in Barcelona pp. 176-190

Miquel-Àngel Garcia-López

Even small trade costs restore efficiency in tax competition pp. 191-195

Johannes Becker and Marco Runkel

Internalization of congestion at US hub airports pp. 196-209

Itai Ater

Medicaid and the housing and asset decisions of the elderly: Evidence from estate recovery programs pp. 210-224

Nadia Greenhalgh-Stanley

Dialects, cultural identity, and economic exchange pp. 225-239

Oliver Falck, Stephan Heblich, Alfred Lameli and Jens Südekum

Do municipal amalgamations work? Evidence from municipalities in Israel pp. 240-251

Yaniv Reingewertz

Relaxing Hukou: Increased labor mobility and China’s economic geography pp. 252-266

Maarten Bosker, Steven Brakman, Harry Garretsen and Marc Schramm

Migration, housing market, and labor market responses to employment shocks pp. 267-284

Jeffrey Zabel

Volume 72, issue 1, 2012

Inshoring: The geographic fragmentation of production and inequality pp. 1-16

Wen-Chi Liao

Strategic fiscal interaction across borders: Evidence from French and German local governments along the Rhine Valley pp. 17-30

Aurélie Cassette, Edoardo Di Porto and Dirk Foremny

Search and matching in the housing market pp. 31-45

David Genesove and Lu Han

Step tolling with bottleneck queuing congestion pp. 46-59

Charles Lindsey, Vincent van den Berg and Erik Verhoef

Timing is everything: Short-run population impacts of immigration in US cities pp. 60-78

Abigail Wozniak and Thomas J. Murray