Regional Science and Urban Economics

1975 - 2025

Continuation of Regional and Urban Economics.

Current editor(s): D.P McMillen and Y. Zenou

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Volume 88, issue C, 2021

Optimal compulsion for private assembly of property

Roman Zakharenko

The accident externality from trucking: Evidence from shale gas development

Lucija Muehlenbachs, Stefan Staubli and Ziyan Chu

The refugee wave to Germany and its impact on crime

Fabian T. Dehos

The effects of an “urban village” planning and zoning strategy in San Jose, California

C.J. Gabbe, Michael Kevane and William A. Sundstrom

Cross-border casino competition, Externalities and Optimal Tax Policy: A Unified Theory with Quantitative Analysis

Juin-jen Chang, Ingo Fiedler, Ching-chong Lai and Ping Wang

Willingness to pay for clean air: Evidence from diesel vehicle registration restrictions in Japan

Shuhei Nishitateno and Paul Burke

Firms, fires, and firebreaks: The impact of the 1906 San Francisco disaster on business agglomeration

James Siodla

The impact of Airbnb on residential property values and rents: Evidence from Portugal

Sofia F. Franco and Carlos Santos

What happens when Airbnb comes to the neighborhood: The impact of home-sharing on neighborhood investment

Minhong Xu and Yilan Xu

Public good provision and local employment – Evidence from grammar school closures in East Germany

Ronny Freier, Martin Simmler and Christian Wittrock

The causal economic effects of Olympic Games on host regions

Matthias Firgo

Salience of hazard disclosure and house prices: Evidence from Christchurch, New Zealand

Yi Huang

Volume 87, issue C, 2021

Cities of workers, children or seniors? Stylized facts and possible implications for growth in a global sample of cities

Remi Jedwab, Daniel Pereira and Mark Roberts

Human capital externalities or consumption spillovers? The effect of high-skill human capital across low-skill labor markets

Shimeng Liu and Xi Yang

Land conversion across cities in China

Shihe Fu, Xiaocong Xu and Junfu Zhang

How do home purchase restrictions affect elite Chinese graduate students’ job search behavior?

Weizeng Sun, Sisi Zhang, Chengtao Lin and Siqi Zheng

Regional composition of national house price cycles in the US

Jan Prüser and Torsten Schmidt

Measuring heterogeneous preferences for residential amenities

Arthur Caplan, Sherzod Akhundjanov and Kristopher Toll

A tale of two districts: The impact of district consolidation on property values in Shanghai

Huayi Yu and Yujuan Hou

Minimum wages and housing rents: Theory and evidence

Atsushi Yamagishi

Mortgage subsidies, homeownership, and marriage: Effects of the VA loan program

Judith S. Ricks

Estimating the price elasticity of demand for subways: Evidence from Mexico

Lucas Davis

On rational forward-looking behavior in economic geography: An experimental analysis

Iván Barreda-Tarrazona, Tapas Kundu and Stein Østbye

Hits from the Bong: The impact of recreational marijuana dispensaries on property values

Danna Thomas and Lin Tian

In search of better opportunities: Sorting and agglomeration effects among young college graduates in Colombia

Marigee Bacolod, Jorge De la Roca and María Marta Ferreyra

Volume 86, issue C, 2021

The political economy of historic districts: The private, the public, and the collective

Yang Zhou

A spatial analysis of borrowers’ mortgage termination decision – A nonparametric approach

Lu Fang and Henry J. Munneke

Population density and urban air quality

Rainald Borck and Philipp Schrauth

Global bifurcation mechanism and local stability of identical and equidistant regions: Application to three regions and more

José Gaspar, Kiyohiro Ikeda and Mikihasa Onda

School runs and urban traffic congestion: Evidence from China

Weizeng Sun, Dongmei Guo, Qiang Li and Haidong Fang

Do school buses make school choice work?

Samantha Trajkovski, Jeffrey Zabel and Amy Schwartz

Localized commercial effects from natural disasters: The case of Hurricane Sandy and New York City

Rachel Meltzer, Ingrid Gould Ellen and Xiaodi Li

Comparing cities in developed and developing countries: Population, land area, building height and crowding

Remi Jedwab, Prakash Loungani and Anthony Yezer

What makes an artist? The evolution and clustering of creative activity in the US since 1850

Karol Borowiecki and Christian Dahl

The impact of fare-free public transport on travel behavior: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial

Owen Bull, Juan Carlos Muñoz and Hugo E. Silva

The Role of a University in Cluster Formation: Evidence from a National Institute of Science and Technology in Korea

Jongkwan Lee

The long-run effects of the 1930s HOLC “redlining” maps on place-based measures of economic opportunity and socioeconomic success

Daniel Aaronson, Jacob Faber, Daniel Hartley, Bhashkar Mazumder and Patrick Sharkey

Anything new in town? The local effects of urban regeneration policies in Italy

Giuseppe Albanese, Emanuele Ciani and Guido de Blasio

Volume 85, issue C, 2020

Do financial incentives increase the acceptance of power lines? Evidence from Germany

Michael Simora, Manuel Frondel and Colin Vance

Taxed to death? Freight truck collision externalities and diesel taxes

Cody Nehiba

Between two extreme practices of rent-only and deposit-only leases in Korea: Default risk vs. cost of capital

Sung Sik Park and Ju Hyun Pyun

The effect of moving away from home on employee retention: Evidence among U.S. army soldiers

Susan Carter and Ryan D. Swisher

Rush hours and urbanization

Tobias Seidel and Jan Wickerath

Economic diversification and the resiliency hypothesis: Evidence from the impact of natural disasters on regional housing values

N. Edward Coulson, Shawn J. McCoy and Ian McDonough

Does low-skilled immigration increase profits? Evidence from Italian local labour markets

Giorgio Brunello, Elisabetta Lodigiani and Lorenzo Rocco

From twitter to GDP: Estimating economic activity from social media

Agustín Indaco

Protections from natural disasters as local public goods: Migration and local adaptations

Chen-Yu Pan

Ride-sharing, alcohol consumption, and drunk driving

You Zhou

Volume 84, issue C, 2020

Intergovernmental fiscal transfers and tax efforts: Regression-discontinuity analysis for Japanese local governments

Takeshi Miyazaki

Household residential location choice in retirement: The role of climate amenities

Jiajun Lu

Employment density and agglomeration economies in tall buildings

Crocker H. Liu, Stuart Rosenthal and William Strange

It’s not about the money. EU funds, local opportunities, and Euroscepticism

Riccardo Crescenzi, Marco Di Cataldo and Mara Giua

Stability and sustainability of urban systems under commuting and transportation costs

Yuki Takayama, Kiyohiro Ikeda and Jacques Thisse

Does proximity to fast food cause childhood obesity? Evidence from public housing

Jeehee Han, Amy Schwartz and Brian Elbel

Equilibrium existence in the Hotelling model with convex production costs

Davide Dragone and Luca Lambertini

Housing vintage and price dynamics

Lyndsey Rolheiser, Dorinth van Dijk and Alex van de Minne

Does increased access to home mortgage money reduce local crime rates? Evidence from San Diego County

W.C. Bunting

Private-public wage gap and return to experience: Role of geography, gender and education

Jorn Rattso and Hildegunn Stokke

Temporary driving restrictions, air pollution, and contemporaneous health: Evidence from China

Qing Han, Ying Liu and Zilong Lu

Did the London congestion charge reduce pollution?

Colin Green, John Heywood and Maria Navarro Paniagua