Essays in Urban Economics and International Trade
Essays in Urban Economics and International Trade

Author: Kilian Tobias Heilmann

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13:

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This dissertation explores three topics in Urban Economics and International Trade. Chapter 1 measures the effect of transit access on neighborhood incomes by exploiting a quasi-experimental setting in Dallas. I show that income in neighborhoods that received rail access increases compared to neighborhoods that were promised to receive access but did not receive it. The treatment effect is positively correlated with initial neighborhood income and highlights the role of transit as an incubator for income segregation. Chapter 2 estimates the impact of international conflict on bilateral trade relations using several incidents of politically motivated boycotts. I find large reductions in exports from the boycotted to the boycotting countries. Product-level results are in line with intuition and most effective for consumer goods while having at most a temporary effect on intermediates and capital goods. Chapter 3 explores the usage of Landsat satellite imagery for the measurement of economic outcomes at small geographies.

An Essay on Urban Economic Theory
An Essay on Urban Economic Theory

Author: Yorgos Y. Papageorgiou

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 1461549477

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Over the past thirty years, urban economic theory has been one of the most active areas of urban and regional economic research. Just as static general equilibrium theory is at the core of modern microeconomics, so is the topic of this book - the static allocation of resources within a city and between cities - at the core of urban economic theory. An Essay on Urban Economic Theory well reflects the state of the field. Part I provides an elegant, coherent, and rigorous presentation of several variants of the monocentric (city) model - as the centerpiece of urban economic theory - treating equilibrium, optimum, and comparative statistics. Part II explores less familiar and even some uncharted territory. The monocentric model looks at a single city in isolation, taking as given a central business district surrounded by residences. Part II, in contrast, makes the intra-urban location of residential and non-residential activity the outcome of the fundamental tradeoff between the propensity to interact and the aversion to crowding; the resulting pattern of agglomeration may be polycentric. Part II also develops models of an urbanized economy with trade between specialized cities and examines how the market-determined size distribution of cities differs from the optimum. This book launches a new series, Advances in Urban and Regional Economics. The series aims to provide an outlet for longer scholarly works dealing with topics in urban and regional economics.