Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics

• Part I. Cities and urban systems: from theory to facts.48. Micro-foundations of urban agglomeration economies (G. Duranton, D. Puga).49. Evidence on the nature and sources of agglomeration economies (S. Rosenthal, W. Strange). 50. Neighborhood effects (S. Durlauf). 51. Human capital externalities in cities (E. Moretti ). 52. Theories of systems of cities (H. Abdel-Rahman, A. Anas). 53. Evolution of city size distributions (X. Gabaix, Y. Ioannides). Part II. The design of local governments and policies54. Urban political economics (R. Helsley). 55. Fiscal decentralization (D. Epple, T. Nechyba). 56. Sprawl and urban growth (E. Glaeser, M. Kahn). 57. Factor mobility and redistribution (H. Cremer, P. Pestieau). Part III. Economic geography and the geography of modern economies58. Agglomeration and economic geography (G. Ottaviano, J.-F. Thisse). 59. The empirics of agglomeration and trade (K. Head, T. Mayer). 60. Agglomeration and regional growth (R. Baldwin, P. Martin). 61. Knowledge spillovers and the geography of innovation (D. Audretsch, M. Feldman). 62. Regional (di) convergence (S. Magrini). 63. Spatial distribution of economic activities in North America (T. Holmes, J. Stevens). 64. The Spatial distribution of economic activities in the European Union (P.-P. Combes, H. Overman). 65. Spatial distribution of economic activities in Japan and China (M. Fujite, T. Mori, J. Henderson, Y. Kanemoto).Part IV. The long-run view on cities and geography66. Historical perspectives on US economic geography (S. Kim, R. Margo). 67. The Historical geography of European cities: An interpretive essay (P. Hohenberg).

"The fourth volume of a handbook that provides comprehensive and accessible surveys of topics in regional and urban economics contains twenty papers that focus on cities and geography" --Journal of Economic Literature, 2005."The contributors to the handbook are to be congratulated for making the insights from rigorous economic analysis accessible to people outside their fields. ...The handbook authors have translated and synthesized a huge volume of specialized economics research, transforming the suitably cryptic into the artfully transparent." --Journal of Economic Geography, 2006.