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Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics
- 1st Edition, Volume 6 - August 1, 2025
- Imprint: North Holland
- Editors: Dave Donaldson, Stephen J. Redding
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 4 3 1 3 0 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 4 3 1 3 1 - 9
Regional and urban economics in the last ten years has benefited from the simultaneous development of new theoretical techniques, new sources of geographic information systems… Read more
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Regional and urban economics in the last ten years has benefited from the simultaneous development of new theoretical techniques, new sources of geographic information systems (GIS) data, rapid advances in computing power, machine learning and artificial intelligence, and renewed public policy interest in transportation infrastructure and appropriate policies towards places “left-behind” by globalization and technological change. This volume reviews this recent wave of research and highlights promising areas for further research. Chapters include Quantitative Regional Economics, Quantitative Urban Economics, Optimal Spatial Policies, Spatial Dynamics, Transportation, Housing Supply and Housing Affordability, Spatial Sorting and Inequality, Local Labor Markets, Spatial Environmental Economics, Spatial Economics for Low and Middle Income Countries, and New Data and Insights for Regional and Urban Economics.
- Comprehensive coverage of frontier research topics, such as quantitative regional economics, quantitative urban economics, and spatial dynamics
- Contributions from some of the leading research scholars in regional and urban economics
- Advanced treatment of optimal spatial policies, including place-based policies and transport infrastructure investments
Graduate students, advanced undergraduates, research economists, and public policy makers, including urban and regional planners
1. New Data and Insights in Regional and Urban Economics
Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan and Adam Storeygard
2. Quantitative Regional Economics
Treb Allen and Konstantinos (Costas) Arkolakis
3. Spatial Environmental Economics
Clare Balboni and Joseph S. Shapiro
4. Housing Supply and Housing Affordability
Gilles Duranton and Nathaniel Baum-Snow
5. Spatial Economics for Low- and Middle- Income Countries
Gharad Bryan and Melanie Morten
6. Spatial Dynamics
Klaus Desmet and Fernando Parro
7. Spatial Sorting and Inequality
Rebecca Diamond and Juan Carlos Suarez Serrato
8. Transportation
Dave Donaldson
9. Optimal Spatial Policies
Pablo Fajgelbaum and Cecile Gaubert
10. Local Labor Markets
Gordon Hanson and Enrico Moretti
11. Quantitative Urban Economics
Stephen J. Redding
Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan and Adam Storeygard
2. Quantitative Regional Economics
Treb Allen and Konstantinos (Costas) Arkolakis
3. Spatial Environmental Economics
Clare Balboni and Joseph S. Shapiro
4. Housing Supply and Housing Affordability
Gilles Duranton and Nathaniel Baum-Snow
5. Spatial Economics for Low- and Middle- Income Countries
Gharad Bryan and Melanie Morten
6. Spatial Dynamics
Klaus Desmet and Fernando Parro
7. Spatial Sorting and Inequality
Rebecca Diamond and Juan Carlos Suarez Serrato
8. Transportation
Dave Donaldson
9. Optimal Spatial Policies
Pablo Fajgelbaum and Cecile Gaubert
10. Local Labor Markets
Gordon Hanson and Enrico Moretti
11. Quantitative Urban Economics
Stephen J. Redding
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 6
- Published: August 1, 2025
- Imprint: North Holland
- Language: English
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Dave Donaldson
Dave Donaldson teaches and carries out research on trade, both international and intranational, with applications in the fields of International Economics, Development Economics, Urban Economics, Economic History, Environmental Economics, and Agricultural Economics. He has studied, among other topics: the welfare and inequality effects of market integration, the impact of improvements in transportation infrastructure, how trade can mitigate and exacerbate the effects of climate change, and how economists can quantify market failures and the interventions (such as industrial policy) that attempt to fix them. He was awarded the 2017 John Bates Clark Medal, given by the American Economic Association to the US-based economist “under the age of forty who is judged to have made the most significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge”, as well as an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship and several grants from the National Science Foundation. He has served as a co-editor at Econometrica and American Economic Journal: Applied Economics and is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. A native of Toronto, Canada, Donaldson obtained an undergraduate degree in Physics from Oxford University and a PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics.
Affiliations and expertise
MIT Department of Economics, USASR
Stephen J. Redding
Stephen Redding’s research interests include international trade, economic geography, and productivity growth. Recent work has been concerned with heterogeneous firms, multi-product firms, the distributional consequences of globalization, agglomeration forces, and transport infrastructure improvements. He is currently the Harold T. Shapiro *64 Professor in Economics in the Economics Department and School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University; Director of the International Trade and Investment (ITI) Program of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); and Co-Director of the Griswold Center for Economic and Policy Studies (GCEPS) at Princeton University. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society, an associate editor of Econometrica and the Quarterly Journal of Economics, an International Research Associate of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, and a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research. Prior to joining Princeton University, he was a Professor in Economics at the London School of Economics and the Yale School of Management. He was awarded the Frisch Medal in 2018, the Bhagwati Prize in 2017, a Global Economic Affairs Prize from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy in 2008, and a Philip Leverhulme Prize Fellowship during 2001-4.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Economics Princeton University, USA