Brookings-Wharton papers on urban affairs 2009
By: Gary Burtless and Janet Rothenberg Pack, editors
Contributors: Brookings Institution; Wharton School
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780815703006
Subjects: Urban economics; Periodicals; Urban policy
Other titles: Papers on urban affairs 2009
Description: The papers examine a range of issues that are relevant to urban economics, including the effects of job location in an urban area on residential choice patterns, racial bias in mortgage lending, and the effects of urban characteristics on the development of new patents. The volume also contains three papers on urban developments outside of the United States. The topics treated include urban sprawl in Europe, rural-to-urban migration patterns in Brazil, and locational patterns of establishments across Japanese citites -- ix
Notes: Includes papers and comments presented at a conference on November 13-14, 2008 at the Brookings Institution.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Editors' summary; title: Job decentralization and residential location / Leah Platt Boustan and Robert A. Margo. Comments by Edward Glaeser and Janice F. Madden; title: Subprime mortgage pricing : the impact of race, ethnicity, and gender on the cost of borrowing / Andrew Haughwout, Christopher Mayer, and Joseph Tracy. Comment by Dwight M. Jaffee and Tomasz Piskorski; title: What explains the quantity and quality of local inventive activity? / Gerald Carlino and Robert Hunt. Comments by Gilles Duranton and Bruce A. Weinberg; title: Urban sprawl in Europe / Eleonora Patacchini and Yves Zenou. Comments by J. Vernon Henderson and Dennis Epple; title: Connecting lagging and leading regions : the role of labor mobility / Somik V. Lall, Christopher Timmins, and Shouyue Yu. Comments by Ales Anas and Jan K. Brueckner; title: A reconsideration of the NAS rule from an industrial agglomeration perspective / Tomoya Mori and Tony E. Smith. Comments by Yannis M. Ioannides and John M. Quigley.