Talk:Urban economics

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BetacommandBot 11:36, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

why aren't my embedded sources appearing?
I'm working on adding to the urban economics page. I'm citing using embedded sources, but they aren't showing up on the actual web page. What's going on? The sources I'm citing show up- if you go to "edit this page" you can see all of the citations so why aren't they appearing? Any thoughts? Darcyescraig (talk) 01:40, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Dr. Henderson's comment on this article
Dr. Henderson has reviewed this Wikipedia page, and provided us with the following comments to improve its quality:

"This is very dated and short, Has nothing about systems of cities which even a text like O'Sullivan has in depth."

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 * Reference : J. Vernon Henderson & Mohammad Arzaghi, 2005. "Networking Off Madison Avenue," Working Papers 05-15, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau.

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Dr. Tripathi's comment on this article
Dr. Tripathi has reviewed this Wikipedia page, and provided us with the following comments to improve its quality:

"Comment 1: Under "Housing and public policy" section we need little more explanation on the following sentence "In analyzing housing policies, we make use of market structures e.g., perfect market structure."

Comment 2: The article is well written and given the evolution of urban economics over the different periods of time along with different aspects of urban economics. However, I think it has missed out the most recent contribution of urban economics from the perspective of New Economic Geography and linking urbanization with economic growth by considering developed and developing country separately. So basically, we need to add the contribution from some of the renounced urban economist such as Masahisa Fujita, Paul Krugman,  Tomoya Mori, Edward L. Glaeser, J. Vernon Henderso.

Otherwise it is all right."

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 * Reference : Tripathi, Sabyasachi, 2014. "Determinants of large city slum incidence in India: A cross-sectional study," MPRA Paper 57239, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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Dr. Ioannides's comment on this article
Dr. Ioannides has reviewed this Wikipedia page, and provided us with the following comments to improve its quality:

"I think this entry totally ignores the very recent developments in this area of economics and also ignores some earlier critical development. An example of the former is the major boost that the research in economic geography by Paul Krugman, which in fact earned the the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2008. http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/2008/press.html. This involves using new trade theory, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_trade_theory, by means of Paul Krugman, 1991. "Increasing Returns and Economic Geography." Journal of Political Economy, 1991, vol. 99, no. 3], 483--499. This work emphasizes how a country can endogenously become differentiated into an industrialized "core" and an agricultural "periphery." In order to realize scale economies while minimizing transport costs, manufacturing firms tend to locate in the region with larger demand, but the location of demand itself depends on the distribution of manufacturing. Emergence of a core-periphery pattern depends on transportation costs, economies of scale, and the share of manufacturing in national income. In an important sense this endogenizes cities and thus allows the study of the system of cities in an economy.

Regarding the foremr, prior to Krugman (1991), the work by J. Vernon Henderson, 1974, "The Sizes and Types of Cities," American Economic Review. 64, 640-656 is most notable because it rests on how local urban geography accommodates an economy that fosters specialization while the entire economy thrives via intercity trade. Many different industries gives rises to benefits of agglomeration, which are in effect Marshallian externalities that are external to each industry in the city but internal to the city economy, but also generate congestion. There is a trade that naturally leads different industries being located in diffferent cities. all cities in an economy are served by intercity trade. The paper provides a general equilibrium model that links the work by William Alonso, Richard Muth, and Edwin Mills with how an entire economy takes advantage of local economies of scale. This feature of the model is best articulated by Esteban Rossi-Hansberg and Mark L. J. Wright, 2007, "Urban Structure and Growth." Review of Economic Studies, 74:2, 597--624"

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 * Reference : Xavier Gabaix & Yannis M. Ioannides, 2003. "The Evolution of City Size Distributions," Discussion Papers Series, Department of Economics, Tufts University 0310, Department of Economics, Tufts University.

ExpertIdeasBot (talk) 15:22, 11 July 2016 (UTC)