Reading List (updated:January 10, 2005)

Econ 576 Spatial Economics

Dept. of Economics, Iowa State University

Spring 2005

 

Introduction:

Ohta, Hiroshi and Jacques-Francois Thisse, editors (1993) Does Economic Space Matter?:Essays in Honour of Melvin Greenhut New York: St Martin's Press.

 

Firms: Location, Spatial Pricing, Market Areas:

Anderson, S., de Palma, A. & Thisse, J.-F. (1992) Discrete Choice Theory of Product Differentiation. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Anderson, S., J. Goeree, and Roald Ramer (1997) “Location, Location, Location,” Journal of Economic Theory 77(1):102-127.

Anderson, Simon P., Andre De Palma and Jacques-Francois Thisse (1989)  " Spatial Price Policies Reconsidered," Journal of Industrial Economics, 38(1, Sept):1-18.

Blair, John, and  Robert Primus (1987) "Major Factors in Industrial Location: A Review," Economic Development Quarterly 1(1):72-85.

Carlton, Dennis W.(1983) “The Location and Employment Choices of New Firms: An Econometric Model with Discrete and Continuous Endogenous Variables, The Review of Economics and Statistics  65(3):440-449          

Deaton, Angus (1988) “Quantity, Quality, and the Spatial Variation of Price,” American Economic Review 78(3):418-430.

Greenhut, Melvin and Hiroshi Ohta (1975) The Theory of Spatial Pricing and Market Areas Duke University Press.

Greenhut, J., M.L. Greenhut, and Sheng-Yung Li (1980) “Spatial Pricing Patterns in the United States” Quarterly Journal of Economics  94(2, Mar):329-350.

Hurter, A. & Martinich, J. S. (1989) Facility Location and the Theory of Production. Dordrecht: Kluwer Press.

Isard, Walter (1998) "Location Analysis for Industry and service trades: comparative cost and other approaches," Chapter 2  pp. 7-39 in Isard, Walter; Iwan Azis, Matthew Drennan, Ronald Miller, Sidney Saltzman, and Erik Thorbecke (1998) Methods of Interregional and Regional Analysis Brookfield, VT: Ashgate

Lösch, August (1954) The Economics of Location Yale University Press. (Chapter 9: "The Market Area")

**Kilkenny, Maureen and Jacques Francois Thisse (1999) "Economics of Location: A Selective Survey," Computers and Operations Research 26:1369-1394.

Mathur, V. K. (1983) Location theory of the firm under price uncertainty. Regional Science and Urban Economics, 13, 411-428.

McCann, P. (1993) The logistics-cost location-production problem. Journal of Regional Science, 33, 503-516.

Stahl, Konrad (1987) “Theories of Urban Business Location” Chapter 19 in Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, Volume II edited by E. Mills, Amsterdam: North-Holland, Elsevier Science Publishers.

Land Rent, Value, and Use

Capozza, Dennis, and Robert Helsley (1989) “The Fundamentals of Land Prices and Urban Growth,” Journal of Urban Economics 26:295-306.

 

People: Migration, commuting, and Compensating Differentials

Ben-Porath, Yoram (1967) "The Production of Human Capital and the Life Cycle of Earnings," Journal of Political Economy vol 75, pp 352-365.

**Clark, David E. and William J. Hunter (1992) "The Impact of Economic Opportunity, Amenities and Fiscal Factors on Age-specific Migration Rates," Journal of Regional Science, Vol. 32, pp. 349-365.

Carrington, William, Enrica Detragiache, and Tara Vishwanath (1996) “Migration with Endogenous Moving Costs” American Economic Review 86(4):909-930.

Gerking, Shelby D. and William N. Weirick.  (Aug. 1983)  "Compensating Differences and Interregional Wage Differentials," The Review of Economics and Statistics, 65(3):483-487.

Greenwood, Michael, Gary Hunt, and Dan Rickman (1991)  "Migration, Region­al Equilibrium, and the Estimation of Compensating Differentials," The American Economic Review, 81:1328-1390.

Isserman, Andy, C. Taylor, S. Gerking, and U. Schubert (1986) "Regional Labor Market Analysis," Vol. 1 Handbook of Regional & Urban Economics  pp. 543-580.

Juster, T. and F. Stafford (June 1991) "The Allocation of Time: Empirical Findings, Behavioral Models, and Problems of Measurement," Journal of Economic Literature  29:471-522.

Killingsworth, Mark (1987) “Heterogeneous Preferences, Compensating Wage Differentials, and Comparable Worth,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 102(4):727-42.

Knapp, Thomas and Philip Graves (1989) "On the Role of Amenities in Models of Migration and Regional Development," Journal of Regional Science, Vol. 29, pp. 71-87.

Muth, Richard (1971) “Migration: Chicken or Egg?” Southern Economic Journal, 37(3):295-306 [see also comments and replies SEJ 39(1):39-42]

**Roback, Jennifer (1982) "Wages, Rents and the Quality of Life " Journal of Political Economy 90(6):1257-1278.

 

Diversity

Fischer, Jeffrey and Joseph Harrington (1996) “Product Variety and Firm Agglomeration,”  Rand Journal of Economics 27(2):281-309.

Holmes, Thomas J (May 1999) Localization of Industry and Vertical Disintegration Review of Economics and Statistics 81(2): 314-25.

Murphy, Kevin M., Andrei Shleifer, Robert W. Vishny (1989) “Industrialization and the Big Push” The Journal of Political Economy, 97(5, Oct):1003-1026.

Stigler, G. (1951) "The division of labor is limited by the extent of the market" Journal of Political Economy, 59:185-193.

Venables, A.J. (1996) "Equilibrium locations of vertically linked industries" International Economic Review 37:341-359.

 

Agglomeration and Productivity

Audretsch, David and Maryann Feldman (1996) "Innovation Clusters and the Industry Life Cycle," Review of Industrial Organization 11(2):253-73.

Barkley, David, and Mark Henry (1997) "Rural Industrial Development: To Cluster or not to Cluster?" Review of Agricultural Economics 19(2):308-325.

Becker, Gary and Kevin Murphy (1992) "The Division of Labor, Coordination Costs, and Knowledge," Quarterly Journal of Economics CVII(4):1137-1160

**Ciccone, Antonio, and Robert Hall (1996) "Productivity and the Density of Economic Activity" American Economic Review 86(1):54-70.

**Ellison, Glenn and Edward Glaeser (1997) "Geographic Concentration in U.S. Manufacturing *Industries: A Dartboard Approach," Journal of Political Economy 105(5):889-927.

Glaeser, Edward L.; David C. Mare “Cities and SkillsJournal of Labor Economics, Vol. 19, No. 2. (Apr., 2001), pp. 316-342.

**Henderson, J. Vernon, Ari Kuncoro and Matt Turner (1995) "Industrial Development in Cities," Journal of Political Economy 103(5):1067-90.

Holmes, Thomas J; Stevens, John J “Geographic Concentration and Establishment Scale,” Review-of-Economics-and-Statistics. 2002; 84(4): 682-90.

**Syverson, Chad (2005) “Market Structure and Productivity: A Concrete Example” forthcoming Journal of Political Economy

 

General Equilibrium (new economic geography)

Fujita, Krugman, and Venables, (1999) The Spatial Economy: Cities, Regions, and International Trade Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

**Kilkenny, Maureen (1998) “Transport Costs and Rural Development” Journal of Regional Science 38(2): 293-312.

Holmes, Thomas J (May 1999) “Scale of Local Production and City Size” American Economic Review 89(2): 317-20

Krugman, P. and A. Venables (1996) “Integration, Specialization, and Adjustment,” European Economic Review 40(3-5).

**Krugman, Paul (1991) "Increasing Returns and Economic Geography" Journal of Political Economy vol 99, pp 483-499.

Neary, J. Peter (2001) “Of Hype and Hyperbolas: Introducing the New Economic Geography” Journal of Economic Literature 39(June):536-561.

 

Product Cycle

Cantwell, John (1995) “The Globalization of Technology: What Remains of the Product Cycle Model?” Cambridge Journal of Economics 19(1):155-74.

Duranton, Gilles; Puga, Diego (2001)Urban Diversity, Process Innovation, and the Life Cycle of Products” American Economic Review December; 91(5): 1454-77.

Henderson, J. Vernon (1997) “Medium Size Cities” Regional Science and Urban Economics 27(6):583-612.

Norton, R.D. (1986) "Industrial Policy and American Renewal," Journal of Economic Literature 24(March):1-40.

Vernon, Raymond (1966) "International Investment and International Trade in the Product Cycle," Quarterly Journal of Economics 80(2):190-207.

 

Growth

Barkley, David, Mark Henry, Shuming Bao, and Kerry Brooks (1995) “Tests for Intra-regional Spatial Association Using Spatial Data Analysis,” Papers in Regional Science 74(4):297-316.

Barro, Robert, and Xavier Sala-I-Martin (1999) Economic Growth Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Barro, Robert and Xavier Sala-i-Martin (1992) "Convergence" Journal of Political Economy 100(2):223-251.

Boarnet, Marlon (1994) "An Empirical Model of Intrametropolitan Population and Employment Growth," Papers in Regional Science, 73(2):135-152.

**Duncan Black; Vernon Henderson (1999) “A Theory of Urban GrowthThe Journal of Political Economy, 107(2):252-284.

Carlino, Gerald and Ed Mills (Fall 1987) "The Determinants of County Growth," Journal of Regional Science  27:39-54.

**Kim, Sukkoo (1997) Regions, Resources, and Economic Geography: Sources of U.S. Regional Comparative Advantage, 1880-1987  NBER Working Paper; published in Regional Science and Urban Economics, 29(1, January 1999):1-32.

Lucas, Robert E. (1993) "Making a Miracle," Econometrica,  61(2):251-272.

Temple, J. (1999) “The New Growth Evidence” Journal of Economic Literature 37(March):112-156.

 

Policy

Bartik, Tim (1990) "The Market-Failure Approach to Regional Economic Development Policy," Economic Development Quarterly 4(4):361-370.

Bartik, Timothy (1991) Who Benefits from State and Local Development Policies? Kalamazoo, MI:Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.

Boadway, Robin and David Wildasin (1984) "Market Failure and the Rationale for Government Intervention," pp. 55-73 in Public Sector Economics Little, Brown, and Co., Boston.

Fisher, Peter, and Alan Peters (1998) Chapters 1,2 and 6 in Industrial Incentives, Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.

Gerking, Shelby and William Morgan (1991) "Measuring the Effects of Industrial Location and State Economic Development Policy: A Survey," in Industry Location and Public Policy , Henry Herzog and Alan Schlottman, editors, Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.

Gersovitz, Mark (1989) "Transportation, State Marketing, and the Taxation of the Agricultural Hinterland," Journal of Political Economy 97(5):1113-1137.

Helpman, Elhanan and David Pines (1980) Optimal Public Investment and Dispersion Policy in a System of Open Cities” American Economic Review 70(3):507-514.

**Holmes, Tom (1998) “The Effect of State Policies on the Location of Manufacturing: Evidence from State Borders” Journal-of-Political-Economy 106(4): 667-705.

Isserman, Andrew and Terence Rephann (1994) “New Highways as Economic Development Tools: An Evaluation Using Quasi-Experimental Matching Methods,” Regional Science and Urban Economics 24(6, Dec):723-751.

Isserman, Andy (1994) "State Development Policy and Practice in the United State of America," International Regional Science Review 17:49-100.

Kilkenny, Maureen (1993) "Rural/Urban Effects of Terminating Farm Subsidies" American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 75(4):968-990.

Margolis, Julius (1957) "Secondary Benefits, External Economies, and the Justification of Public Investment," The Review of Economics and Statistics  39(3):284-291.

Morgan, William, John Mutti, and Mark Partridge (1989) "A Regional General Equilibrium Model of the United States: Tax Effects on Factor Movements and Regional Production," Review of Economics and Statistics 71(Nov):626-635.

Oates Wallace E. (1999) “An Essay on Fiscal FederalismJournal of Economic Literature, 37(3):1120-1149.

Persson, Torsten, and Guido Tabellini (1999) “Political Economics and Public Finance” NBER Working Paper no W7097; April.

Walz, U. (1996) "Long-run effects of regional policy in an economic union" The Annals of Regional Science, 30:165-183.

Wohlgemuth, Darin, and Maureen Kilkenny (1998) "Firm Relocation Threats and Copy Cat Costs," International Regional Science Review  21(2):139-162.

 

Publishing in Economics

Burton, M. P. ; E. Phimister (Mar., 1995) “Core Journals: A Reappraisal of the Diamond List” The Economic Journal, Vol. 105, No. 429., pp. 361-373.

Blinder, Alan (1974) “The Economics of Brushing Your Teeth,” Journal of Political Economy  82(4, Jul-Aug):887-891.

Hamermesh, Daniel (1992) “The Young Economist’s Guide to Professional Etiquette” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 6(1):169-179.

Hamermesh, Daniel (1994) “Facts and Myths about Referring,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 8(1):153-163.

McCloskey, Diedre, and S. Ziliak (1996) “The Standard Error of Regressions” Journal of Economic Literature 34(March):97-114.