URBAN ECONOMICS, REAL ESTATE, TRANSPORTATION & PUBLIC POLICY

The chapters of this book synthesize papers on the inter-related topics of urban economics, real estate, transportation and public policy and include applied and empirical research on a variety of sub-topics. These include innovative econometric techniques that are applied to timely problems, such as impacts of flooding in Vancouver, BC Canada on property values; and the determinants of traffic accident fatalities in the US and in Thailand. There are also chapters on more policy-oriented issues, such as the impacts of Covid-19 on real estate in Toronto, ON Canada. The book will appeal to the interest of academics, policy-makers, planners, and geographers.

Contents:

• About the Editor
• Motorcycle Fatalities Revisited: A Classical and Bayesian Analysis (Richard Fowles and Peter D Loeb)
• Risk-Taking Behaviors of Young Motorcycle Drivers in Thailand (Chompoonuh K Permpoonwiwat and Chaturaphat Chantith)
• Inverse Probability Tilting with Heterogeneous Average Treatment Effects (Jeffrey P Cohen and Ke Yang)
• Benefit Spillovers and a Solution with Two-Part Tariffs for Local Public Services (Yukihiro Kidokoro and Anming Zhang)
• Why Do COVID-19 Infection Rates Vary Between Neighborhoods in Toronto, ON Canada? The Role of Housing and Transportation (Mike Brown)
• Estimation of a Production Function Model of Driving Knowledge (Andrew M Welki and Thomas J Zlatoper)
• Allocative Efficiency in the US Air Cargo Industry (Zoe Laulederkind and James H Peoples, Jr)
• The Effect of Economic Sanctions on Domestic Production, Trade and Transportation of Sanctioned Goods (Misak G Avetisyan and David Lektzian)
• Highway Project and Residential Property Quality: The Case of Vías Nuevas De Lima (T Edward Yu, Pedro Rojas, Yohnny Campana, David Hughes and Julio Aguirre)
• Index

Readership: Academic researchers and practitioners in the fields of urban planning and public policy. Policy-makers and human geographers.

Key Features:

• Eminent contributors include Professor Anming Zhang from the University of British Columbia; and Professors Peter Loeb and Richard Fowles, from Rutgers University and the University of Utah, respectively. These authors are all past-presidents of the Transportation and Public Utilities Group (TPUG) of the American Economic Association (the national association for economists in North America). In addition, Professor James Peoples from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the Secretary of TPUG, is a contributor