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Prospects for a unified urban general equilibrium theory

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  • Berliant, Marcus

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This is a short essay on open questions in urban economic theory.

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  • Berliant, Marcus, 2006. "Prospects for a unified urban general equilibrium theory," MPRA Paper 379, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    1. Berliant, Marcus & ten Raa, Thijs, 1991. "On the continuum approach of spatial and some local public goods or product differentiation models: Some problems," Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier, vol. 55(1), pages 95-120, October.
    2. Berliant, Marcus & Sabarwal, Tarun, 2008. "When worlds collide: Different comparative static predictions of continuous and discrete agent models with land," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 38(5), pages 438-444, September.
    3. Berliant, Marcus & Papageorgiou, Yorgos Y. & Wang, Ping, 1990. "On welfare theory and urban economics," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 20(2), pages 245-261, September.
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    6. Jones, Larry E., 1983. "Existence of equilibria with infinitely many consumers and infinitely many commodities : A theorem based on models of commodity differentiation," Journal of Mathematical Economics, Elsevier, vol. 12(2), pages 119-138, October.
    7. Berliant, Marcus & Kung, Fan-chin, 2006. "The indeterminacy of equilibrium city formation under monopolistic competition and increasing returns," Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier, vol. 131(1), pages 101-133, November.
    8. Berliant, Marcus, 1991. "Comments on: 'On the foundations of land use theory: Discrete versus continuous populations' by Y. Asami, M. Fujita and T.E. Smith," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 21(4), pages 639-645, December.
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    11. Arthur O'Sullivan & Richard Arnott & Allen Scott & Marcus Berliant & Robert E. Lucas, 2006. "Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, Volume 4: Cities and Geography," Journal of Economic Geography, Oxford University Press, vol. 6(1), pages 91-112, January.
    12. Berliant, Marcus & Fujita, Masahisa, 1992. "Alonso's Discrete Population Model of Land Use: Efficient Allocations and Competitive Equilibria," International Economic Review, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association, vol. 33(3), pages 535-566, August.
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    14. Berliant, Marcus, 1985. "Equilibrium models with land : A criticism and an alternative," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 15(2), pages 325-340, June.
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    Keywords

    Urban General Equilibrium Theory; Universal Commodity Space;

    JEL classification:

    • R13 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - General Equilibrium and Welfare Economic Analysis of Regional Economies
    • D60 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - General
    • D51 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - Exchange and Production Economies

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