Economics 104

URBAN ECONOMICS

 
Spring 2003
 
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Study Guide II

1.         What factors affect the demand for labor?

2.         What factors affect the supply of labor?     

3.         What policies can urban areas use to influence growth?

4.         What is the relationship between urban growth and environmental quality?

5.         How is the market value of land determined when it has a limited useful life?

6.         How does the productivity of land affect its rent when it has an unlimited useful life?

7.         How does the productivity of land affect its rent?

8.         What is the relationship between the housing market and the land market?

9.         How is the manufacturing bid-rent function determined with fixed factor proportions?

10.       How is the manufacturing bid-rent function determined with input substitution?

11.       How is the commercial or office bid-rent function determined?

12.       How is the housing price function determined?

13.       How is the residential bid-rent function determined with no consumer substitution?

14.       How is the commercial (office) bid-rent function determined?

15.       How is the housing price function determined when there is no consumer substitution?

16.       How is the housing price function determined when there is consumer substitution?

17.       What is the tradeoff between commuting and housing costs?

18.       How is the residential bid-rent function determined?

19.       How is land use in a monocentric city determined?

20.       How does including the time cost of commuting, noncommuting travel, and two-earner households affect land use?

21.       How do variations in public goods and taxes and pollution and amenities affect land use?

22.       How does the trade-off between housing and commuting costs affect the location of different income groups?

23.       What is the relationship between the urban land and labor markets?

24.       How did the increase in real income, decrease in commuting costs, and jobs moving to the suburbs affect the suburbanization of population?

25.       How did central city problems affect the suburbanization of population?

26.       How did the intracity truck, intercity truck, beltways, automobiles, single-story plants, and suburban airports affect the suburbanization of manufacturing?

27.       How did improvements in communication technology affect the suburbanization of office employment?

28.       How did the automobile contribute to the suburbanization of retailing?

29.       What are different types of shopping centers, and what types of stores are found in them?

30.       What happens in the different stages of suburban development?