The economics of housing / Mark Blaug.

VOLUMEN 1 -- Acknowledgements, ix -- Introduction / John M. Quigley, xiii -- Part I. Housing and urban spatial structure -- 1. Aggregative model of resource allocation in a metropolitan area / Edwin S. Mills, 3 -- 2. The optimum factory town / Avinash Dixit, 17 -- 3. A comparative static analysis of urban spatial structure / William C. Wheaton, 32 -- 4. The journey-to-work as a determinant of residential location / John F. Kain, 47 -- 5. Spatial aspects of housing quality, density, and maintenance / Richard Arnott, Russell Davidson, David Pines, 71 -- Part II. Housing supply and filtering -- 6. Filtering and housing standards: a conceptual analysis / Ira S. Lowry, 101 -- 7. (1974),'Quality, Commodity Hierarchies, and Housing Markets / James L. Sweeney, 110 -- 8. The short-run comparative statics of a rental housing market / Ralph M. Braid, 131 -- 9. A dynamic model of housing production / Jan K. Brueckner, 156 -- 10. The effects of government housing policies in a vintage filtering model / Ralph M. Braid, 170 -- 11.Housing quality, maintenance and rehabilitation / Richard Arnott, Russell Davidson, David Pines, 195 -- 12. An economic theory of homelessness and housing / Brendan O'Flaherty, 223 -- Part III. Housing demand -- 13. The demand for non-farm housing / Richard F. Muth, 263 -- 14. The demand for housing: a study in specification and grouping / A. Mitchell Polinsky, 331 -- 15. The determinants of housing demand / Eric A. Hanushek, John M. Quigley, 346 -- 16. Estimating the demand for housing characteristics: a survey and critique / James R. Follain, Emmanuel Jiménez, 368 -- 17. Discontinuous budget constraints and estimation: the demand for housing / Jerry A. Hausman, David A. Wise 399 -- Part IV. Housing prices: measurement and interpretation -- 18. Measuring the value of housing quality -- John F. Kain, John M. Quigley, 423 -- 19. A regression method for real estate price index construction / Martin J. Bailey, Richard F. Muth, Hugh O. Nourse, 440 -- 20. Some thoughts on the nature and purpose of house price studies / Duncan Maclennan, 450 -- 21. The efficiency of the market for single-family homes / Karl E. Case, Robert J. Shiller, 463 -- 22. The dynamics of real estate prices / Review of Economics and Statistics, Bradford Case, John M. Quigley, 470 -- 23. Testing the present value relation for housing prices: should i leave my house in San Francisco? / Richard Meese, Nancy Wallace, 485 -- Part V. Hedonic markets and housing choice -- 24. Hedonic prices and implicit markets: product differentiation in pure competition / Sherwin Rosen, 509 -- 25. Modelling the choice of residential location / Daniel McFadden, 531 -- 26. Consumer choice of dwelling, neighborhood and public services / John M. Quigley, 553 -- 27. Comparing the performance of discrete choice and hedonic models / Carl Mason, John M. Quigley, 576 -- 28. A bid rent approach to housing demand / William C. Wheaton, 604 -- 29. Hedonic prices and implicit markets: estimating demand and supply functions for differentiated products / Dennis Epple, 622 -- Name index, 645.

VOLUMEN 2 -- Acknowledgements, ix -- An Introduction by the editor to both volumes appears in Volume I -- Part I. Tenure Choice And Homeownership -- 1. A Model of Housing Tenure Choice / J.Y. Henderson, Y.M. Ioannides, 3 -- 2. A model of housing tenure choice: comment / Yuming Fu, 19 -- 3. Dynamic aspects of consumer decisions in housing markets / J. Vernon Henderson, Yannis M. Ioannides, 22 -- 4. Life cycle consumption and homeownership / Roland Artle, Pravin Varaiya, 41 -- 5. Housing unit maintenance and the mode of tenure / James L. Sweeney, 62 -- 6. Inflation and extraordinary returns on owner-occupied housing: some implications for capital allocation and productivity growth / Patrie H. Hendershott, Sheng Cheng Hu, 90 -- Part II. Regulation in the housing and land markets -- 7. An econometric analysis of rent control / Edgar O. Olsen, 119 -- 8. Uncontrolled prices in a controlled market: the case of rent controls / George Fallis, Lawrence B. Smith, 139 -- 9. The production of housing services and the derived demand for residential energy / John M. Quigley, 147 -- 10. The economics of urban renewal / Otto A. Davis, Andrew B. Whinston, 160 -- 11. Capitalization of intrajurisdictional differences in local tax prices / Bruce W. Hamilton, 175 -- 12. A property rights approach to municipal zoning / William A. Fischel, 186 -- Part III. Housing subsidy policy -- 13. The distribution of tenant benefits in public housing / Michael P. Murray, 207 -- 14. Public policy toward low income housing and filtering in housing markets / James C. Ohls, 225 -- 15. Mortgage default and low downpayment loans: the costs of public subsidy / Yongheng Deng, John M. Quigley, Robert Van Order, 253 -- 16. Housing decisions and the U.S. income tax: an econometric analysis / Harvey S. Rosen, 276 -- 17. Tax subsidies to owner-occupied housing: an asset-market approach / James M. Poterba, 299 -- Part IV. Housing market discrimination -- 18. Housing market discrimination, homeownership, and savings behavior / John F. Kain, John M. Quigley, 325 -- 19. Mortgage lending in Boston: interpreting HMDA data / Alicia H. Munnell, Geoffrey M.B. Tootell, Lynn E. Browne, James McEneaney, 340 -- 20. What constitutes evidence of discrimination in lending? / Michael F. Ferguson, Stephen R. Peters, 369 -- 21. Measuring racial discrimination with fair housing audits: caught in the act / John Yinger, 379 -- 22. Racial prejudice in a search model of the urban housing market / Paul N. Courant, 392 -- Part V. Local taxes, amenities, and property values -- 23. A pure theory of local expenditures / Charles M. Tiebout, 411 -- 24. The effects of property taxes and local public spending on property values: an empirical study of tax capitalization and the tiebout hypothesis / Wallace E. Oates, 420 -- 25. The Property Tax: An Excise Tax or a Profits Tax? / Peter Mieszkowski, 435 -- 26. Amenities and property values in a wodel of an urban area / A. Mitchell Polinsky, Steven Shavell, 459 -- 27. The long- run effects of a residential property tax and local public services / A. Mitchell Polinsky, Daniel L. Rubinfeld, 470 -- Part VI. Risk, mortgage, and financial markets -- 28. Pricing mortgages: an interpretation of the models and results / Patric H. Hendershott, Robert van Order, 495 -- 29. An overview of the option-theoretic pricing of mortgages / James B. Kau, Donald C. Keenan, 532 -- 30. Explicit tests of contingent claims models of mortgage default / John M. Quigley, Robert van Order, 560 -- 31. Interest rate variations, mortgage prepayments and household mobility / John M. Quigley, 579 -- 32. The risk structure of land markets / Dennis R. Capozza, Gordon A. Sick, 587 -- Name index, 611.