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Production externalities and urban configuration

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M Berliant, SK Peng… - Journal of Economic Theory, 2002 - Elsevier
We formally explore Jacobs' idea that uncompensated knowledge spillovers are crucial for
agglomeration by modeling location-dependent interfirm production externalities in a
general-equilibrium linear-city framework. Good and factor allocation, firms' and ...
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On the fair division of a heterogeneous commodity

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M Berliant, W Thomson… - Journal of Mathematical Economics, 1992 - Elsevier
Abstract Consider a heterogeneous but divisible commodity, bundles of which are
represented by the (measurable) subsets of the good. One such commodity might be land.
The mathematics literature has considered agents with utilities that are nonatomic ...
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Knowledge exchange, matching, and agglomeration

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M Berliant, RR Reed… - Journal of Urban Economics, 2006 - Elsevier
Despite wide recognition of their significant role in explaining sustained growth and
economic development, uncompensated knowledge spillovers have not yet been fully
modeled with a microeconomic foundation. This paper illustrates the exchange of ...
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The endogenous formation of a city: Population agglomeration and marketplaces in a location-specific production economy

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M Berliant… - Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2000 - Elsevier
Much of the literature on the endogenous generation of a city employs increasing returns to
scale in order to obtain agglomeration. In contrast, the model considered here focuses on
the role of marketplaces or trading centers in the agglomeration of population as cities. ...
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Endogenous formation of a city without agglomerative externalities or market imperfections: Marketplaces in a regional economy

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M Berliant… - Regional Science and Urban Economics, 1993 - Elsevier
Abstract This paper develops a general equilibrium model to endogenously generate a
linear city. Rather than assuming agglomerative externalities or increasing returns in
production/transportation technology, interregional transactions costs are considered. To ...
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Equilibrium models with land* 1:: A criticism and an alternative

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M Berliant - Regional Science and Urban Economics, 1985 - Elsevier
Abstract Models of economies either of urban areas or with local public goods often involve
the use of a continuum of consumers along with the use of a commodity called land; each
consumer generally owns a parcel of land of positive area. The purpose of the present ...
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Equal sacrifice and incentive compatible income taxation

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M Berliant… - Journal of Public Economics, 1993 - Elsevier
Abstract The concepts of equal sacrifice and incentive compatibility in income taxation have
been of interest to economists for some time. Here we attempt to integrate the two literatures
in a model that offers a labor-leisure choice to consumers while imposing an equal ...
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KNOWLEDGE CREATION AS A SQUARE DANCE ON THE HILBERT CUBE*

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M Berliant… - International Economic Review, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
This article presents a micromodel of knowledge creation through the interactions among a
group of people. The model features myopic agents in a pure externality model of
interaction. Surprisingly, for a large set of initial conditions we find that the equilibrium ...
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Alonso's discrete population model of land use: Efficient allocations and competitive equilibria

M Berliant… - International Economic Review, 1992 - JSTOR
In his 1964 book, Alonso proposed several concepts of land use equilibrium in terms of
discrete population. However, the so-called new urban economics has been concerned
exclusively with continuous population models. It is our belief that in order to develop ...
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On income taxation and the core

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M Berliant - Journal of Economic Theory, 1992 - Elsevier
Abstract The core of an (optimal) income tax economy is examined. In such economies,
optima are usually second best because the identities of the agents are not known to the
government. Although it is generally unclear how to handle information problems in ...
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On welfare theory and urban economics

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M Berliant, YY Papageorgiou… - Regional Science and Urban …, 1990 - Elsevier
Abstract This paper examines the welfare theorems in the context of urban economics. The
standard model of urban economics, which involves a continuum of agents located in a
continuous space, is first described. Next, examples are given where both potential ...
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On the continuum approach of spatial and some local public goods or product differentiation models: Some problems

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M Berliant… - Journal of Economic Theory, 1991 - Elsevier
Abstract Models with a continuum of consumers and locations such that each consumer can
purchase goods in only one location are examined. Such models are common in the
literature of the new urban economics. An approximation by economies with a finite ...
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[PDF] The horizontal and vertical equity characteristics of the federal individual income tax, 1966-1977

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MC Berliant… - 1985 - nber.org
Page 1. This PDF is a selection from an out-of-print volume from the National Bureau of
Economic Research Volume Title: Horizontal Equity, Uncertainty, and Economic Well-Being
Volume Author/Editor: Martin David and Timothy Smeeding, editors ...
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An equilibrium existence result for an economy with land

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M Berliant - Journal of Mathematical Economics, 1985 - Elsevier
Abstract This research uses a different set of assumptions for land than those used in the
standard general equilibrium framework. In particular, land is modelled explicitly as a subset
of the plane with anything immobile, from flowers and trees to houses, embedded in it. ...
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State and federal tax equity: Estimates before and after the Tax Reform Act of 1986

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MC Berliant… - Journal of Policy Analysis and …, 1993 - Wiley Online Library
Page 1. State and Federal Tax Equity- Estimates Before Marcus C. Berliant and After
the Tax Reform Act of 1986 Robert P . Strauss Abstract The progressivity and equity
of both state and federal individual income taxes, as well ...
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A foundation of location theory: consumer preferences and demand

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M Berliant… - Journal of economic theory, 1988 - Elsevier
Abstract Location models with a continuum of consumers have severe conceptual
shortcomings. This article considers an alternative foundation for location economics. The
commodity space of each of a finite number of consumers is the collection of measurable ...
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Optimal dynamic nonlinear income taxes with no commitment

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M Berliant… - 2011 - mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de
We wish to study optimal dynamic nonlinear income taxes. Do real world taxes share some
of their features? What policy prescriptions can be made? We study a two period model,
where the consumers and government each have separate budget constraints in the two ...
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[CITATION] Measuring the distribution of personal income taxes

MC Berliant, P Strauss - What role for …, 1983 - Duke University Press, Durham NC
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Dynamic urban models: agglomeration and growth

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M Berliant… - Urban Dynamics and Growth: Advances …, 2004 - emeraldinsight.com
Abstract Theoretical models of urban growth are surveyed in a common framework.
Exogenous growth models, where growth in some capital stock as a function of investment is
assumed, are examined first. Then endogenous growth models, where use of some factor ...
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Dynamics of knowledge creation and transfer: The two person case

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M Berliant… - International Journal of Economic Theory, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents a micro-model of knowledge creation and transfer for a couple.
Heterogeneity of people in their state of knowledge is essential for successful cooperation in
the joint creation of new ideas. However, the very process of cooperative knowledge ...
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[CITATION] P. Wang (2002) Production externalities and urban configuration

M Berliant… - Journal of Economic Theory
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Welfare analysis of the number and locations of local public facilities

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M Berliant, SK Peng… - Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2006 - Elsevier
We develop a model with a finite number of households and congestible local public goods
where the level of provision, the number of facilities and their locations are all endogenously
determined. We prove that an equal-treatment identical-provision second-best optimum ...
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A characterization of the demand for land

M Berliant - Journal of Economic Theory, 1984 - Elsevier
Abstract In a model of an economy where land is modelled explicitly as heterogeneous
subsets of the plane and utility takes an integral form, demand can be characterized as a
specific map from endowments and prices into subsets of the plane. A modified form of the ...
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[CITATION] Possibility, impossibility, and history in the origins of the marriage tax

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M Berliant… - National Tax Journal, 2003 - elibrary.ru
Аннотация We examine the marriage tax in a formal setting. We begin with precise
statements of the basic normative principles in the literature and proofs of old and new
impossibility claims. Along the way we document and resolve important ambiguities in the ...
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A foundation of location theory: existence of equilibrium, the welfare theorems, and core

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M Berliant, K Dunz - Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2004 - Elsevier
An exchange economy with land and a finite number of traders is examined. Land is
modeled as a sigma algebra of subsets of a Euclidean space. Since this commodity space
has no natural convex or linear structure, standard existence results cannot be applied. ...
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[CITATION] Knowledge exchange, matching

M Berliant, R Reed… - 2003 - and agglomeration. Mimeo
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[BOOK] Knowledge exchange, matching, and agglomeration

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M Berliant, RR Reed, P Wang… - 2000 - time.dufe.edu.cn
Uncompensated knowledge spillovers have played a central role in explaining sustained
growth and economic development. In their pioneering work, Romer (1986) and Lucas
(1988) develop models in which the positive external effects of society's aggregate ...
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Urban growth and subcenter formation: A trolley ride from the Staples Center to Disneyland and the Rose Bowl

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M Berliant… - Journal of Urban Economics, 2008 - Elsevier
The long-term trends of urbanization suggest: not only have more cities formed, but the
leading metropolises have grown larger, with a number of peripheral subcenters developing
over time. Conventional models of urban growth are limited, in that commuting cost and ...
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[BOOK] On the political economy of income taxation

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M Berliant, M Gouveia… - 1994 - Citeseer
ABSTRACT The literatures dealing with voting, optimal income taxation, and implementation
are integrated here to address the problem of voting over income taxes. In contrast with
previous articles, general nonlinear income taxes that a ect the labor-leisure decisions of ...
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[CITATION] Comments on:'On the foundations of land use theory: Discrete versus continuous populations' by Y. Asami, M. Fujita and TE Smith

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M Berliant - Regional Science and Urban Economics, 1991 - ideas.repec.org
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[CITATION] A general equilibrium model of an economy with land

MC Berliant - 1982 - University of California, Berkeley
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[CITATION] The Vertical and Horizontal Equity Characteristics of the Federal Individual Income Tax

MC Berliant… - Horizontal Equity, Uncertainty and Economic Well- …, 1985
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The indeterminacy of equilibrium city formation under monopolistic competition and increasing returns

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M Berliant… - Journal of Economic Theory, 2006 - Elsevier
We study the indeterminacy of equilibrium in the Fujita–Krugman [When is the economy
monocentric?: von Thünen and Chamberlin unified, Reg. Sci. Urban Econ. 25 (1995) 505–
528] model of city formation under monopolistic competition and increasing returns. Both ...
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Salience: Agenda choices by competing candidates

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M Berliant… - Public Choice, 2005 - Springer
Which issues are discussed by candidates in an election campaign? Why are some issues
never discussed? Model tractability is lost quickly when dealing with these questions, partly
because of the multidimensional voting inherent in models of multiple issues. Our model ...
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A Utility Representation for a Preference Relation on a σ-Algebra

M Berliant - Econometrica: Journal of the Econometric Society, 1986 - JSTOR
General equilibrium models with land often employ a consumption set that consists of a σ-
algebra of subsets of some given set of land in, for example, R 2. The purpose of the present
work is to find a set of conditions under which a complete preordering over a general σ- ...
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Sensitivity analysis for applied general equilibrium models in the presence of multiple Walrasian equilibria

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M Berliant… - Economic Theory, 2002 - Springer
Summary. Pagan and Shannon's (1985) widely used approach employs local linearizations
of a system of non-linear equations to obtain asymptotic distributions for the endogenous
parameters (such as prices) from distributions over the exogenous parameters (such as ...
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[CITATION] Incentive compatible income taxation, individual revenue requirements and welfare

M Berliant… - RCER Working Papers, 1990 - ideas.repec.org
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Bifurcations in regional migration dynamics

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M Berliant… - Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2009 - Elsevier
The tomahawk bifurcation is used by Fujita et al.[Fujita, M., Krugman P., Venables AJ, 1999,
The Spatial Economy: Cities, Regions, and International Trade, MIT Press: Cambridge, MA.]
in a model with two regions to explain the formation of a core–periphery urban pattern ...
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[CITATION] The endogenous formation of a city: Population agglomeration and marketplaces in a location-specific production economy

M Berliant, H Konishi - WORKING …, 1994 - Rochester Center for Economic …
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On the revelation of private information in stock market economies

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M Berliant… - Journal of Mathematical Economics, 1998 - Elsevier
The notion that an agent in a given market can infer from the market price the (non-price)
information received by other agents, as embodied in the existing studies of revealing
rational expectations equilibrium, requires that the agent know the correct functional ...
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[CITATION] On recent expositions of horizontal and vertical equity

M Berliant - 1995 - Department of Economics, …
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Labor differentiation and agglomeration in general equilibrium

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M Berliant… - 2012 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: The aim of this paper is to explore the structure of cities as a function of labor
differentiation, gains to trade, a fixed cost for constructing the transportation network, a
variable cost of commodity transport, and the commuting costs of consumers. Firms use ...
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General competitive equilibrium of the spatial economy: Two teasers

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T Ten Raa… - Regional Science and Urban Economics, 1985 - Elsevier
Abstract The local indivisibility of space complicates general equilibrium analysis. Mazzoleni
and Montesano (1984, p. 286), suggest that the usual reasoning of the non-spatial analyses
of competitive equilibrium can be performed in the context of a commodity space that ...
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Income taxes and the provision of public goods: Existence of an optimum

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M Berliant… - Econometrica, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Ž. Ž. SINCE THE SEMINAL WORK of Vickery 1945 and Mirrlees 1971, economists have
used models of optimal income taxation for policy prescriptions as well as normative
analysis of government behavior. When does an optimal income tax exist? While much of ...
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Explaining the size distribution of cities: x-treme economies

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M Berliant… - 2011 - mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de
We criticize the theories used to explain the size distribution of cities. They take an empirical
fact and work backward to obtain assumptions on primitives. The induced theoretical
assumptions on consumer behavior, particularly about their inability to insure against the ...
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Central place theory

M Berliant - 2005 - ideas.repec.org
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Can information asymmetry cause stratification?

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M Berliant… - Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2010 - Elsevier
The empirical literature has found evidence of locational sorting of workers by wage or skill.
We show that such sorting can be driven by asymmetric information in the labor market,
specifically when firms do not know if a particular worker is of high or low skill. In a model ...
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On models with an uncongestible public good and a continuum of consumers

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M Berliant… - Journal of Urban Economics, 2000 - Elsevier
This short note shows that models with an uncongestible or mildly congestible public good
and a (non-atomic) continuum of consumers have an interesting but unfortunate property.
Only an infinite level of public good provision in the continuum economy can be ...
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[CITATION] A Foundation of Location Theory: Exstence of Equilibrium, the Welfare Theorems and Core

M Berliant, K Dunz - RCER Working Papers, 1991 - econpapers.repec.org
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Incentives and income taxation: the implementation of individual revenue requirement functions

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M Berliant, FH PAGE - Ricerche Economiche, 1996 - Elsevier
Consider an economy where a fixed amount of revenue is to be raised, perhaps to finance a
public good, by a tax on income. The only two goods in the economy are labour (or capital)
and a consumption good, and workers are differentiated by only one parameter. A map ...
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Can information asymmetry cause agglomeration?

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M Berliant… - 2009 - mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de
The modern literature on city formation and development, for example the New Economic
Geography literature, has studied the agglomeration of agents in size or mass. We
investigate agglomeration in sorting or by type of worker, that implies agglomeration in ...
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[CITATION] Horizontal and Vertical Equity: A Theoretical Framework and Empirical Results for the Federal Individual Income Tax 1966-1989

M Berliant - 1996 - Department of Economics, …
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[PDF] On the continuum approach of spatial and some local public goods or product differentiation models

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M Berliant… - 1987 - rcer.econ.rochester.edu
ABSTRACT Models with a continuum of consumers and locations such that consumers can
purchase goods in only one location are examined. Examples satisfying the usual
assumptions but without equilibrium are given. An approximation by economies with a ...
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Nonlinear supporting prices* 1:: The superadditive case

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M Berliant, K Dunz - Journal of Mathematical Economics, 1990 - Elsevier
Abstract Assumptions on allocations and preferences sufficient to allow superadditive price
support are considered for an exchange economy with a finite number of traders when the
commodity space is an ordered topological vector space. The main requirements are a ...
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Rational expectations in urban economics

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M Berliant… - 2012 - mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de
Canonical analysis of the classical general equilibrium model demonstrates the existence of
an open and dense subset of standard economies that possess fully-revealing rational
expectations equilibria. This paper shows that the analogous result is not true in urban ...
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[PDF] The welfare theorems and economics with land and a finite number of traders

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M Berliant, K Dunz - 1986 - rcer.econ.rochester.edu
ABSTRACT The welfare theorems when land is modelled as measurable subsets of the
plane are considered. Convexity of preferences is not a natural assumption in this context.
An example of a Pareto Optimum not supported by linear prices is given. The second ...
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Space in general equilibrium

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M Berliant… - A companion to urban economics, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
How do households distribute themselves in a spatial dimension? Do they distribute
themselves efficiently? What determines land-use patterns? Standard intermediate
microeconomic theory is ill equipped to answer these questions because households and ...
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Supply and Equilibrium in an Economy with Land and Production

M Berliant, HW Jeng - International Economic Review, 1990 - JSTOR
A model with a finite number of consumers trading in land that can be changed through
production is examined. Unlike most other models in urban economics, land is modelled as
measurable subsets of a compact set. Formally, there are three major results. Conditions ...
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Existence of equilibrium with nonconvexities and finitely many agents

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M Berliant, K Dunz - Journal of Mathematical Economics, 1995 - Elsevier
Many economic models in the fields of public finance, location theory, and choice under
uncertainty involve characteristic nonconvexities in either preferences or production sets for
some types of commodities. One useful way to attack such nonconvexities is to employ the ...
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On the Fairness Literature: Comment

M Berliant, K Dunz… - Southern Economic Journal, 2000 - JSTOR
We offer a guide to the recent literature on the problem of fair allocation, and we present
various concepts that have been developed in this literature and the various economic
environments in the context of which they have been analyzed.
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[CITATION] Alonso's discrete population model of land use: Efficiency allocations and competitive equilibrium

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B Marcus… - International Economic Review, 1992
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Labour specialization and city formation

M Berliant… - CEPR Discussion Papers, 1995 - ideas.repec.org
This paper explores the formation of cities through labour specialization, gains to trade, a
fixed cost for the transportation network, imperfect competition between firms, and the
commuting costs of consumers. The model uses a very general setting, allowing a ...
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Increasing returns and perfect competition: the role of land

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M Berliant… - Journal of Urban Economics, 2003 - Elsevier
The classical inconsistency between increasing returns and perfect competition is studied.
For example, if firms must pay a fixed cost of entry but then can produce using a constant
returns to scale technology, they will generally operate at a loss, necessitating a ...
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[CITATION] The Vertical and Horizontal Equity of Recent Tax Reform and Reduction Proposals

R Strauss… - 1979 - unpublished
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[CITATION] Horizontal and Vertical Equity: A Theoretical Framework and Empirical Results for the Federal Income Tax 1966-1987

MC Berliant… - 1991 - University
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Hedonism vs. nihilism: No arbitrage and tests of urban economic models

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M Berliant… - Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2006 - Elsevier
We present two notions of “no arbitrage” in urban economic models and show that there is
no model satisfying both. The standard hedonic housing model of urban economics and its
generalizations are consistent with the first of these, but inconsistent with the second. We ...
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Efficient allocations in club economies

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M Berliant… - Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract We explore the characteristics of Pareto-optimal allocations in the context of local
public goods or clubs. A set of first-order conditions for Pareto optimality is provided.
Classical treatments apparently neglect an important term related to migrant ...
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MISBEHAVIORAL URBAN ECONOMICS*

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M Berliant - Journal of Regional Science, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The author thanks Wally Austen-Smith, Rocco Boldrin, Anabelle Gjerstad, Caesar Kerbs, Isabella
Prindable, and Benny Rothenberg for helpful comments. Gilles Duranton encouraged the author
to write this essay and provided extensive and useful comments. Discussions with Tom ...
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[PDF] The dynamic Heckscher-Ohlin model: A diagrammatic analysis

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E BOND, K IWASA, K NISHIMURA… - International Journal of …, 2012 - rieti.go.jp
Abstract In this paper, we show that the main results of dynamic Heckscher-Ohlin models
(with non-homothetic preferences) can be derived from diagrams which represent the basic
functions in static models such as the Rybczynski line, income expansion paths, and ...
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When worlds collide: Different comparative static predictions of continuous and discrete agent models with land

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M Berliant… - Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2008 - Elsevier
This paper presents a difference in the comparative statics of general equilibrium models
with land when there are finitely many agents, and when there is a continuum of agents.
Restricting attention to quasi-linear and Cobb–Douglas utility, it is shown that with finitely ...
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Locational signaling and agglomeration

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M Berliant… - 2009 - mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de
Agglomeration can be caused by asymmetric information and a locational signaling effect:
The location choice of workers signals their productivity to potential employers. The cost of a
signal is the cost of housing at a location. When workers' marginal utility of housing is ...
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EQUILIBRIUM AND THE CORE IN ALONSO'S DISCRETE POPULATION MODEL OF LAND USE*

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M Berliant… - International Economic Review, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Conventional wisdom tells us that with no market failure and local nonsatiation of
preferences, the core is at least as large as the collection of competitive equilibrium
allocations. We confirm this for a standard model featuring private ownership of land. Next ...
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[CITATION] A Scale-Free Network Structure Explains the City-Size Distribution

M Berliant… - 2008 - Working paper
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[BOOK] Income taxes and the provision of public goods: optima with balanced government budgets

M Berliant, FH Page… - 2001 - en.scientificcommons.org
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[CITATION] Optimal budget balancing income tax mechanisms and the provision of public goods

M Berliant… - Discussion Paper, 1997 - econpapers.repec.org
... Please update your bookmarks. Optimal Budget Balancing Income Tax Mechanisms and
the Provision of Public Goods. Marcus Berliant () and FH Page Additional contact information
FH Page : Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research. ...
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Culture and diversity in knowledge creation

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M Berliant… - 2011 - mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de
Is the paradise of effortless communication the ideal environment for knowledge creation?
Or, can the development of local culture in regions raise knowledge productivity compared
to a single region with a unitary culture? In other words, can a real technological increase ...
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Prospects for a unified urban general equilibrium theory

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M Berliant - Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2007 - Elsevier
Essays predicting the future of a field are like cheap light bulbs: they are dull and have short
shelf life. That will no doubt be true of this essay as well, but I shall at least be brief and focus
on a very specific issue and research agenda, in the hope of stimulating a few filaments. If ...
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[PDF] Welfare analysis of the number and locations of local public facilities

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M Berliant, S Peng… - Sage Urban Studies Abstracts, 2010 - vanderbilt.edu
Abstract We develop a discrete or finite household model with congestable local public
goods where the level of provision, the number of facilities and their locations are all
endogenously determined in a purely normative context. We prove the existence of an ...
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HANDBOOK OF REGIONAL AND URBAN ECONOMICS, VOLUME 4: CITIES AND GEOGRAPHY* HANDBOOK OF REGIONAL AND URBAN ECONOMICS, VOL. 4: A …

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[CITATION] On the Economic Role of Mutual Funds in Perfect Capital Markets

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DP8840 Labor Differentiation and Agglomeration in General Equilibrium

M Berliant… - 2012 - cepr.org
The aim of this paper is to explore the structure of cities as a function of labor differentiation,
gains to trade, a fixed cost for constructing the transportation network, a variable cost of
commodity transport, and the commuting costs of consumers. Firms use different types of ...
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[CITATION] Endogenous Formation Of A City Without Externalities Or Market Imperfections

M Berliant… - RCER Working Papers, 1989 - econpapers.repec.org
By Marcus Berliant and Ping Wang; ENDOGENOUS FORMATION OF A CITY
WITHOUT EXTERNALITIES OR MARKET IMPERFECTIONS.
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Budget Balancedness and Optimal Income Taxation

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M Berliant… - Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
2. The current version of this paper was completed while the first author was visiting Caltech.
An earlier version of this paper, entitled “Income Taxes and the Provision of Public Goods:
Optima and Balanced Government Budgets,” was completed while the second author was ...
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Taxing pollution: agglomeration and welfare consequences

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M Berliant, SK Peng… - 2011 - mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de
This paper demonstrates that a pollution tax with a fixed cost component may lead, by itself,
to segregation between clean and dirty firms without heterogeneous preferences or
increasing returns. We construct a simple model with two locations and two industries ( ...
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Equilibrium and the Core in Alonso's Discrete Population Model of Land Use

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M Berliant… - … Discussion Paper Series No. 2004-118, 2004 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Conventional wisdom tells us that with no market failure and local non-satiation of
preferences, the core is at least as large as the collection of competitive equilibrium
allocations. We con. rm this for a standard model featuring land. Next we consider the ...
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[PDF] Culture and Diversity in Knowledge Creation: The Story of the Tower of Babel Revisited

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M Berliant… - 2009 - webmeets.com
Abstract What are the costs and benefits of knowledge diversity? Does the creation of a
culture of ideas in common among a population raise or lower productivity? What role is
played by interregional interaction among researchers? Can a real technological increase ...
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Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City by Colin Gordon

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M Berliant - Journal of Regional Science, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
... Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City by Colin Gordon. Marcus
Berliant. Article first published online: 30 NOV 2009. ... More content like this. Find more content:
like this article. Find more content written by: Marcus Berliant. ...

DP1270 Labour Specialization and City Formation

M Berliant… - 1995 - cepr.org
This paper explores the formation of cities through labour specialization, gains to trade, a
fixed cost for the transportation network, imperfect competition between firms, and the
commuting costs of consumers. The model uses a very general setting, allowing a ...
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The Dynamics of Knowledge Diversity and Economic Growth

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概要 本論文は, 知識創造活動に携わる人々の間における頭脳ないし知識の (水平的な)
多様性を重視した, 知識創造と伝播の新たなミクロ動学モデルを提案する. 更に, そのモデルを
Helpman・Romer 型の内生的成長理論と融合することにより, R&D における知識労働者の多様 ...
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[HTML] DP1323 Restructuring Production and Work

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[PDF] Dynamic Political Agency with Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard

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M Berliant… - 2008 - cirje.eu-tokyo.ac.jp
Abstract We define a general model of electoral accountability in which an electorate
chooses between an incumbent and a challenger in an infinite sequence of elec $ tions. We
assume that politician types are private information and that the actions of an offi ceholder ...
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Repeated Commuting

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M Berliant - 2011 - mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de
We examine commuting in a game-theoretic setting with a continuum of commuters.
Commuters' home and work locations can be heterogeneous. The exogenous transport
network is arbitrary. Traffic speed is determined by link capacity and by local congestion at ...
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[CITATION] NATIONAL TAX ASSOCIATION PROCEEDINGS

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[CITATION] Endogenous Fromation Of A City With Externalities Or Market Imperfections

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By Marcus Berliant and Ping Wang; ENDOGENOUS FROMATION OF A CITY
WITH EXTERNALITIES OR MARKET IMPERFECTIONS.
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[PDF] Well Isn't That Spatial?! Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics: A View From Economic Theory

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M Berliant - Urban/Regional, 2005 - 129.3.20.41
As a younger and more naïve reviewer of the first volume of the Handbook (along with Thijs
ten Raa, 1994) more than a decade ago, it is natural to begin with a comparison for the
purpose of evaluating the progress or lack thereof in the discipline. 1 Then I will discuss ...
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[CITATION] Increasing returns and perfect competition: the role of land

M Berliant… - Discussion Paper, 1997 - econpapers.repec.org
Related works: Journal Article: Increasing returns and perfect competition: the role of land
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title. ... This site is part of RePEc and all the data displayed here is part of the RePEc data ...
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Distributional analysis of prospective 2009 US individual income taxes: current law and the candidates' tax plans

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M Berliant… - 2008 - mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de
The purpose of this paper is to compare the distributional characteristics of two presidential
candidates' proposed reforms to the US federal individual income tax. Using an anonymous
sample of tax return data from the Brookings-Urban Institute Tax Policy Center and the ...
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A scale-free transportation network explains the city-size distribution

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M Berliant… - 2011 - mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de
Zipf's law is one of the best-known empirical regularities of the city-size distribution. There is
extensive research on the subject, where each city is treated symmetrically in terms of the
cost of transactions with other cities. Recent developments in network theory facilitate the ...
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Local politics and economic geography

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M Berliant… - 2011 - mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de
We consider information aggregation in national and local elections when voters are mobile
and might sort themselves into local districts. Using a standard model of private information
for voters in elections in combination with a New Economic Geography model, ...
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