Urban Economics and Real Estate

This comprehensive summary captures everything learned and discussed in class, meticulously incorporating all the key insights from lectures, articles, and presentation slides. It serves as an all-encompassing resource that distills complex urban economic theories, practical case studies, and cutting-edge research into an engaging and easy-to-follow guide. Foundations of Urban Economics: Understand why cities exist, thrive, and attract businesses, driven by agglomeration effects and transport...

In this assignment (25% of Final Grade) you construct, estimate and evaluate a linear hedonic price model, using Stata software. We assigned you to groups of 3 in which you will complete the assignment. The assignment can be found here Assignment_HedonicPrices_2020.pdf. Data can be downloaded here hedonicprices2020.dta.

In this assignment (10% of Final Grade) you write individually an article for the first edition of The Urban Economist, on a topic in the field of urban economics that has been in the news in the last month. You are asked to reflect on this news item, while taking the economic literature aboard. As these are more opinion articles than pure academic articles, you should take a standpoint on matters. You have to hand in the article for a review session where you are asked to reflect on the arti...

In this assignment (10% of Final Grade) you learn to work with the theoretical urban model, as introduced in Chapters 2 and 3 of ‘Lectures on Urban Economics’. To this aim, you have to form groups of maximally three students. Exercise 2.1 (pp. 250-253) and Exercise 3.2 (p. 254) of the book 'Lectures on Urban Economics' by Jan Brueckner.

All lectures provided in the course Urban Economics and Real Estate. This course is given in the minor Real Estate. Which is a combined minor of the UVA and the VU, both located in Amsterdam