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N. Edward Coulson

Professor of Economics

Joined the faculty in 1984 

Ph.D., 1983, 

University of California, San Diego

508 Kern Graduate Building

Phone: (814) 863-0625

Fax: (814) 863-4775

E-mail: fyj@psu.edu

Personal Homepage: http://www.econ.psu.edu/~ecoulson/index.htm

Office Hours for Spring 2012: M 2:00 - 3:15, 508 Kern
                                                      T 11:15 - 12:30 P, 370 Business
                                         & by appointment

 

Curriculum Vitae (located on personal homepage)

Areas of Interest:

  • Econometrics
  • Public Finance
  • Urban & Regional Economics

Recent Publications:

"Temporal and Ethnic Decompositions of Homeownership Rates: Synthetic Cohorts Across Five Censuses" (with Maurice Dalton) forthcoming  Journal of Housing Economics

“A Note on Testing the Spatial Error Components Model” (with Fernando Carriazo), forthcoming, Regional Science and Urban Economics

House Price Index Methodologies” forthcoming, International Encyclopedia of Home and Housing, Elsevier.

“Tax Revisions of 2004 and Pro Sports Team Ownership” (with Rodney Fort), forthcoming, Contemporary Economic Policy

“The Long Run Shift-Share: Uncovering the Sources of Sectoral Fluctuations in Metropolitan Areas”, in Volatility and Time Series Econometrics: Essays in Honor of Robert F. Engle (Tim Bollerslev, Jeff Russell and Mark Watson, eds.) Oxford University Press, 2010

“Housing Tenure and Labor Market Impacts: The Search Goes On”  (w/ Lynn Fisher)  Journal of Urban Economics, May 2009, 252-264

“Simultaneous Estimation of  Cohort, Age, and Time Effects in Housing Prices” (with Daniel McMillen), Journal of Housing Economics, June 2008, 17, 138-151

“The Dynamics of Neighborhood-Level Quantile House Price Indexes”,(with Dan McMillen), Urban Studies, July 2007, 44, 1517-1537.

“Analyzing Urban Employment Fluctuations,” in The Blackwell Companion to Urban Economics, 460 - 478, Blackwell Publishing, 2006.

“Compensating Differentials and the Social Benefit of the NFL: Reply,” (with G. Carlino), Journal of Urban Economics, July 2006, 132-138.

“Current Events: The Effects of Electricity Deregulation on State Economies”, Journal of Regional Science, February 2006, 46, 147-168

“Gracing the Land of Elvis and Beale Street: Historic Designation and Property Values in Memphis” (with Michael Lahr) Real Estate Economics Fall 2005, 33, 487-508

“Historic Designation and Neighborhood Turnover” (with  Robin Leichenko)  Urban Studies,  July 2004, 41, 1587-1600

 “Compensating Differentials and the Social Value of NFL Franchises” (with J. Carlino), Journal of Urban Economics, July 2004, 56, 25-50.

“The Benefits of Owner-Occupation in Neighborhoods” (with Susumu Imai and Seok Joon Hwang), Journal of Housing Research, 2003, 14, 1, 21-48

“Determinants of Urban Population Growth: Evidence from Chinese Cities” (w/ Aimin Chen), Urban Studies, November 2002, 39, 2189-2197 (reprinted in Urban Transformation in China, Ashgate Publishing)

"Sectoral Sources of the Massachusetts Miracle and Other Turning Points," Journal of Regional Science, November 2001.

"Spatial Mismatch in Search Equilibrium" (with D. Laing and P. Wang), Journal of Labor Economics, October 2001.

"The Internal and External Impact of Historical Designation on Property Values" (with R. Leichenko), Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, July 2001.

“Sectoral Employment Fluctuations in Central Cities and Suburbs” (with Sheng-wen Chang),   Journal of Urban Economics, March 2001, 49, 199-218

"Transmission of Employment Impacts Between Central City and Suburb" (with S. Chang), Journal of Urban Economics, March 2001.

"Residential Investment, Nonresidential Investment, and GDP" (with M.S. Kim), Real Estate Economics, Summer 2000.

"Sectoral Sources of Aggregate Metropolitan Fluctuations," Regional Science and Urban Economics, November 1999.

"Foreign Industrial Exports and State Manufacturing Performance" (with R. Leichenko), Growth and Change, Fall 1999.

"Why are Hispanic- and Asian-American Ownership Rates So Low?" Journal of Urban Economics, March 1999.

"Housing Inventory and Completion," Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Spring 1999.

Research in Progress:

  • The Evolution of Ownership
  • Calculating the Mean and Variance of Urban Land Values 
  • Optimal Drug Policy in Low Income Neighborhoods
  • Housing Tenure and Labor Market Impacts: The Search Goes On
  • Hedonic Methods and Residential Valuation
  • Simultaneous Estimation of Cohort, Age, and Time Effects in Housing Prices
  • What Do Neighbors Like About Homeowners?