This paper presents a comparison between optimum and competitive land use patterns within an urban area. The concept of equilibrium in this paper pertains to five sectors: households, housing producers, composite commodity producers, land transactors and transportation authority. The concept of...

The standard model of the regulated firm assumes that the monopoly produces one homogeneous output with two inputs, capital and labor. However, many firms subject to regulatory constraint, particularly public utilities, produce a multitude of products, with related or unrelated demands. This...