Rankings of urban areas provide useful information to planning recreational or tourism activities, making housing-locational decisions, and designing policies to attract industries. This paper illustrates how the structural approach to hedonic equilibrium models can be used to derive a quality of life based ranking of urban areas.

Dimitrios A. Giannias

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"Ranking Urban Areas: A Hedonic Equilibrium Approach To Quality of Life"

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