Tony E. Smith

 E-Mail: tesmith@seas.upenn.edu

Campus addresses

Courses

ESE 502. Spatial Data Analysis with GIS Applications

SYS 614. Transportation Network Analysis

Research Interests

A secondary area of research is in transportation and land use modeling. Specific interests focus on network equilibrium models of traffic flows and general equilibrium models of urban land use.

Book

• Gravity Models of Spatial Interaction Behavior (1995) [with Ashish Sen], Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

Recent Papers

• A Spatio-Temporal Model of Housing Prices based on Individual Sales Transactions over Time (2008), [with Peggy Wu]

• A Spatial Modeling Framework for Analyzing Potential Earthquake Damage: an Application to Memphis (2008), [with Richard L. Bernknopf]

• Estimation Bias in Spatial Models with Strongly Connected Weight Matrices (2008), forthcoming in Geographical Analysis .

• Alternative Financial Service Providers and the Spatial Void Hypothesis (2007), [with Marvin M. Smith and John Wackes.] Regional Science and Urban Economics, 38: 205-227.

• Small Area Clustering of Cases of Pneumococcal Bacteremia (2007), [with Joshua Metlay et al.] submitted to Epidemiology.

• Transportation Activity Centers for Urban Transportation Analysis (2006), [with Jeffrey Casello] Journal of Urban Planning and Development, 132: 247-257.                .

• A Divergence Statistic for Industrial Location (2005), [with Tomoya Mori and Koji Nishikimi] Review of Economics and Statistics., 87: 635-651.

• Modeling Patient Flows using a Queuing Network with Blocking (2005), [with Naoru Koizumi and Eri Kuno] Health Care Management Science, 8: 49-61.
  

• A Scale-Sensitive Test of Attraction and Repulsion between Spatial Point Patterns (2004), Geographical Analysis, 36:315-331.
  

• A Spatial Mixture Model of Innovation Diffusion  (2004) [with Sanyoung Song] Geographical Analysis, 36: 199-145.

• A Bayesian Probit Model with Spatial Dependencies (2004) [with James P. LeSage] Spatial and Spatiotemproal Econometrics, edited by J.P. LeSage and R.K. Pace, Elsevier: Amsterdam.
  

• Aggregation Bias in Maximum-Likelihood Estimation of Spatial Autoregressive Processes (2004) Spatial Econometrics and Spatial Statistics, edited by A.Getis, J. Mur and H. Zoller, MacMillan: New York, , pp. 53-88 .

• Spatial Mismatch, Search Effort and Urban Spatial Structure (2003).

• Some Empirical Regularities of Spatial Economies: A Relationship between Industrial Location and City Size (2003).

Other Selected Articles

• A Discrete-Time Stochastic Model of Job Matching, (2003) [with Y. Zenou], Review of Economic Dynamics, 6: 54-79.

• Predicting Housing Abandonment with the Philadelphia Neighborhood Information System”, (2002) [with A.E. Hillier, D.P. Culhane, and C.D. Tomlin],  Journal of Urban Affairs, 25(1): 91-105

• Multi-Region Contact System for Modeling STD Epidemics, (2000) [with Richard Thomas] Statistics and Medicine, 19: 2479-2491.

• Optimal Search on Spatial Paths with Recall with Recall, Part II: Computational Procedures and Examples, (2000) [with Mitchell Harwitz, et al.] Papers in Regional Science: Journal of the RSAI, 79:293-305.

• A Spatial Production Model for Analysis of the American Farming Frontier, (1999) [with Robert Douglas] forthcoming in Advances in Location Theory, Ronald Miller (ed.).

• Optimal Search on Spatial Paths with Recall with Recall, Part I: Theoretical Foundations, (1998) [with Mitchell Harwitz, et al.] Papers in Regional Science: Journal of the RSAI, 77:301-327.

• Gravity-Type Interactive Markov Models, (1997) [with Shang-Hsing Hsieh] Journal of Regional Science, 37:653-708.
  
 
• Dual Labor Markets, Urban Unemployment, and Multicentric Cities, (1997) [with Yves Zenou] Journal of Economic Theory, 76:185-214.
  
 
• On the Foundations of Land Use Theory: Discrete versus Continuous Populations , (1990) [with Yasushi Asami and M. Fujita] Regional Science and Urban Economics, 20:473-508.
  
 
• General Representation Theorems for Efficient Population Behavior (1990) [with Sven Erlander] Applied Mathematics and Computation, 36:173-217.
  
 
• Cost-Efficiency Theory of Dispersed Network Equilibria (1988) Environment and Planning A, 20:231-266.