Yu, Yue

This dissertation contains three essays on Urban Economics. The first two chapters study the impact of land-use regulation on economic development. Many countries have land-use regulations to preserve farmland from urban land expansion. In Chapter 1 and 2, I show that such regul…

Time-varying networks and techniques developed to study them have been used to analyze dynamic systems in social, computational, biological, and other contexts. Significant progress has been made in this area in recent years, resulting from a combination of statistical advances …