Fuller E. Callaway Professor of Economics
Ph.D. University of Chicago

mail:  rmuth @ emory.edu
Telephone: (404) 727-8643

Areas of Interest
Spatial Economics, Ancient and Medieval Economic History

Publications

"An Inventory Policy for a Case of Lagged Delivery," (with Martin J. Beckman), Management Science, II (January 1956), 145-155.

"On the Two-Bin Inventory Policy: An Application of the Arrow-Harris-Marchak Model," (with Martin J. Beckman), Studies in the Mathematical Theory of Inventory and Production, eds., Kenneth J. Arrow, Samuel Karlin, Herbert Scarf (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1958), pp. 210-19.

"The Demand for Non-Farm-Housing, " The Demand for Durable Goods, ed., Arnold C. Harberger (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960) (Ph.D. dissertation), pp. 29-96.

Regions, Resources, and Economic Growth, (with Harvey S. Perloff, Edgar S. Dunn, Jr., and Eric E. Lampard), (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press for Resources for the Future, Inc., 1960).

"Economic Change and Rural-Urban Land Conversions," Econometricia, XXIX (January, 1961), 1-23.

"Interest Rates, Contract Terms, and the Allocation of Mortgage Credit," Journal of Finance, XVII (March, 1962), 63-80.

"The Spatial Structure of the Housing Market," Papers and Proceedings of the Regional Science Association, VII (1961), 207-20.

"A Regression Method for Real Estate Price Index Construction," (with Martin J. Bailey and Hugh O. Nourse), Journal of the American Statistical Association, 58 (December, 1963), 933-42.

"The Derived Demand Curve for a Productive Factor and the Industry Supply Curve," Oxford Economic Papers, New Series 16 (July, 1964), 221-34.

"The Stock Demand Elasticities of Non-Farming Housing: Comment," The Review of Economics and Statistics, XLVII (November, 1965) 447-49.

"The Variation of Population Density and Its Components in South Chicago," Papers and Proceedings, Regional Science Association, XI (1964), 173-83.

Federal Poverty Programs, Assessment and Recommendations, Report R-116, Institute for Defense Analyses, Economic and Political Studies Division (January, 1966).

"The Household as a Production Center, " Raymond M. Hass, ed., Science, Technology & Marketing, 1966 Fall Conference Proceedings, American Marketing Association (Chicago: American Marketing Association, 1966), pp. 152-64.

The Evaluation of Selected Change Hypotheses for Employment Among Youth, The Aged, and Minorities: A Critical Analysis, Study S-244, Institute for Defense Analyses, Economic and Political Studies Division (January, 1966).

The Structural Change Hypotheses for Employment Among Youth, The Aged, and Minorities: A Critical Analysis, Research Paper P-275, Institute for Defense Analysis, Economic and Political Studies Division (January, 1966).

Comparison of Alternative Methods of Projecting the Poverty Rate. Research Paper P-276, Institute for Defense Analyses, Economic and Political Studies Division (Division 1966).

"Slums and Poverty, " ed., Adela Adam Nevitt, The Economic Problems of Housing, Proceedings of a Conference held by the International Economic Association (London: MacMillan and Company, Ltd., 1967), pp. 12-26.

"The Distribution of Population within Urban Areas, " ed., Robert Ferber, Determinants of Investment Behavior, (New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1967), pp. 271-99.

"Household Production and Consumer Demand Functions," Econometrica, 34 (July 1966), 699-708.

"Differential Growth Among U.S. Cities, " eds., James P. Quirk and Arvid M. Zarely, Papers in Quantitative Economics (Baltimore, Maryland: The John Hopkins Press for Resources for the Future, Inc., 1968), pp. 285-333.

"Urban Residential Land and Housing Markets," Harvey S. Perloff and Lowden Wingo, Jr., eds., Issues in Urban Economics (Baltimore, Maryland: The John Hopkins Press for Resources for the Future, Inc., 1968), pp. 285-333.

"Rent," International Encyclopedia of the Social Science, Vol. 13, (The MacMillan Company & The Free Press, 1968), pp 454-61.

Effects of Constraints on Single-Unit Housing Costs (with Elliot Wetzler), Study S-322, Institute for Defense Analyses, Economic and Political Studies Division September 1968).

Cities and Housing. The Spatial Pattern of Urban Residential Land Use (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1969).

"The Urban Economy and Public Problems," Ch. 15 in John P. Crecine, ed., Financing the Metropolis: Public Policy in Urban Economics, Urban Affairs Annual Reviews, Vol. 4 (Beverly Hills, Calif,: Sage Publications, Inc., 1970), pp. 435-56.

"The Economics of Slum Housing,: Wayland D. Gardner, ed., America's Cities, Michigan Business Papers, Number 54 (1970), 22-29.

"Permanent Income, Instrumental Variables, and the Income Elasticity of Housing Demand," Working Paper EDA 12, Institute for Urban and Regional Studies, Washington University, (Processed) 1970.

"Migration: Chicken or Egg?" The Southern Economic Journal, 37 (Jan. 1970), 295-306.

"The Derived Demand for Urban Residential Land," Urban Studies, 8 (Oct. 1971), 243-54.

"A Note on the Variation of Land Values with Distance from the CBD in St. Louis," (with Kenneth Wisand, Jr.), Journal of Regional Science, 12 (Dec. 1972), 269-73.

"A Vintage Model of the Housing Stock", Papers, The Regional Science Association, 30 (1973), 141-56.

"Capital and Current Expenditures in the Production of Housing," C. Lowell Harriss, ed., Government Spending and Land Values (Madison, Wisc.: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1973), pp.65-78.

Public Housing: An Economic Evaluation (Washington: American Enterprise Institute, 1973). Reprinted in Irving H. Welfield, et. al. Perspectives on

Housing and Urban Renewal (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1974), pp.79-137.

"Moving Costs and Housing Expenditure," Journal of Urban Economics, 1 (1974), 108-25.

"Residential Segregation and Discrimination," George M. von Furstenburg, Bennett Harrison and Ann R. Horowitz, eds., Patterns of Racial Discrimination, Vol. 1 (Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Health and Company, 1974), pp. 107-19

"Black Segregation and Urban Problems," Journal of Contemporary Business, 3 (Spring, 1974), 15-28

"Economic Models of Urban Residential Land-Use," Proceedings of the 1974 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 810-13

"Another Look at Housing Programs," (a review article), Urban Affairs Quarterly, 10 (Dec. 1974), 235-40

"Housing Allowances and Homeownership," Appendix B of Abt Associates, Inc., "A Comparison of Payments Formulas for a Direct Cash Assistance Program, (processed, Jan., 1975)

Urban Economic Problems (New York: Harper and Row, 1975)

"Economic Policy and Urban Problems," Richard T. Selden, ed., Capitalism and Freedom, Problems and Prospects (Charlottesville, Virginia: University Press of Virginia, 1975), pp. 158-82

"Numerical Solution of Urban Residential Land-Use Models," Journal of Urban Economics, 2 (October, 1975), 307-32

"The Effect of Constraints on House Costs," (with Elliot Wetzler), Journal of Urban Economics, 3 (January 1976), 57-67

"Housing and Land Use," A. Lawrence Chickering, ed., The Politics of Planning (San Francisco: Institute for Contemporary Studies, 1976), pp. 175-91

"Central City Taxation for Redistributive Expenditure," Ronald E. Grieson, ed., Public and Urban Economics (Lexington, Mass: D.C. Heath and Company 1976), pp. 355-69

"Real Resources, Government Programs, and Lower-Income Housing," Resources for Housing, Proceedings of the First Annual Conference, Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco, 1975, pp. 291-307

"A Vintage Model with Housing Production," George J. Papageorgiou, ed., Mathematical Land Use Theory (Lexington, Mass: D.C. Heath and Company, 1976), pp. 249-59

"Recent Developments in the Theory of Urban Spatial Structure," M.D. Intrilligator, ed., Contributions to Economic Analysis, Vol. IIIB (Amsterdam: North Holland Publishing Co., 1977), pp. 387-97

"The Influence of Age of Dwellings on Housing Expenditures and on the Location of Households," Gregory K. Ingram, ed., Residential Location and Urban Housing Markets (Cambridge, Mass.: Ballinger Publishing Co. for the National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 1977), pp. 3-22

"Comments on Monetary/Fiscal Policies and the Cost of Housing," The Cost of Housing, Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference (San Francisco: Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco, 1978), pp. 135-39

"The Allocation of Households to Dwellings in Short-Run Equilibrium," Paper presented at Conference on Transportation and Urban Development, Northwestern University, June 1978

"Urban Decentralization," Contract Report No. 226-02 (Washington: The Urban Institute, 1977)

"The Allocation of Households to Dwellings," Journal of Regional Science, 18 (August 1978), 159-78

"Regional Differences in Central-City Housing Quality," Urban Housing Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Conference (San Francisco: Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco, 1979), pp. 73-87

"Yields on Inner-city Mortgage Loans," (Special Publications Series, Federal Home Bank Loan of San Francisco, March 1979)

"Framework for a System of Transportation/Spatial Form Research," Report No. DOT-ISC-RSPA-79-12 prepared for U.S. Department of Transportation, Control Analysis Corporation (processed)

"National Housing Policy," Peter Duignan and Alvin Rabushka, eds., The United States in the 1980s (Stanford, Calif.: The Hoover Institution, 1980), pp. 343-66

"Commerce and Housing Credit," Ch. 7 in Eugene J. McAllister, ed., Agenda for Progress, Examining Federal Spending (Washington, D.C.: The Heritage Foundation, 1980), pp. 143-57

"A Numerical Model of Urban Housing Markets with Durable Structures," J. Vernon Henderson, ed., Research in Urban Economics, Vol 2 (Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press Inc., 1982), 91-129

"Is the Housing Price Bubble About to Burst?" Papers and Proceedings of the Regional Science Association, 48 (1981), 7-18

"Condominium Conversions and the 'Housing Crisis'," M. Bruce Johnson, ed., Resolving the Housing Crisis (Cambridge, Mass.: Ballinger Publishing Co., 1982), pp. 319-36

"Effects of the U.S. Tax System on Housing Prices and Consumption," Ronald E. Grieson, ed., The Urban Economy and Housing, (Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath and Co., 1983), pp. 11-27

"Comment on Intermetropolitan Wage Differentials in the U.S.," by George E. Johnson, Jack E. Triplett, ed., The Measurement of Labor Cost (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983), pp. 330-32

"Redistribution of Income Through Regulation in Housing," Emory Law Journal, 32 (Summer, 1983), 691-720

"Energy Prices and Urban Decentralization," Anthony Downs and Katharine L. Bradbury, eds., Energy Costs, Urban Development, and Housing (Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1984), pp. 85-104

"Is More Really Better?" Society, 21 (March/April 1984), 35-39

"Comment," John M. Quigley and Daniel L. Rubenfeld, eds., American Domestic Priorities (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985) pp. 297-303

"Models of Land-Use, Housing, and Rent: An Evaluation," Journal of Regional Science, XXV (Nov., 1986), pp. 153-64

"The Supply of Mortgage Lending," Journal of Urban Economics, 19 (Feb., 1986), 88-106

"The Causes of Housing Segregation," U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Issues in Housing Discrimination, Vol. 1: Papers Presented (1986), pp. 3-13

"Expectations of House Price Changes," Papers of the Regional Science Association, 59 (1986), 45-55

"Housing Market Dynamics," Regional Science and Urban Economics, 18 (August, 1988), 345-56.

"Theoretical Issues in Housing Market Research," Allen C. Goodman and Richard F. Muth, The Economics of Housing Markets, (Chur: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1989).

"Industry Equilibrium in Transport Oriented Production," Manas Chatterji and Robert Kuenne, eds., New Frontiers in Regional Science, forthcoming.

"Supply-Side Regional Economics," Journal of Urban Economics, 29 (Jan., 1991), 63-69

"Real Land Rentals in Early Roman Egypt," Explorations in Economic History, 31 (April, 1994), 210-24

"Economic Influences on Early Israel," Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, 75 (1997), 77-92

"Economics," Allen C. Meyers and David Noel Freedman, eds., Dictionary of the Bible (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2000)

Various book reviews

Manuscripts in Progress

"Decline and Fall: A Unified Explanation"

"The Davidic Kingdom's Breakup"