Dr. Barr is a Professor at Rutgers University-Newark in the Department of Economics, and an affiliated faculty member with the Global Urban Systems Ph.D. program. His research interests include urban economics, and agent-based computational economics. Dr. Barr serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, the Eastern Economic Journal and the Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination. He is the author of Building the Skyline: The Birth and Growth of Manhattan's Skyscrapers (Oxford U. Press, 2016). He writes the Skynomics Blog, a blog about skyscrapers, cities, and economics.
VoxEU Column
Exciting, boring, and non-existent skylines: Vertical building gaps in global perspective
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- Frontiers of economic research
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Cities without skylines: Worldwide building-height gaps, their determinants, and their implications
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- Environment 
- Frontiers of economic research
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The economics of skyscrapers: A synthesis
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- Frontiers of economic research