The Economic Case for Regional Cooperation in Greater New York City Michael Lahr, Associate Research Professor and Associate Director of Rutgers Economic Advisory Service at the Center for Urban Policy Research at Rutgers University. Address: 33 Livingston Avenue, Suite 400 New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1982 Lahr@rci.rutgers.edu Andrew Haughwout Research Officer, Business Conditions Function of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Co-editor of the Journal of Regional Science. Address: 33 Liberty Street New York, NY 10045 Andrew.Haughwout@ny.frb.org The views and opinions presented here are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent positions of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York or the Federal Reserve System.