Llicenciatura en Administració i Direcció d'Empreses (3323)
Llicenciatura en Economia (3322)
Economia Regional(11868)
Regional economics is about explaining the variation in living standards in space within a country. The course will start with the question of what explains regional production structures; on the theoretical side, this involves dealing with both traditional and modern international trade theory; on the empirical side, this involves dealing with empirical models with increasing returns and externalities. After dealing with regional production structures, the course will discuss patterns of migration: How do people decide where to migrate and what are the consequences of regional migration for regional production structures and vice versa? The third topic in the course is regional economic growth: What determines regional economic growth rates and, in particular, are the European and US regions converging in living standards or diverging in living standards? Finally, the course will discuss some topics in political economy: Are regional differences in institutions and policy a significant determinant of regional development? And if so, how are they determined?
Bibliografia
CICCONE, Antonio; HALL, Robert E. "Productivity and the Density of Economic Activity". American Economic Review, 86. 1996. Pąg. 54-70.
CICCONE, Antonio. "Agglomeration Effects in Europe". Berkeley: University of California, 1998. Mimeographed.
FUJITA, Masahisa. "On the Self-Organization and Evolution of Economic Geography". Japanese Economic Review, 47. Marē de 1996. Pąg. 34-61.
HENDERSON, Vernon. "Ways to Think about Urban Concentration: Neoclassical Urban Systems versus the New Economic Geography". International Regional Science Review, 19. 1996. Pąg. 31-36.
KRUGMAN, Paul. "Increasing Returns and Economic Geography". Journal of Political Economy, 99. 1996. Pąg. 483-499.
LORENZ, Detlef. "Economic Geography and the Political Economy of Regionalization: The Example of Western Europe". American Economic Review, 82. 1992. Pąg. 84-87.