Llicenciatura en Cičncies Polķtiques i de l'Administració (3334)
Economia Regional i Urbana(12094)
TOPICS
Part 1. Economic Forces in the Development of Cities and Regions
1.1. Reasons for development of cities and regions
1.1.1. Comparative advantage.
1.1.2. Scale economies in transportation and production.
1.1.3. Demand externalities and geografic concentration, the case of the U.S. manufacturing belt.
1.1.4. Aglometation economies.
1.1.4.1. Localization vs. urbanization economies.
1.1.4.2. Sources of industry localization: labor market pooling, agglomeration in inputs, technologicals spillover.
1.1.4.3. Localization and trade, implications for integration and breaking up of the nations.
1.1.4.4. Some empirical evidence of agglomeration economies.
1.2. Location decisions of industrial and commercial firms.
1.3. Central place theory and a regional system of cities.
1.4. Urban economic growth.
Part 2. Functioning of Regional Economies
2.1. Methods of analysis of regional a output, income and employment levels
2.1.1. Impact analysis: direct and induced effects.
2.1.2. Regional multiplier analysis.
2.1.3. Input-output aproach to medelling the regional economy.
2.2. Reginal growth disparities.
2.2.1. Suplly.side influence on growth.
2.2.2. Demand-side determination of growth disparities.
2.3. Interregional trade and migration.
2.4. Regional empliyment growth and unemplyment rate disparities.
Part 3. Some Political Aspects of Regional and National Economies.
3.1. The Breakup and Integration of Nations.
3.2. Regional policy instruments.
3.3. Regional policy and the European Community.
Bibliography
ARMSTRONG, H.; TAYLOR, J. Regional Economics and Policy. Harvester Wheatsheaf: 1993.
BOLTON, P. ; ROLAND, G. "The Breakup of Nations: A Political Economy Analysis". Quartely Jorunal of Economics, 112 (4). 1997. Pąg. 1057-90.
KRUGMAN, P. Geography and Trade. The MIT Press, 1991.
O’SULLIVAN, A. Urban Economics. Irwin, Inc., 1993. Chapters 1-6.
Additional reading
CICCONE, A.; HALL, R. E. "Productivity and the Density of Economic Activity". American Economic Review, 96. 1996.. Pąg. 54-70.
FUJITA, M. "On the Self-Organization and Evolution of Economic Geography". Japanese Economic Review, 47. March de 1996. pąg. 34-61.
HENDERSON, V. "Ways to Think about urban Concentration: Neoclassical Urban Systems versus the New Economic Geography". International Regional Science Review, 19. 1996. Pąg. 31-36.
KRUGMAN, P. "Increasing Returns and Economic Geography". Journal of Political Economy, 99. 1996. Pąg. 483-499.