Programa

Urban and Regional Economics

Licenciatura Bolonha em Economia

Licenciatura Bolonha em Finanças

Licenciatura Bolonha em Matemática Aplicada à Economia e à Gestão

Licenciatura Bolonha em Gestão

Licenciatura Bolonha em Economia

Programa

1.Introduction and course overview 2.Industrial Location and the Spatial Distribution of Activities 2.1.Firm location theories 2.2.Industrial clustering 2.3.Agglomeration economies 3.The Spatial Structure of the Urban and Regional Economy 3.1.Land-rent gradient models 3.2.Urban hierarchies and the central-place theory 3.3.The rank-size rule 4.Spatial Data Analysis using GeoDa 4.1.Measuring and visualizing spatial concentration and dispersion 4.2.Measuring and visualizing regional specialisation and diversification 4.3.Measuring and visualizing regional inequalities and convergence 5.Selected Topics in Urban and Regional Policy