Course description:
Economic activities are unevenly distributed geographically. Why? This is the main question of this course which presents the most influential studies in economics analyzing the location choices of firms and individuals as well as public policies (taxation, environmental norms) and institutions (democratization, corruption) that shape the economic geography of cities, regions and nations.
Course structure:
- Location choices: This lecture presents the different models in the field explaining the mobility of capital, people and goods.
- Public Policies: Here we survey theoretical and empirical studies that analyze how public policies affect location choices of footloose capital and entrepreneurs.
- Quantitative models: This lecture presents quantitative models in economic geography.
References
Baldwin R, Forslid R, Martin P, Ottaviano G, F Robert-Nicoud, 2003. Economic Geography and Public Policy, Princeton U Press.
Combes P-Ph, Mayer T, Thisse J-F, Economic Geography: The Integration of Regions and Nations. Princeton U Press.
Duranton G, Vernon Henderson, William Strange, 2014. Handbook of Urban and Regional Economics.
Fujita, Krugman and Venables, 1999, The Spatial Economy, MIT press
- Enseignant: Fabien Candau