Analyzing and Accounting for Regional Economic Growth

Calendar

SES #	TOPICS	KEY DATES
1	Introduction
2	Historical view of regional economics
Regional economic theories
3	Neoclassical regional growth and location theories, part 1
4	Neoclassical regional growth and location theories, part 2
5	Alternative regional growth and location theories
6	Accounting for the economic base of a region
7	Influence of globalization on factor mobility	Problem set 1 due
8	Deindustrialization and restructuring
9	Agglomeration and dispersal economies, part 1: Supply chains and cross-national sourcing arrangements
10	Agglomeration and dispersal economies, part 2: Globalization: development opportunity or hindrance?
11	Spatial dispersal of innovation, part 1: Theories of information technology and communication
12	Spatial dispersal of innovation, part 2: Measurement issues
13	Spatial dispersal of innovation, part 3: Measurement issues (cont.)	Problem set 2 due
Regional, interregional, and multiregional input-output accounts
14	Overview of regional economic accounting structures
15	Regional and multiregional accounting structures, part 1
16	Regional and multiregional accounting structures, part 2
17	Uses of accounts: linkage analyses
18	Social accounting matrices: environmental and social multipliers	Problem set 3 due
19	Accounting issues and concepts: boundaries Imputations and underground economy
20	Price indices
Analytics of regional economics
21	Shift-share analyses
22	Determinants of city and regional growth	Problem set 4 due
23	Regional economics and energy
24	Regional economics disasters
25	Student presentations	Problem set 5 due
26	Student presentations (cont.)