Urban and Regional Economics

Code:

1EC402

Acronym:

ERU

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Economics

Instance: 2023/2024 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Agrupamento Científico de Economia
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in Economics

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LECO	57	Bologna Syllabus since 2012	3	-	3	42	81

Teaching language

Portuguese and english

Objectives

Regional and Urban Economics aims to introduce space in economic analysis. It will give students new concepts and tools that allow them to deal with space in economic analysis, and to understand the role of cities and regions in the economy.

 

Learning outcomes and competences

Students will learn core theoretical concepts and methods of regional and urban analysis, enabling them to understand and make nainformed spatial reading ofthe economic reality.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. INTRODUCTION
1.1. Space and economic theory
1.2. The space of analysis: the concepts
2. METHODS AND TECHNIQUES OF SPATIAL ANALYSIS
2.1 Univariate spatial data analysis techniques
2.2 Multivariate spatial data analysis techniques
3. LOCATION THEORY
3.1. Supply
3.2. Demand
3.3. Demand and Supply
4. URBAN SYSTEMS
4.1. Concept of city
4.2. Urbanization patterns
4.3. The determinants of cities
4.4. Urban hierarchy
5. TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT AND REGIONAL AND URBAN POLICIES
5.1. Regional policy
5.2. Urban policy
5.3. Cohesion policy in the EU

Mandatory literature

José da Silva Costa, Peter Nijkamp, Tomaz Ponce Dentinho (coord.); Compêndio de economia regional, Principia, 2009. ISBN: (E/k5/ 359(6))
Philip McCann; Modern urban and regional economics. ISBN: 978-0-19-958200-6

Complementary Bibliography

A. O’Sullivan; Urban Economics, Irwin, Chicago, 2007. ISBN: 978-0-07-298476-7(13)
Brakman, S., H. Garretsen, C. van Marrewijk; The new introduction to geographical economics, Cambridge University Press, 2009. ISBN: 978-0-521-87532-5
E.M. Hoover, F. Giarratani; An Introduction to Regional Economics, West Virginia University, 1999

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical and pratical lessons.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	60,00
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	40,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	42,00
Frequência das aulas	20,00
Trabalho de investigação	19,00
Total:	81,00

Eligibility for exams

Distributed evaluation with final exam requires students to complete a group work and a comprehensive exam.
To proceed with the distributed evaluation, each student must reach a minimum grade of 6.0 points in each component. Otherwise, students must take a final exam, covering the whole course. Missing any of the components results in 0 points in that component.

 

Calculation formula of final grade

In the distributed evaluation:  exam (ex) (60%) + group work (gw) (40%).
Final grade=Max (0.6*ex+0.4*gw; ex)
Otherwise, students may take a final exam, representing 100% of the final grade.

 

Classification improvement

Final exam.