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Summary Regional and Urban Economics - Complete Lecture Notes | VU | 2023/2024

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Master Regional and Urban Economics with these comprehensive lecture notes covering spatial economics, urban land use, regional policies, and economic growth models. Key Topics Covered: Location Choice & Spatial Economics: Weber's industrial location triangle, Palander's market area determination, and Hotelling's linear beach model of spatial competition. Agglomeration & Regional Concentration: Localization vs. urbanization economies, Location-Quotient (LQ), Gini specialization coefficient, Hirschmann-Herfindahl index, and Krugman core-periphery models. Urban Economics & Land Rents: David Ricardo's "left-over principle", monocentric city models, linear and convex bid-rent functions, and urban sub-center formation. Regional Evaluation Models: Economic base models, Keynesian regional multipliers, and Leontief Input-Output (I-O) matrix analysis. Labour Markets & Migration: Neoclassical labor demand/supply models, wage rigidity, spatial wage differentials, and regional factor allocation (Edgeworth-Bowley box and contract curves). Trade & Economic Growth: Gravity models of trade, institutional/cultural distance factors, Solow-Swan neoclassical growth model, conditional convergence, and Endogenous Growth Theory.


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