Urban and Regional Economics (0-6 cr)

Code:
ECON-L6000
Field:
Urban Economics
Targets:
Research Master's students PhD students
Organiser:
Aalto University
Instructor:
Prottoy Akbar
Period:
Period 5
Format:
Lecture
Method:
Contact teaching
Venue:
Otaniemi campus
Enrollment:

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Aalto, Hanken and UH economics students can enroll through their home university’s SISU. Further instructions are available on the How to enroll? page, also for students from other universities.

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This doctoral field course will include such topics as:

  • Spatial equilibrium within and across cities.
  • Quantitative spatial equilibrium models.
  • Transportation economics.
  • Migration and urbanization.
  • Consumer cities, amenities and agglomeration.
  • Urban segregation and the unequal access to opportunities.
  • Zoning, land use regulations, and slums.
  • Regional economics and the environment.
  • Long run urban growth

This course will introduce students to the foundational work in urban and regional economics, as well as an overview of the more recent work in these fields. By the end of this course, students should be well acquainted with the tools and methods used to study explicitly spatial problems in the economic geography of regional and urban economics. They should also understand the key questions that drive these fields, and recognize the academic research done at the frontier of these fields.