Regional Development

Recommended Prerequisites

Macroeconomics and Microeconomics at the undergraduate level.

Teaching Methods

Exposition and active discussion of the syllabus main topics. Students are requested to write a small paper on one Portuguese region at NUTS III level, or on one Portuguese municipality.

Learning Outcomes

The main purpose of this course is to discuss how regional development is a peculiar matter and different from the economic development issues at the national level. A deeper acknowledge of the Portuguese regional panorama is also a relevant quest. The main competency aimed to is to develop the ability of making a social and economic diagnosis of a specific region and proposing consistent policies.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Regional science, spatial economics, their denominations and scope;

2. How are regions different from nations?

3. The spatial distribution of economic activity;

4. The regional input-output models;

5. The Portuguese regions and their problems.

Head Lecturer(s)

Pedro Miguel Girão Nogueira Ramos

Assessment Methods

Final Assessment
Exam: 100.0%

Continuous assessment
Participação nas aulas: 40.0%
Continuous assessment - individual work (60%), participation in class (40%). Final exam (100%) is only admitted in exceptional cases .: 60.0%

Bibliography

KRUGMAN, Paul R. — The new economic geography, now middle-aged. In Regional Studies [Em linha]. Vol.45, nº 1 (2011). [acesso via b-on]

MCCANN, Philip — Urban and regional economics. 2nd ed.. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013. [Ed. de 2004: BP 711.2 MCC]

OVERMAN, Henry G. ; RICE, Patricia ; VENABLES, Anthony J. — Economic linkages across space. In Regional Studies [Em linha]. Vol. 44, nº 1 (2010). [acesso via b-on]

RAMOS, Pedro Miguel Girão Nogueira — Efeitos inter-regionais de natureza pecuniária : que importância em Portugal?. In DESAFIOS emergentes para o desenvolvimento regional. Coord. José Manuel Viegas, Tomaz Ponce Dentinho. Cascais : Princípia, 2010. [BP 711.2 DES]

RAMOS, Pedro Miguel Girão Nogueira ; SARGENTO, Ana Lúcia Marto  — Modelos regionais de input-output. In COMPÊNDIO de economia regional. Coord. José da Silva Costa, Peter Nijkamp, Tomáz Ponce Dentinho. Cascais : Princípia, 2011. Vol. 2. [BP 711.2 COM]