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Advanced Geographical Economics 7,5 hp

Undervisningen bedrivs på engelska.

Kursinnehåll

The objective of the course is to give students knowledge about location aspects of innovation and trade, on the basis of various forms of scale economies as well as proximity and network externalities. The course will provide the student with a capacity to critically analyse economic problems relating to location, specialisation and trade for regions of different types. It will establish a competence in penetrating the reasons for how regions specialise and how they develop in a perspective of a global economy.

Important elements of the course are the following:
  • Static and dynamic comparative advantages, location advantages and spatial externalities.
  • Clusters and Regional Systems of Innovation.
  • Different types of equilibria and path dependence.
  • Finding equilibria of non-linear models by numerical simulation.
  • Stability conditions of spatial equilibria.

Connection to Research and Practice
The content of the course is tightly linked to research in the field of geographical economics and New Economic Geography (NEG). This is evidenced by the course literature wich includes a book closely related to research as well as research articles from reputable international scientific journals. The course content is also close to the research performed at the research center CEnSE (Center for Entrepreneurship and Spatial Economics) at JIBS.
In the assignments the students use research models and methods to investigate phenomena related to economic geography as well as drawing conclusions about published research and what we can learn from it.
The content of the course is relevant for policy making. The students will appreciate how policy can be used to influence the development of society, and how theory and empirical work can be used to guide policy.

Förkunskapskrav

Bachelor’s degree in Economics

Utbildningsnivå: Avancerad nivå
Kurskod/Ladokkod: JAGR24
Kursen ges vid: Jönköping International Business School

Tidigare och pågående kurstillfällen

Typ av Kurs
Programkurs
Studieform
Campus
Termin
Våren 2021: vecka 03 - vecka 12
Studietakt
50%
Undervisningsspråk
Engelska
Ort
Jönköping
Kurstid
Dag
Examinator
Johan Klaesson
Kursansvarig
Johan Klaesson
Gäller enbart studenter utanför EU/EES/Schweiz: Studieavgift
15000kr
Kursplan
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Anmälningskod
HJ-J1012
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