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Syllabus
Announcement
1. Due date of Homework 3 is postponed to March
27.
2. Midterm is postponed to April 3.
3. Study guide for midterm is already posted; see
below.
4. Final exam is on 5/17 Saturday,
1330-1530, at BlegH 155.
5. Study guide for final is already posted;
see below.
Topic List (*means supplemental readings, others are required)
Topic 1: Introduction
Section C of Ch. 1 and Section D of Ch. 3.
Definitions
of Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas
*Evidence
on the Nature and Sources of Agglomeration Economies (Rosenthal and
Strange, 2003)
Topic 2: Theory of
Firm Location
Firm Location
Model
Inside the Cities
Topic 3: Monocentric City Model
Density
Gradient
Chapter 6
Note on
Monocentric City Model (Part 1)
Note on
Monocentric City Model (Part 2)
A
Case of Cobb-Douglas Utility
Topic 4: Urban Sprawl
Edward L. Glaeser and
Matthew E. Kahn (2004), “Sprawl and
Urban Growth,” (in Handbook of Urban and Regaional
Economics, Vol 4)
Lecture Slides
Topic 5: Zoning (plus
a digression on instrument variables)
Lecture
notes
*Section D of Chapter
6
Topic 6: Segregation
and Peer Group Effect
Lecture notes
*David
M. Cutler; Edward L. Glaeser; Jacob L. Vigdor “The Rise and Decline
of the American Ghetto,” The Journal of Political Economy,
Vol. 107, No. 3. (Jun., 1999), pp. 455-506
Topic 7: Local
Government
Lecture
notes
Chapter 13
Congestion
Cities in Regional Economics/Economic Geography
Topic 8: Size
Distribution of Cities, Central
Place Theory, and the NAS Rule.
Chapter 4
Lecture
Slides 1
Lecture
Slides 2
Hsu (2008), Central Place Theory
and Zipf’s Law
*Mori et al. (2007),
The
Number-Average Size Rule: a new empirical relationship between industrial
location and city size," Journal of Regional Science
Topic 9: Location of
Industries
Lecture
Slides
Holmes, T. J., and J. Stevens (2004), ‘Spatial
Distribution of Economic Activities in North America,’ (in Handbook of Urban and Regaional
Economics, Vol 4)
Topic 10: Evaluation
of Theories
Lecture
Slides
Davis, D. R., and D. E.
Weinstein (2002), ‘Bones,
Bombs, and Break Points: The Geography of Economic Activities,’
American Economics Review, 92 (5): 1269-1289.
Homework Assignments
Homework 1 Minneapolis/St.
Paul Density Gradient Problem
Homework 1 Solution
Homework 2
Homework 2 Solution
Homework 3 Minneapolis
Dissimilarity Index calculation
Homework 3 Solution
Homework 4
Homework 4 Solution
Homework 5 (due 5/6,
Tuesday)
Exam
Study Guide
for Midterm
Study
Guide for Final
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