Urban Economics Syllabus.pdfVIP

Urban Economics Syllabus Lecturer: Dr. Shihe Fu Prerequisites: Advanced Mircoeconomics; Dynamic optimaization; Econometrics Grading: Your final grade consists of five parts: problem sets, presentation, a referee report, a term paper, and a final take-home exam. Each accounts for 20%. There is no unified, standard graduate textbook for this course. Therefore, we will draw materials from chapters of different books and papers from many journals. I have provided a tentative reading list below. The list will be updated from time to time. You must read at least one required reading material (marked with a * in the beginning of each item) for each topic. IMPORTANT!!! All the students should go to http :///mailman/listinfo/nep-ure and subscribe the Urban and Real Estate working paper series. You will receive new working papers via email regularly. This service is free of charge. Each student is required to pick one working paper and write a referee report. IMPORTANT!! For those who will choose urban economics as your primary research field, you should visit /education/fellowships.asp or http :///ch/index.asp and get to know the Lincoln Institute’s China Program. You are strongly encouraged to apply for the Lincoln graduate research fellowship next year. IMPORTANT! You are required to attend the Friday-afternoon seminars organized by RIEM if the topics are related to urban, regional, and real estate issues. Tentative Topi cs 1: Introduction: space (location) in economics * Mills, E., 2000, A thematic history of urban economic analysis, Brookings-Wharton Pap ers on Urban Aff airs, 1-51. *Fujita, M., Thisse, J., 2002, Economics of Agglomeration, Chapter 2: The breakdown of the price mechanism in a spatial economy. Arnott, R., Riley, J., 1977, Asymmetrical production possibilities,