REGIONAL ECONOMICS AND TERRITORIAL COMPETITIVENESS
Academic Year 2018/2019 - 1° Year
Teaching Staff: Vincenzo Asero
Credit Value: 6
Scientific field: SECS-P/01 - Economics
Taught classes: 36 hours
Term / Semester: 1°
Credit Value: 6
Scientific field: SECS-P/01 - Economics
Taught classes: 36 hours
Term / Semester: 1°
Detailed Course Content
REGIONAL ECONOMICS AND LOCATION THEORY
• The location of economic activities in space • The location decision of firms • The identification of market areas for producers • Regional growth theories and models (Keynesian and neoclassical) • Local development theories and approaches • Partnerships among enterprises and the business network contracts
LOCAL DEVELOPMENT AND TERRITORIAL COMPETITIVENESS
• Regional policy instruments and methods • The role of European Union in local development and the SMEs sector • EU’s Structural Funds • The programming approach to EU regional policy • The evaluation of regional policy
Textbook Information
REGIONAL ECONOMICS AND LOCATION THEORY
- Capello R. , Regional Economics, Routledge, 2007 - pp. 1-38
- Robert J. Stimson, Roger R. Stough, Brian H. Roberts, Regional Economic Development, Springer, 2006 - chapters 1-2 (pp. 1-104)
- Asero V., Skonieczny S., Formal Networks among Tourism Enterprises: Peculiarities of the Italian Solution. Eastern European Business and Economics Journal Vol.3, No. 1, (2017): 48-66
LOCAL DEVELOPMENT AND TERRITORIAL COMPETITIVENESS
- Capello R., Regional Economics, Routledge, 2007 - pp. 157-205
- Armstrong H., Taylor J., Regional Economics and Policy, Blackwell Publishing, 2000 - chapters 9-10-11-13 (pp. 232-335 and pp. 362-401)