REGIONAL ECONOMICS AND TERRITORIAL COMPETITIVENESS

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

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)