ECONOMIA REGIONALE

Knowledge and understanding: The course aims at presenting the modern economic models about regional economics. The course aims to provide the main tools for analyzing spatial economics with reference to the economic theory as well as the economic policies.

Applying knowledge and understanding: The student has to be able to apply the theoretical knowledge acquired to analyse specific statistics data, official documents and case studies. He/She has to understand economic phenomena that can promote regional economic processes of economic systems, in different social, geographical, technological and demographic conditions.

Making judgements: the student will be able to understand the evolution of theoretical approaches in regional economics through the evolution of the concept of space: from physical space, which characterizes location theory, to uniform space (typical of neoclassical and Keynesian approaches ) to diversified-relational space (embedded in local districts and milieu approaches, as well as in the theory of learning regions) to diversified stylised space (as exemplified by the new economic geography and dynamic neoclassical approaches).

Communication skills: during the course the student has to improve and develop the knowledge of a technical and economic language to use in an appropriate way as an useful instrument of communication.

Learning skills: the student will be able to understand which theoretical concept is appropriate to deal with specific cases. Verification of the learning skills is carried out both during the course (lectures, exercises) and in the final written test.

* the main topics mandatory to succeed in the exam