CRP 8010 - [Advanced Seminar in Urban and Regional Theory II (Location Theory)]

Fall, Spring. Next Offered: 2020-2021. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

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This course surveys traditional and more recent explanations of the location, aggregation, and fragmentation of economic activities in space under different assumptions about the mobility of factors, transportation (or more generally, transaction) costs, economies of scale, and the competitiveness of markets. The relationship between theories of trade and location will be considered, as will the effects on spatial economies of policy interventions.