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ESD.192

Analyzing and Accounting for Regional Economic Growth

Graduate · Historical course

Spring 2009

Topics

  • Introduction
  • Historical view of regional economics
  • Neoclassical regional growth and location theories, part 1
  • Neoclassical regional growth and location theories, part 2
  • Alternative regional growth and location theories
  • Accounting for the economic base of a region
  • Influence of globalization on factor mobility
  • Deindustrialization and restructuring
  • Agglomeration and dispersal economies, part 1: Supply chains and cross-national sourcing arrangements
  • Agglomeration and dispersal economies, part 2: Globalization: development opportunity or hindrance?
  • Spatial dispersal of innovation, part 1: Theories of information technology and communication
  • Spatial dispersal of innovation, part 2: Measurement issues
  • Spatial dispersal of innovation, part 3: Measurement issues (cont.)
  • Overview of regional economic accounting structures
  • Regional and multiregional accounting structures, part 1
  • Regional and multiregional accounting structures, part 2
  • Uses of accounts: linkage analyses
  • Social accounting matrices: environmental and social multipliers
  • Price indices
  • Shift-share analyses
  • Determinants of city and regional growth
  • Regional economics and energy
  • Regional economics disasters
  • Student presentations
  • Student presentations (cont.)

Readings

  • (*) Bendavid-Val, Avrom. Regional and Local Economic Analysis for Practitioners . New York, NY: Praeger, 1991. ISBN: 9780275937515.
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  • Hirschman, Albert. The Strategy of Economic Development . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1958. ISBN: 9780300001174.
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  • (*) Isard, Walter, Iwan Asiz, Matthew Drennan, Ronald Miller, Sidney Saltzman, and Eric Thorbecke. Methods of Interregional and Regional Analysis . Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1997. ISBN: 9781859724101.
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  • (*) Malizia, Emil, and Edward Feser. Understanding Local Economic Development . New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research, 1999. ISBN: 9780882851631.
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  • Markusen, Ann. Reining in the Competition for Capital . Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2007. ISBN: 9780880992954.
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  • Miller, Ronald, and Peter Blair. Input-Output Analysis: Foundations and Extensions . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780521739023.
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  • Richardson, Harry. Regional Economics . Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1979. ISBN: 9780252007484.
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  • Dawkins, Casey. “Regional Development Theory: Conceptual Foundations, Classic Works, and Recent Developments.” Journal of Planning Literature 18, no. 2 (2003): 131-153. Note that pages 153-172 are an annotated bibliography and are not required reading.
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  • Malizia, Emil, and Edward Feser. Understanding Local Economic Development . New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research, 1999, pp. 1-48. ISBN: 9780882851631.
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  • DiPasquale, Denise, and William Wheaton. Urban Economics and Real Estate Markets . Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1995, pp. 149-181. ISBN: 9780132252447.
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  • Henderson, J. Vernon, Zmarak Shalizi, and Anthony Venables. “Geography and Development.” Journal of Economic Geography 1, no. 1 (2001): 81-105.
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  • Heilbrun, James. Urban Economics and Public Policy . 2nd ed. New York, NY: St. Martin’s, 1981, pp. 87-116. ISBN: 9780312834418.
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  • DeBresson, Chris, and Fernand Amesse. “Networks of Innovators: A Review and Introduction to the Issue.” Research Policy 20, no. 5 (1991): 363-379.
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  • Duranton, Gilles, and Diego Puga. “Diversity and Specialization in Cities: Why, Where and When Does It Matter?” In Industrial Location Economics . Edited by Philip McCann. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2004, pp. 151-186. ISBN: 9781843768470.
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  • Norton, R. D., and J. Rees. “The Product Cycle and the Spatial Decentralization of American Manufacturing.” Regional Studies 13, no. 2 (1979): 141-151.
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  • Barr, John. “The Location of Economic Activity: Central Place Theory and the Wider Urban System.” In Industrial Location Economics . Edited by Philip McCann. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2004, pp. 32-82. ISBN: 9781843768470.
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  • Johansson, Börje. “Economic Networks and Self-Organization.” In Regions Reconsidered: Economic Networks, Innovation, and Local Development in Industrialized Countries . Edited by Edward Bergman, Gunther Maier, and Frank Tödtling. New York, NY: Mansell, 1991, pp. 17-34. ISBN: 9780720121087.
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  • Markusen, Ann. “National Contexts and the Emergence of Second-Tier Cities.” In Second-Tier Cities: Rapid Growth Beyond the Metropolis . Edited by Ann R. Markusen, Yong-Sook Lee, and Sean DiGiovanna. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1999, pp. 65-94. ISBN: 9780816633746.
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  • Polenske, Karen. “Taking Advantage of a Region’s Competitive Assets: An Asset-Based Regional Economic-Development Strategy.” In Entrepreneurship, Firm Growth, and Regional Development in the New Economic Geography . Trollhätten, Sweden: Uddevalla Symposium 2000, June 15-17, pp. 527-544.
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  • Bendavid-Val, Avrom. Regional and Local Economic Analysis for Practitioners . 4th ed. New York, NY: Praeger, 1991, pp. 67-85. ISBN: 9780275937515.
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  • Heilbrun, James. Urban Economics and Public Policy . 3rd ed. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1987, pp. 153-169. ISBN: 9780312834425.
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  • Smirnov, Oleg, and Alena Smirnova. “An Assessment of the Economic Base of Distressed and Near-Distressed Counties in Appalachia: A Report to the Appalachian Regional Commission, 2000.”
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  • Harris, John, and Michael Todaro. “Migration, Unemployment, and Development: A Two-Sector Analysis.” American Economic Review 60, no. 1 (1970): 126-142.
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  • Clark, Gordon. Interregional Migration, National Policy, and Social Justice . Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Littlefield, 1983, pp. 77-102. ISBN: 9780865981249.
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  • Markusen, Ann, and Katherine Nesse. “Institutional and Political Determinants of Incentive Competition.” In Reining in the Competition for Capital . Edited by Ann R. Markusen. Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2007, pp. 1-53. ISBN: 9780880992954.
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  • Polenske, Karen, and Geoffrey Hewings. “Trade and Spatial Economic Interdependence.” Papers in Regional Science: Journal of the Regional Science Association International 83, no. 1 (2004): 269-289.
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  • Bluestone, Barry, and Bennett Harrison. The Deindustrialization of America . New York, NY: Basic Books, 1982, pp. 25-48. ISBN: 9780465015900.
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  • Castells, Manuel. The Rise of the Network Society . Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2009, chapter 2, pp. 66-67 and 92-147. ISBN: 9781405196864.
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  • Giarratani, Frank, Gene Gruver, and Randall Jackson. “Plant Location and the Advent of Slab Casting by U.S. Steel Minimills: An Observation-based Analysis.” Economic Geography 82, no. 4 (2006): 401-419.
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  • Ellram, Lisa. “Supply-Chain Management: The Industrial Organization Perspective.” International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management 21, no. 1 (1991): 13-22.
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  • Porter, Michael. “Regions and the New Economics of Competition.” In Global City-Regions: Trends, Theory, Policy . Edited by Allen J. Scott. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 139-157. ISBN: 9780198297994.
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  • Cainelli, Giulio. “Industrial Districts: Theoretical and Empirical Insights.” In Handbook of Research on Cluster Theory . Edited by Charlie Karlsson and Edward Elgar. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2008, pp. 189-202. ISBN: 9781845425166.
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  • Baldwin, Richard, and Philippe Martin. “Agglomeration and Regional Growth.” In Handbook of Urban and Regional Economics, Volume 4: Cities and Geography . Edited by J. V. Henderson and J. F. Thisse. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 2004, pp. 1-39. ISBN: 9780444509673.
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  • Gertler, Meric. “‘Being There’: Proximity, Organization, and Culture in the Development and Adoption of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies.” Economic Geography 71, no. 1 (1995): 1-26.
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  • Markusen, Ann. “Sticky Places in Slippery Space: A Typology of Industrial Districts.” Economic Geography 72, no. 3 (1996): 293-313.
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  • Johansson, Börje, and Lars Westin. “Affinities and Frictions of Trade Networks.” The Annals of Regional Science 28, no. 3 (1994): 243-261.
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  • Maggioni, Mario, Mario Nosvelli, and Trodora Erika Uberti. “Space versus Networks in the Geography of Innovation: A European Analysis.” Papers in Regional Science 86, no. 3 (2007): 471-493.
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  • Dunning, John. “Regions, Globalization, and the Knowledge Economy: The Issues Stated.” In Regions, Globalization, and the Knowledge-Based Economy . Edited by John H. Dunning. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 7-41. ISBN: 9780199250011.
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  • Lundvall, Bengt-Åke, Esben Sloth Andersen, Bent Dalum, and Björn Johnson. “National Systems of Production, Innovation, and Competence Building.” Chapter 10 in The Economic Geography of Innovation . Edited by Karen Polenske. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780521689533.
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  • Karlsson, Charlie, and Rolf Nilsson. “Agglomeration, Economics of Scale, and Dynamic Specialization in a Central Place System.” In Regional Policies and Comparative Advantage . Edited by Borje Johansson, Charlie Karlsson, and Roger R. Stough. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2002, pp. 25-48. ISBN: 9781840648348.
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  • Li, Yu, and Karen Polenske. “Measuring Dispersal Economies.” In Entrepreneurship, Spatial Industrial Clusters and Inter-Firm Networks . Trollhätten, Sweden: Universities of Trollhätten/Uddevalla, 2004, pp. 615-633.
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  • Ratanawaraha, Apiwat, and Karen Polenske. “Measuring Geographies of Innovation: A Literature Review.” Chapter 3 in The Economic Geography of Innovation . Edited by Karen Polenske. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780521865289.
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  • Reamer, Andrew, Larry Icerman, and Jan Youtie. “Chapter 3: Geographic Patterns and Impacts of Innovation.” In Technology Transfer and Commercialization: Their Role in Economic Development . Washington, DC: U.S. Economic Development Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 2003, pp. 51-110.
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  • Leven, Charles. “Regional and Interregional Accounts in Perspective.” Papers in Regional Science 13 (1964): 127-144.
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  • Polenske, Karen, and Stephen Fournier. “INTRO-IO: Introduction to Input-Output Accounting and Modeling.” In Spreadsheet Models for Urban and Regional Analysis . Edited by Richard Klosterman and Richard Brail. New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research, 1993, pp. 205-228. ISBN: 9780882851426.
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  • Miller, Ronald. “Regional and Interregional Input-Output Analysis.” In Methods of Interregional and Regional Analysis . Edited by Walter Isard, Iwan Aziz, Matthew Drennan, Ronald Miller, Sidney Saltzman, and Erik Thorbecke. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1997, pp. 41-133. ISBN: 9781859724101.
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  • Bendavid-Val, Avrom. Regional and Local Economic Analysis for Practitioners . 4th ed. New York, NY: Praeger, 1991, pp. 41-52. ISBN: 9780275937515.
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  • Polenske, Karen. “Leontief’s Spatial Economic Analyses.” Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 6, no. 3 (1995): 309-318.
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  • Oosterhaven, Jan, and Karen Polenske. “Modern Regional Input-Output and Impact Analysis.” Chapter 21 in Handbook of Regional Growth and Development Theories . Edited by Roberta Capello and Peter Nijkamp. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2009. ISBN: 9781847205063.
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  • Hirschman, Albert. The Strategy of Economic Development . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1958, pp. 98-119. ISBN: 9780300001174.
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  • Polenske, Karen, and Petros Sivitanides. “Linkages in the Construction Sector.” The Annals of Regional Science 24, no. 2 (1990): 147-161.
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  • Thorbecke, Erik. “Social Accounting Matrices and Social Accounting Analysis.” In Methods of Interregional and Regional Analysis . Edited by Walter Isard, Iwan Aziz, Matthew Drennan, Ronald Miller, Sidney Saltzman, and Erik Thorbecke. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1997, pp. 281-331. ISBN: 9781859724101.
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  • Rich, Karl, Alex Winter-Nelson, and Gerald Nelson. “Political Feasibility of Structural Adjustment in Africa: An Application of SAMs Mixed Multipliers.” World Development 25, no. 12 (1997): 2105-2114.
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  • Peskin, Henry, and Ernst Lutz. “A Survey of Resource and Environmental Accounting in Industrialized Countries.” Environment Working Paper, no. 37. Washington, DC: The World Bank, 1990, pp. 1-26.
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  • Kendrick, John. “Expanded Imputed Values in the National Income and Product Accounts.” Review of Income and Wealth 25, no. 4 (1979): 349-363.
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  • Wonnacott, Thomas, and Ronald Wonnacott. Introductory Statistics for Business and Economics . 4th ed. New York, NY: Wiley, 1990, pp. 664-677. ISBN: 9780471527169.
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  • Wynne, Mark, and Fiona Sigalla. “The Consumer Price Index.” Economic Review: Federal Reserve Board of Dallas , Summer 1994, 1-22.
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  • Hausman, Jerry. “New Products and Price Indexes.” NBER Reporter , Fall 1998, 10-12.
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  • Stevens, Benjamin, and Craig Moore. “A Critical Review of the Literature on Shift-Share as a Forecasting Technique.” Journal of Regional Science 20, no. 4 (1980): 419-437.
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  • Graham, Daniel, and Nigel Spence. “Manufacturing Employment Change, Output Demand, and Labor Productivity in the Regions of Britain.” International Regional Science Review 23, no. 2 (2000): 172-200.
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  • Glaeser, Edward, José A. Sheinkman, and Andrei Shleifer. “Economic Growth in a Cross-Section of Cities.” Journal of Monetary Economics 36 (1995): 117-144.
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  • Fisher-Vanden, Karen, Gary Jefferson, H. Liu, and Q. Tao. “What is Driving China’s Decline in Energy Intensity?” Resource and Energy Economics 26, no. 1 (2004): 77-97.
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  • Polenske, Karen, and Francis McMichael. “A Chinese Cokemaking Process-Flow Model for Energy and Environmental Analyses.” Energy Policy 30, no. 10 (2002): 865-883.
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  • Okuyama, Yasuhide, J. D. Hewings, and M. Sonis. “Measuring Economic Impacts of Disasters: Interregional Input-Output Analysis Using Sequential Interindustry Model.” In Modeling Spatial and Economic Impacts of Disasters . Edited by Yasuhide Okuyama and Stephanie Chang. New York, NY: Springer-Verlag, 2004, pp. 77-101. ISBN: 9783540214496.
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  • Horwich, George. “Economic Lessons of the Kobe Earthquake.” Economic Development and Cultural Change 48, no. 3 (2000): 521-542.
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