Analyzing and Accounting for Regional Economic Growth
Lecture Notes
Notes are available for selected lectures below.
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Introduction |
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Historical view of regional economics |
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Regional economic theories |
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Neoclassical regional growth and location theories, part 1 |
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Neoclassical regional growth and location theories, part 2 |
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Alternative regional growth and location theories |
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Accounting for the economic base of a region |
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Influence of globalization on factor mobility |
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Deindustrialization and restructuring |
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Agglomeration and dispersal economies, part 1: Supply chains and cross-national sourcing arrangements Industry diversification and concentration: a case study of chemical industry in Appalachia (Slides developed by Xin Li. Used with permission.) |
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Agglomeration and dispersal economies, part 2: Globalization: development opportunity or hindrance? |
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Spatial dispersal of innovation, part 1: Theories of information technology and communication |
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Spatial dispersal of innovation, part 2: Measurement issues |
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Spatial dispersal of innovation, part 3: Measurement issues (cont.) |
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Regional, interregional, and multiregional input-output accounts |
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Overview of regional economic accounting structures |
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Regional and multiregional accounting structures, part 1 |
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Regional and multiregional accounting structures, part 2 (Slides developed by Xin Li. Used with permission.) |
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Uses of accounts: linkage analyses (Based on a presentation by Anne Schwieger. Used with permission.) |
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Social accounting matrices: environmental and social multipliers |
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Accounting issues and concepts: boundaries (Guest lecture by Weifeng Li. Used with permission.) Imputations and underground economy |
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20 |
Price indices |
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Analytics of regional economics |
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Shift-share analyses |
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Determinants of city and regional growth |
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Regional economics and energy |
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Regional economics disasters |
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Assignments
The problem sets were developed by Prof. Polenske and course TA Weifeng Li.
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PROBLEM SETS |
SUPPORTING FILES |
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Problem set 1 (PDF) |
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Problem set 2 (PDF) |
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Problem set 3 (PDF) |
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Problem set 4 (PDF) |
(XLS) How to invert a matrix (PDF) |
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Problem set 5 (PDF) |
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Reference Material
Suggestions for writers (PDF)
Projects
This section includes selected examples of pro/con presentations and the final project (associated with problem set 5). All materials are courtesy of the student authors and are used with permission.
Pro/Con Presentations
These presentations were given by teams of two students and focused on a particular reading or set of readings.
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PRESENTATIONS |
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Instructions (PDF) |
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Example 1 (PDF) |
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Example 2 (PDF) |
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Example 3 (PDF) |
Final Project
The Merrimack Valley: Challenges, Assets, and Potential for Growth
Presentation (PDF)
Paper (PDF - 1.5MB)