2016年6月29日至7月5日,上海财经大学城市与区域科学学院/财经研究所将邀请日本东北大学的曾道智教授,在上海财经大学开设为期7天的“Research Frontiers of Spatial Economics”的课程。其实在两个月前的今天,南开大学的安虎森教授在上海财经大学做的题为“空间建模方法——以区域协调发展问题为例”的讲座,对空间经济学的基本理论模型进行了推导和介绍,就吸引了上海与外地的许多旁听者。本次暑期课程,更可谓全国独一无二,曾道智教授将用一周的时间进一步系统的讲解空间经济学的建模方法、基本理论模型,并为广大学子厘清空间经济学的前沿问题。本次暑期课程机会难得,欢迎大家积极报名参加,具体课程时间安排、上课地点请等待后续通知。
本次课程不收取学员任何费用,学员就餐费、往返差旅费、住宿费等自理。
一、曾道智教授简介
日本东北大学信息科学研究科,博士生导师。1996年在日本京都大学取得工学博士后转入经济学领域,从事空间经济学的研究,其成果涉及城市经济学、区域经济学、国际贸易、环境经济学、实验经济学等多个学科,有40多篇论文发表在这些专业的有代表性的(SSCI)学术期刊上。他曾获得日本应用区域学会的坂下奖,电子情报通信学会的论文奖,美国 Western RegionalScience Association的论文奖。现在担任学术期刊Journal of SystemsScience and Complexity, Papers in Regional Science, InterdisciplinaryInformation Sciences, Asian Journal of Management Science and Applications的编辑委员。他还是日本应用区域学会、中国区域科学学会的理事,历任浙江大学和中国科学院大学的客座教授。请从他的个人网页上了解更多情况:http://www.se.is.tohoku.ac.jp/~zeng/
二、课程简介
Given the unevenness in the spatial distribution of natural resources, climate differences, proximity to coasts and rivers, we observe a lot of agglomerations of economic activities in the world.Spatial economics brings location, distance, and land into economics to explain where economic activities locate. It has become one of the main economic fields that can be used to understand how the new map of economic activities is being redrawn.
Spatial economics is a discipline covering at least international trade and regional economics, which differ in labor mobility. International trade mainly considers the production and consumption flows when labor is immobile while reginal economics focuses on industrial location when labor is mobile across regions. Trade theory will be the first half of our course, followed by regional economics.
Let me emphasize two important features of this class. First, unlike traditional trade theory, spatial economics has more concerns in finite trade costs. While the theory of comparative advantage is based on the comparison between free trade and autarky, spatial economics discloses the economic activities in the wholeprocess of falling trade costs. Thus, spatial economics is considered to have a wide range of applications related to trade integration in the globalizing world (I will give some application examples in the lectures). Second, we learn new trade theory, which takes increasing returns as a cause of trade. This is accompanied with monopolistic competition. We also learn new economic geography, in which labor mobility interacts with increasing returns.
In addition to the production factor of labor,this class puts more weight on another factor---mobile capital. We will see that recent researches based on the footloose capital models lead to deeper and more intuitive insights on economic activities than the previous one-factor literature.
Finally,since we are going to “research frontiers” of spatial economics, this class has no textbooks. The basic frameworks are included in two important books (Fujitaand Thisse, 2013; Fujita, Krugman and Venables, 1999), which are listed in the references. Other materials are chosen from many top scientific journals.
三、课程大纲
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■Objectives and outline |
Spatial economics clarifies regional industrial agglomeration and international trade by incorporating spatial factors into traditional economics. This lecture mainly focuses on New Economic Geography and New Trade Theory, which exhibit a remarkable development in recent years. Specifically, we introduce both the basic frameworks and the research frontier of new trade theory in international economics and core-periphery models of regional economics, and then show their applications. To understand this course, you are expected to have some basic knowledge of microeconomics. Some specific aims 1. To be able to establish a general equilibrium model. 2. To master some research techniques in social science. |
■Class plan |
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We focus on the following issues on five weekdays from June 29 to July 5, 2016. 1a. Background of Spatial Economics 1b. Dixit-Stiglitz model 2a. Krugman-type one-factor models 2b. Footloose capital models 3a. Melitz model 3b. Core-Periphery model 4a. Quasi-linear utility and pro-competitive effect 4b. Re-dispersion 5a. Welfare measurement 5b. VES utility / Applications |
■Evaluation |
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Students are evaluated on the level of class participation (30%), assignments (30%) and the final report (40%). |
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■References |
Fujita, M. and Thisse, J.-F., Economics of Agglomeration, (2nd Edition), Cambridge University Press, 2013 Fujita, M., Krugman P and Venables A., The Spatial Economy, MIT Press, 1999. A lot of papers in American Economic Review, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Economic Geography, Journal of Urban Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Journal of Regional Science, etc. |
四、联系方式
上海财经大学财经研究所/城市与区域科学学院
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