The lecture deals with the following topics:
- Geography, trade, and development
- Geography and economic theory
- Core models of economic geography and empirical evidence
- Agglomeration, home market effets, and spatial wages
- Applications and extensions
and is based on
- Brakman, Steven, Harry Garretsen, and Charles van Marrewijk (2009). The New Introduction to Geographical Economics, 2nd Edition, Cambridge Universtiy Press.
Additional literature will be given in the lecture.