課程資訊
課程名稱
 空間經濟學
Spatial Economics 
開課學期
 111-2 
授課對象
 社會科學院  經濟學系  
授課教師
 許文泰 
課號
 ECON5195 
課程識別碼
 323EU3100 
班次
  
學分
 3.0 
全/半年
 半年 
必/選修
 選修 
上課時間
 星期三6,7,8(13:20~16:20) 
上課地點
 社科402 
備註
 本課程以英語授課。
限學士班三年級以上 或 限碩士班以上 或 限博士班
總人數上限：30人 
  
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課程概述

This course introduces the fundamental theories of how space matters for economic activities. It introduces the fundamental theories of urban and regional economics and covers the newest development in quantitative spatial economics. See below for the list of topics covered. 

課程目標
 There will be lecture slides for all the topics. In the following list, *denotes essential readings, and those without * means they are supplementary. Our materials focus on fundamental theories in urban and regional economics, as well as quantitative spatial economics. We will also review some important development in the empirical literature. Most of the materials are based on important research papers. We will use a few chapters from an undergraduate textbook for urban economics -- Brueckner, Jan (2011), Lectures on Urban Economics, MIT Press.

Topic 1: Introduction to “Cities”
• *Chapter 1, Brueckner’s textbook
• Rozenfeld, Hernan, Diego Rybski, Xavier Gabaix and Hernan Makse. 2011. “The area and
population of cities: New insights from a different perspective on cities,” American Economic
Review 101(5): 2205-2225.

Topic 2: Internal Structure of A City
• *Chapters 2 and 3, Brueckner’s textbook
• R.E. Lucas Jr., E. Rossi-Hansberg (2002), “On the internal structure of cities,” Econometrica,
70(4), pp. 1445-1476.

Topic 3: Urban Transportation
• *Notes
• *Duranton, Gilles, and Matthew A. Turner. (2011). “The fundamental law of road congestion:
Evidence from US cities,” American Economic Review 101(6): 2616-52.
• *Hsu, W. T., & Zhang, H. (2014). “The fundamental law of highway congestion revisited:
Evidence from national expressways in Japan,” Journal of Urban Economics, 81, 65-76.

Topic 4: Local Public Finance; Henry George Theorem
• *Notes
• *Arnott and Stiglitz (1979)

Topic 5: System of Cities; Central Place Theory
• *Salop, Steven C. (1979), “Monopolistic competition with outside goods,” The Bell Journal of Economics: 141-156.
• *Hsu, W.-T., T. J. Holmes and F. Morgan (2014), "Optimal City Hierarchy: A Dynamic Programming Approach to Central Place Theory," Journal of Economic Theory, 154, pp. 245- 273.
• *Hsu, W.-T. (2012), "Central place theory and city size distribution," Economic Journal, 122, pp. 903-932.
• *Mori, T., Smith, T. E., & Hsu, W. T. (2020). “Common power laws for cities and spatial fractal structures,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(12), 6469-6475.
• Fujita, M., Krugman, P. and Mori, T. (1999), "On the evolution of hierarchical urban systems," European Economic Review, vol. 43, pp. 209–51.

Topic 6: New Economic Geography
• *Krugman, Paul (1991), “Increasing returns and economic geography,” Journal of Political
Economy, 99, pp. 483-499.
• *Helpman, E. (1998), “The size of regions,” in D. Pines, E. Sadka, Y. Zilcha (Eds.), Topics in
Public Economics, Cambridge University Press, New York, pp. 33-54.
• *Murata, Yasusada (2003). “Product diversity, taste heterogeneity, and geographic distribution of economic activities: market vs. non-market interactions,” Journal of Urban Economics 53.1: 126-144.
• Redding, Stephen and Daniel Sturm. 2008. “The costs of remoteness: Evidence from German division and reunification.” American Economic Review 98(5): 1766-1797.
• Fujita, Krugman, and Venables (1999), The Spatial Economy, MIT Press.

Topic 7: Quantitative Spatial Economics
• *Eaton, J., & Kortum, S. (2002). “Technology, Geography, and Trade,” Econometrica, 70(5), 1741-1779.
• *Allen, T., & Arkolakis, C. (2014). “Trade and the Topography of the Spatial Economy.” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 129(3), 1085-1140.
• *Ahlfedlt, Gabriel, Steven Redding, Daniel Sturm and Nikolaus Wolf (2015), “The Economics of Density: Evidence from the Berlin Wall,” Econometrica, 83(6), 2127-2189.
• *Donaldson, D. (2018). Railroads of the Raj: Estimating the impact of transportation infrastructure. American Economic Review, 108(4-5), 899-934.
• *Heblich, S., Redding, S. J., & Sturm, D. M. (2020). “The making of the modern metropolis: evidence from London.” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 135(4), 2059-2133
• Hsieh, Chang-Tai and Enrico Moretti (2019), “Housing Constraints and Spatial Misallocation,” American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 11(2), April 2019. 
課程要求
 Review the slides, go over the papers taught, derive the theoretical results for a few important papers, understand the logic of quantification, and understand the identification strategies in empirical work.
 
預期每週課後學習時數
  
Office Hours
 另約時間 
指定閱讀
  
參考書目
 Brueckner, Jan (2011), Lectures on Urban Economics, MIT Press. 
評量方式
(僅供參考)
  
No.
項目
百分比
說明
1. 
 Attendance 
5% 
  
2. 
 Homework Assignment 
25% 
 Individual-based 
3. 
 Paper Presentation 
25% 
 The Paper Presentation is group-based. Each group consists of 4 or 5 students; see a separate document for more details. Each group chooses a paper from the list below, and you will make a presentation to introduce the paper 
4. 
 Final Exam 
45% 
 For the final exam, the weights of problems/questions may differ between graduate and undergraduate students. 
 
課程進度
週次
日期
單元主題
第1週
 2/22  Introduction to “Cities”
• What is a city?
• Why are there cities? (Chapter 1, Brueckner’s textbook) 
第2週
 3/01  Internal Spatial Structure of a City
• Monocentric City Model – Chapters 2 and 3 of Brueckner’s textbook
• A more mathematical version of the monocentric city model 
第3週
 3/08  Internal Spatial Structure of a City
• Monocentric City Model – Chapters 2 and 3 of Brueckner’s textbook
• A more mathematical version of the monocentric city model 
第4週
 3/15  Urban Transportation
• Congestion tax
• Fundamental Law of Highway Congestion 
第5週
 3/22  Local Public Finance
• Henry George Theorem, adapted from Arnott and Stiglitz (1979) 
第6週
 3/29  System of Cities; Central Place Theory
• Spatial Competition: Salop (1979)
• Hsu, Holmes, and Morgan (2014)
• Mori, Smith, and Hsu (2020) 
第7週
 4/05  National Holiday 
第8週
 4/12  New Economic Geography
• Dixit and Stiglitz (1977)
• Krugman (1991)
• Helpman (1998)
• Murata (2003)
• Redding and Sturm (2008) 
第9週
 4/19  New Economic Geography
• Dixit and Stiglitz (1977)
• Krugman (1991)
• Helpman (1998)
• Murata (2003)
• Redding and Sturm (2008) 
第10週
 4/26  New Economic Geography
• Dixit and Stiglitz (1977)
• Krugman (1991)
• Helpman (1998)
• Murata (2003)
• Redding and Sturm (2008) 
第11週
 5/03  Quantitative Spatial Economics
• Eaton and Kortum (2002)
• Allen and Arkolakis (2014)
• Ahlfedlt, Redding, Sturm and Wolf (2015)
• Donaldson (2018)
• Heblich, Redding, and Sturm (2020) 
第12週
 5/10  Quantitative Spatial Economics
• Eaton and Kortum (2002)
• Allen and Arkolakis (2014)
• Ahlfedlt, Redding, Sturm and Wolf (2015)
• Donaldson (2018)
• Heblich, Redding, and Sturm (2020) 
第13週
 5/17  Quantitative Spatial Economics
• Eaton and Kortum (2002)
• Allen and Arkolakis (2014)
• Ahlfedlt, Redding, Sturm and Wolf (2015)
• Donaldson (2018)
• Heblich, Redding, and Sturm (2020) 
第14週
 5/24  Presentations 
第15週
 5/31  Presentations 
第16週
 6/7  Final Exam