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Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Regionální ekonomie

Typ studia bakalářskénavazující magisterskémagisterské
Jazyk výuky angličtina
Kód 118-0501/07
Zkratka REGEC-EBS
Název předmětu česky Regionální ekonomie
Název předmětu anglicky Regional Economics
Kreditů 5
Garantující katedra Katedra regionální a environmentální ekonomiky
Garant předmětu prof. Ing. Jan Sucháček, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Location decision-making. Enterprise or household as open systems. Economic milieu.
2. Neo-classical, behavioural and structural approaches to the location. Location factors, their evolution and importance.
3. Neo-classical approach or the importance of transportation costs for location. Transportation costs and price. Optimal location.
4. Transportation costs and spatial monopoly. Price strategies of the spatial monopoly.
5. Organisational structure, technology and location of the enterprise. Location behaviour of big and small enterprises. Theory of production cycle and its spatial aspects. New industry and regional centres of the growth.
6. Interaction of localities. Dispersion and concentration. Mechanisms supporting concentration and dispersion of economic activities. Agglomeration effects and their economic importance. Optimal size of the city.
7. Mutual relations of enterprises and formation of spatial structures.
8. Theory of urban structures. Location decision-making of households.
9. Settlement structure and urban systems. Theory of central places. Theory of urban systems.
10. Models of urban development. Urban structures from an evolutionary perspective.
11. Regions, regionalisation and regionalism. Rank/type differentiation of regions.
12. Regional development. Basic approaches to regional development.
13. Contemporary issues linked with regional development.

Literature

Vanhove, N., Klaassen,L.H. (1987): Regional Policy – A European Approach. Aldershot. Avenbury. Gower Publishing Company Limited, ISBN 0-566-05413-2.
Fothergill, S. – Guy, N. (1990): Retreat from the Regions. London: Jessica Kigsley Publishers, ISBN 1-85302-100-8.

Advised literature

Shephard, E., Barnes, T. (eds.) (2003): A Companion to Economic Geography. Oxford. Blackwell Publishers, ISBN 0-631-23579-5.
van Dijk, J, Pellenbarg, P.H. (1999): Demography of Firms. Spatial Dynamics of Firm Behaviour. Groningen: Rijksuniversiteit,
ISBN 90-6809-285-5 .