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Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Regional Economics

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 118-0331/01
Abbreviation Reger
Course title Regional Economics
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Regional and Environmental Economics
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Jan Sucháček, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

I. Location decision-making. Location decision-making of the enterprise.
Enterprise or household as an open system. Further interacting subjects.
II. Neo-classical, Behavioristic and Structural approach to the location.
Location factors, their evolution and relevance.
III. Neo-classical approach or the importance of transportation costs for
location. Transportation costs and price. Optimal location.
IV. Influence of transportation costs on the volume of the production and used
technology. Production factors and exerted technology in spatial perspective.
V. Transportation costs and spatial monopoly. Price strategies of the spatial
monopoly.
VI. Organisational structure, technology and location of the enterprise.
Enterprise organisational structures and location behaviour.
VII. Location behaviour of big and small enterprises. Spatial aspects of
entrepreneurship and firm networks.
VIII. Theory of production cycle and its spatial aspects. New industry and
regional centres of the growth.
IX. Interaction of localities: attractiveness and competition. Dispersion and
concentration. Mechanisms supporting concentration and dispersion of economic
activities.
X. Agglomeration effects and their economic importance. Optimal size of the
city.
XI. Mutual relations of enterprises and creation of spatial structures. Von
Thünen’s theory.
XII. Theory of urban structures. Location decision-making of households.
XIII. Settlement structure and urban systems. Theory of central places. Theory
of urban systems.
XIV. Models of urban development. Particular developmental stages and their
application

Literature

1. Armstrong, M., Taylor, J.: Regional Economics and Policy. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2000.
2. Dunning, J., Lundan, S.: Multinational Enterprises and the Global Economy. London: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2008.

Advised literature

3. Vanhove, N., Klaassen, L.H.: Regional Policy - A European Approach.
Avenbury, Gower Publishing Company Limited, 1987.