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Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Housing and Technical Infrastructure Economics

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 153-0326/02
Abbreviation EBaTI
Course title Housing and Technical Infrastructure Economics
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Public Economics
Course coordinator Ing. David Lenert, Ph.D., MBA

Subject syllabus

1. The economic and social fundamentals of housing - housing definition, perspective of housing structure, housing segments, the character of housing as economic good
2. Social and urban theory in the housing area - historical development of theories, classical and neoclassical approach to addressing housing related matters
3. Models of residential systems - market housing models, administrative quota redistributive model
4. State and local housing policies - objectives, methods and instruments, emergence since 1990, local municipalities actions in the management of stock housing, performance indicators in the Czech Republic and abroad
5. Rent - economic fundamentals of rent, evolvement and rent types, rent regulation and its economic consequences
6. Services related to apartment utilization - the price of services, method of its allocation
7. Technical infrastructure segmentation – basic concepts, criteria and their application to infrastructure systems, technical infrastructure management, public administration relationship to its management
8. Concept of development and functioning of the technical infrastructure as part of the territory development - sectional (occupational) development concepts, business development concepts, procurement.
9. Regional planning - fundamentals and objectives in the relation to the technical infrastructure, regional planning tools, economy of the regional planning
10. Fundamentals of the technical infrastructure economy - economic inhomogeneity of technical infrastructure, common features (network character, public interest), the prevailing processes, targeting of services, the character of management
11. Prices, affordability of infrastructure services - pricing on the social principle basis, cost, demand and multicomponent prices, subsidies to prices, cross-subsidies
12. Technical infrastructure models - management conventions, mixed and separated models, their fundamentals, advantages and disadvantages and segmentation
13. Attributes market service of technical infrastructure - market competition and its types, market pattern, market participant’s behavior
14. Natural monopoly effect and its redemption in the field of technical infrastructure - polarization on regulation of natural monopolies, mechanism to overriding of monopolistic behavior

Literature

HAYES, Brian. Industrial landscape. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2006, 544. ISBN 978-0393329599 .
GLAESER, L. Edward and John M. QUIGLEY. Housing Markets and the Economy: Risk, Regulation, and Policy. Cambridge: Lincoln Inst of Land Policy, 2009, 432. ISBN 978-1558441842 .

Advised literature

LEVY, Matthys and Richard PANCHYK. Engineering the City: How Infrastructure Works, Projects and Principles for Beginners. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2000, 129. ISBN 978-1556524196 .