2024

Regional Economics

Name: Regional Economics
Code: ECN02307L
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area: Economy

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English
Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

This unit aims to contribute to the understanding of the importance and role of territory in the economy and in economic analysis, as well as to provide a theoretical and analytical framework for planning of regional and local territories. And seeks to ensure the following core competencies: i) A solid knowledge about the spatial dimension of the functioning of economic activity and its implications on the performance of the economy of cities, regions and countries, ii) The domain of the theoretical and the methodologies more relevant and practical applications of economic theory with regard to the regional economy and urban iii) Knowledge of key figures and instruments of spatial planning and territorial Portugal iv) Mastery of the principles and instruments in support of regional policy of European Union; v) Domain methodologies and diagnostic procedures specific territorial realities and problems.

Contents

1. The variable space in economic analysis. The space and its scales . The space and its indicators analysis and planning . Region concept . The territory and its agents . The territory and its organization and hierarchy .
The territory and its infrastructure and equipment . Political and administrative territorial structure. Factors dynamic economic territories . The assessment of potential territorial and sectoral.
2. The regional economic theory . The precursors . The economic base of export theory. The growth poles theory. Models of regional growth. Theories of endogenous and exogenous regional development . The new approaches and perspectives .
3. The spatial analysis methods and techniques. The spatial analysis models. The spatial econometrics. The GIS.
4. The Portuguese system for regional policy and territorial planning. Regional planning in Portugal . Regional Policy in Portugal in the context of the European Union's Regional Policy.

Teaching Methods

The teaching model and the evaluation system of this curriculum unit are defined in order to ensure a solid connection between its theoretical and applied / practical components. In addition to the classes , which are theoretical and practical, a practical work should be developed by students within the regime of continuous assessment. In this practical work students should apply to a specific local or regional territory, a social, economic and infrastructural diagnosis and characterization.

Assessment

Continuous Assessment: A written test with a weighting of 45%; a practical group assignment with a weighting of 45% and an individual reading file with a weighting of 10%.
Students will pass if they have simultaneously obtained:

- A weighted average of 10 or more marks in all the required assessment elements;
- A mark of 7 or more in each of the assessment elements.
- A final weighted average of 10 or more in all the required assessment elements, together with a mark of less than 7 in one of the assessment tests, means that an oral test must be taken.
- Failure to attend one of the continuous assessment tests means that students opt for the examination system.
- Attendance at a minimum of 75% of collective teaching sessions (except in the case of student workers).

Exam regime: One written test (Exam) with a weight of 100%.

Teaching Staff

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