EH432 Half Unit
Economic History and Geography: Advanced Topics and Methods
This information is for the 2022/23 session.
Teacher responsible
Professor Joan R Roses (SAR 5.15)
Availability
This course is available on the MSc in Economic History, MSc in Economic History (Research), MSc in Financial History, MSc in Global Economic History (Erasmus Mundus) and MSc in Political Economy of Late Development. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.
Pre-requisites
Students should have completed courses in intermediate level econometrics.
Knowledge of spatial econometric packages like GIS is not necessary. The course will not provide a comprehensive training in econometric methods or computer applications.
Course content
The course aims to introduce the student to topics at the frontier of Historical Economic Geography research of importance both at a theoretical and empirical level. Historical Economic Geography explores how and why the location of economic activities changes across time and space. To do so, it combines methodologies from several social sciences including Economic History, Economic Geography, Human Geography, Economics and Econometrics.
The focus is on acquiring the necessary skills to engage in advanced analysis of historical economic geography evidence and understand how History and Geography can shape economic development. The course consists of nine two-hours seminars on specialised topics in historical economic geography and one preparatory research workshop. This course contents change from year to year following the recent developments in the discipline.
The topics considered in this edition of the course are the following. 1) general problems of research with historical and spatial data; 2) the construction of historical-spatial data; 3) historical analysis of market integration: time-series and dynamic panels; 4) historical analysis of the spatial concentration of economic activities: measurement and determinants; 5) historical and spatial analysis of factor markets; 6) historical analysis of the local labour markets; 7) natural experiments in Historical Economic Geography: policies and shocks; 8) the evolution and measurement of regional inequality; 9) historical analysis of the urban space.
Teaching
20 hours of computer workshops in the LT.
Formative coursework