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- Code:
- ECON-L6000
- Field:
- Urban Economics
- Targets:
- Research Master's students PhD students
- Organiser:
- Aalto University
- Instructor:
- Prottoy Akbar
- Period:
- August 2026
- Format:
- Participation in teaching
- Method:
- Contact teaching
- Venue:
- Otaniemi campus
- Enrollment:
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Aalto, Hanken and UH economics students can enroll through their home university’s SISU. Further instructions are available on the How to enroll? page, also for students from other universities.
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Content
This doctoral field course will include such topics as:
- Spatial equilibrium within and across cities.
- Housing markets, residential location sorting and preferences over amenities.
- Quantitative spatial equilibrium models.
- Transportation economics.
- Migration and urbanization.
- Urban segregation, neighborhood effects and (unequal) access to opportunities.
- Regional economics and the environment.
Learning outcomes
This course will introduce students to the foundational work in urban and regional economics, as well as an overview of the more recent work in these fields. By the end of this course, students should be well acquainted with the tools and methods used to study explicitly spatial problems in the economic geography of regional and urban economics. They should also understand the key questions that drive these fields, and recognize the academic research done at the frontier of these fields.