Welcome to the course GitHub page for EC330: Urban & Regional Economic Problems taught at the University of Oregon in the Winter of 2020.

• Instructor: John Morehouse
• GE (grader): Shihab Siddiqui
• Syllabus

• Mike Urbancic: This course is based off and inspired by his Urban Economics course.

• Ed Rubin: For the slide aesthetic and for answering my never - ending R questions.

• Grant McDermott: For his class, which continues to be useful in too many ways to list -- and use of occassional code snippet for this class.

Lectures: Tuesday & Thursday 4:00-5:20 pm McKenzie Hall 240A

Office Hours (John): Monday 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm & Thursday 9:00 am - 9:50 am

After each lecture, I will post the slides below. I will post both a .html version and .pdf version of the slides -- the .html requires an internet connection to use. With the .pdf slides, you won't be able to view embedded interactive plots, but everything else should still work.

• Week 1: Intro & Review

  • Lecture 1: Introduction to Urban Economics

    • .pdf version

  • Lecture 2: EC201 Review & The 5 Axioms of Urban Economics

    • .pdf version

• Week 2: Cities & Firm Clustering

  • Lecture 3: Existence of Cities

    • .pdf version

  • Lecture 4: Firm Clustering & Growth

    • .pdf version

• Week 3: Land Rents

  • Lecture 5: Urban Rents

    • .pdf version

  • Lecture 6: Urban Land Use

    • .pdf version

• Week 4: Neighborhood Choice

  • Lecture 7: Neighborhood Choice Part I

    • .pdf version

  • Lecture 8: Neighborhood Choice Part II

    • .pdf version

• Week 5: Local Labor Markets

  • Lecture 9: Local Labor Markets Part I

    • .pdf version

  • Lecture 10: Local Labor Markets Part II Finished lecture 9 and Midterm Review

• Week 6: Midterm

  • Lecture 11: Midterm Exam

  • Lecture 12: Introduction to Place Based Policies

    • .pdf version

• Week 7: Place Based Policies

  • Lecture 13: Minimum Wage

    • .pdf version

  • Lecture 14: Housing Policy

    • .pdf version

• Week 8: Automobiles

  • Lecture 15: Automobiles Part I

    • .pdf version

  • Lecture 16: Automobiles Part II

  • .pdf version

• Week 9: Transit & The Environment

  • Lecture 17: Urban Transportation

    • .pdf version

  • Lecture 18: The Environmental Consequences of Sorting

    • .pdf version

• Week 10: Topics & Review

  • Lecture 19: The Geography of Income Inequality

  • Lecture 20: Final Review

• Week 11: Final Exam