Useful readings and links

Schedule

The course takes place from the 25th September until the 8th of December 2017.

Lectures will be held every week on:
– Monday 12.15 am room F2 (Polo Piagge)
– Tuesday 10.30 am room F2 (Polo Piagge)
– Friday 8.45 am room Windows (Centro di Calcolo)

REGIONAL POLICY & REGIONAL ECONOMICS

Duranton, G., Henderson, V., & Strange, W. (Eds.). (2015). Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, vol. 5B. Elsevier
Keating, M., & Loughlin, J. (2013). The political economy of regionalism. Routledge
Barca, F. (2009). Agenda for a Reformed Cohesion Policy. European Communities.
Molle, W. (2007). European cohesion policy. Routledge.
Vanhove and Klaassen (1980) “Regional Policy: A European Approach”
Combes, Mayer and Thisse (2008), Economic Geography, Princeton University Press
Solow (1956), A Contribution to the Theory of Growth, Quarterly Journal of Economics
Mankiw, Romer, and Weil (1990), A contribution to the empirics of economic growth, Quarterly Journal of Economics
Krugman (1993), Geography and Trade, MIT Press
Barro and Sala-i-Martin (2003) Economic Growth, MIT press
Ertur and Koch (2007), Growth, technological interdependence and spatial externalities: theory and evidence. Journal of Applied Econometrics
Quah (1996), Regional convergence clusters across Europe, European Economic Review
Fiaschi, Lavezzi and Parenti (2015), Does EU Regional Policy Work? Theory and Evidence mimeo.
Fiaschi and Lavezzi (2007), Productivity polarization and sectoral dynamics in European regions, Journal of Macroeconomics.
Lucas (1988), On the mechanics of economic development, Journal of Monetary Economics.
Weil (2012), Economic Growth, Prentice Hall.
Duraluf (1996), A theory of persistent income inequality, Journal of Economic Growth.
Barro (1990), Government Spending in a Simple Model of Endogenous Growth. Journal of Political Economy.
Fiaschi, Gianmoena, and Parenti (2015), Local Directional Moran Scatter Plot-LDMS, Région and Développement.
Fiaschi, Gianmoena, and Parenti (2015), Spatial Clubs in European Regions, mimeo.

NONPARAMETRIC ESTIMATION AND SPATIAL ECONOMETRICS

Wood (2006), Generalized Additive Models: An Introduction with R, Chapman and Hall/CRC
Henderson and Parmeter (2015), Applied Nonparametric Econometrics
Anselin, L. (2013). Spatial econometrics: methods and models (Vol. 4). Springer Science & Business Media
Pace, R. K., & LeSage, J. P. (2009). Introduction to spatial econometrics. Boca Raton, FL: Chapman &Hall/CRC

CAUSAL INFERENCE

Imbens, G.W. and J.M. Wooldridge (2009). Recent Developments in the Econometrics of Program Evaluation, Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 47(1), 5-86.
Holland P.W. (1986). Statistical and Causal Inference, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol.81(396).
P.J. Gertler et al. (2011). Impact Evaluation in Practice; Cap.1,3,4,6,7.
Angrist, J. and Pischke, J.S. (2015). Mastering ‘s Metrics: the pathfrom cause to effect. Princeton University Press.
Krueger, A.B. (1999). Experimental estimates of education production functions, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol.114(2).
Rosenbaum, P.R. and Rubin, D. (1983). The central role of the propensity score in observational studies for causal effect, Biometrika Vol.70(1)
Dehejia, R. and Wahba, S. (1999). Causal effects in nonexperimental studies: reevaluating the evaluation of training programs. Journal of the American Statistical Association. Vol. 94(448)
Becker, S. and Ichino, A. (2002). Estimation of the average treatment effects based on propensity scores. The Stata Journal Vol.2 (4)
Card, D. and Krueger, A.B. (1994). Minimum wage and employment: a case study of fast-food industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The American Economic Review. Vol.8 (4)
Gruber, J. (1994). The incidence of mandated maternity benefits. The American Economic Review. Vol.84(3)
Lindley, J. et. al. (2015). A non-parametric evaluation of the “Want2Work” programme. Economic Modelling. Vol.(51)
Angrist, J.D. et al. (1996). Identification of causal effect using instrumental variables. Journal of American Statistical Association. Vol.(91)
Imbens, G.W. and Lemieux, T. (2007). Regression discontinuity designs: A guide to practice. Journal of Econometrics.
Loi, M. and Rodrigues, M. (2012). A note on the impact evaluation of public policies: the counterfactual analysis.
Lee, D. and Lemieux, T. (2010). Regression Discontinuity Designs in Economics. Journal of Economic Literature 48 (June 2010): 281–355.
Skovron, C. and Titiunik, R. (2015). A Practical Guide to Regression Discontinuity Designs in Political Science.