ECON 4300 - International Trade                                              Fall 2023

Instructor: Bonnie Wilson, Associate Professor of Economics

Email: bonnie.wilson@slu.edu

In-person office hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:30 -12:30, DS 369b 

Virtual office hours: Make an appointment in advance here; Zoom link

Syllabus

Materials/Assignments

• Opening day

  • discussion preparation; prepare for 08.24

  • practice problems; submission form; submitted in class on 08.29

• Gravity model; slides

• empirical exercise and literature reading; prepare #4 for 09.05

  • • google sheet

  • practice problems; submission form; submit during class on 09.07

• Ricardian model; slides; The last slide states three "myths."  Prepare responses to those myths for 09.19 

  • preliminaries:  discussion preparation; prepare for 09.12

  • literature reading; prepare #1-4 for 09.19; add #5-9 for 09.21; add #10-17 for 09.26

  • practice problems; submission form; submitted during class on 09.26

~~~~~~~~~~ Exam 1 material cut-off ~~~~~~~~~~

• Heckscher-Ohlin model; slides

  • Stolper-Samuelson theorem practice problems; submission form; submitted in class on 10.17

  • literature reading; prepare #1-6 for 10.19; add #7-12 for 10.24

• Economies of scale; slides 

  • literature reading; prepare for 11.09

  • practice problems; submission form; submit during class on 11.14 

~~~~~~~~~~ Exam 2 material cut-off ~~~~~~~~~~

• Policy; slides; slides (dumping)

  • reading; prepare #1-3 and #5-9 for 11.30; add #10-13 for 12.05

  • practice problems; submission form; submit 12.07 

• Closing day

  • discussion preparation; prepare for 12.07

  • Overview

Spreadsheet

• As I record scores, I will post updated versions of the course spreadsheets.  Scores are listed the by last four digits of your ID, and sorted numerically by ID.  If you have questions or concerns, and especially if you spot any recording errors, please let me know.

• Spreadsheet; updated 12.19 (includes practice problem weighting)

• exam 1 histogram

• exam 2 histogram

• final exam and semester total histograms

Announcements

• Office hours during final exam week:  11:00 - 1:00 Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, 12.11-14

• Extra in-person office hours in preparation for exam 2:  Wednesday, 11.15, 11:00 - 3:00

• We will not meet as a class on Thursday, September 28.  I will be at LMU (to evaluate their economics department).

• Extra in-person office hours in preparation for exam 1

  • Tuesday, October 3, 10:30 - 12:30

  • Wednesday, October 4, 10:00 - 11:30

  • Thursday, October 4, 11:00 - 12:30

Links

• WTO principles (referenced on 09.07)

• A fleecing

• Presidential tariff actions FAQs

Old Exams

• Fall 2023:  exam 1 (multiple choice solutions); exam 2 (multiple choice solutions)

• Fall 2022: midterm exam (multiple choice solutions)

• Fall 2021:  midterm exam (multiple choice solutions)

• Fall 2019:  exam 2 (multiple choice solutions)

Exam Dates

• Exam 1: Thursday, October 5 

• Exam 2: Thursday, November 16  

• Final exam:  Friday, December 15, 2:00 - 3:50 pm