ECON 4300 - International Trade                                              Fall 2024

Instructor: Bonnie Wilson, Associate Professor of Economics

Email: bonnie.wilson@slu.edu

In-person office hours: Thursdays, 12:30 -2:00, DS 369b 

Virtual office hours: Book an appointment here; Zoom link

Syllabus

Materials/Assignments

• Opening day

  • discussion preparation; prepare for 08.22

  • practice problems; submission form; prepare for 08.27 

• Gravity model; slides

  • empirical exercise and literature reading; prepare #4 for 08.29/09.03

    • google sheet

  • practice problems; submission form; submit on 09.03 

• Ricardian model; slides; The last slide states three "myths."  Prepare responses to those myths for 09.17  [In the slides, there is a hyperlink to reading material on which to base your responses.]

  • preliminaries - discussion preparation; prepare for 09.05

  • literature reading; prepare for 09.19/24

  • practice problems; submission form; submit before class on 09.26

• Heckscher-Ohlin model; slides

  • Stolper-Samuelson theorem practice problems; submission form; submit during class on 10.15

  • literature reading; prepare #1-6 for 10.17; add #7-11 for 10.22

• Economies of scale; slides

  • literature reading; prepare for 11.05

  • practice problems; submission form; submit during class on 11.07

• Policy; slides; more slides (dumping)

  • literature reading; prepare #1-13 for 12.03; add #14-18 for 12.05

  • practice problems; submission form

• Course overview

• Note:  Last year's final had 53 multiple choice questions and four short answer questions.

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 12.17

• Exam 1 histogram

• Exam 2 histogram

• final and semester total histograms

Announcements

• Extra in-person office hours in preparation for the final exam:

  • Tuesday, 12.10, 10:00 - 1:00

  • Thursday, 12.12, 2:00 - 5:00

• Extra in-person office hours in preparation for exam 2:  

  • Monday, 11.11, 11:00 - 1:00

  • Tuesday, 11.12, 12:30 - 2:00

• Extra in-person office hours in preparation for exam 1:  Monday, 10.07, 9:00-12:00

Links

• Galka's map of trade flows (08.27)

• WTO principles of the trading system (08.29)

• De Minimas debate (Shein and Temu) (09.24, follow-up from 09.19 conversation)

• Child labor laws and child labor; determinants of child labor

• Wool and mohair subsidy

Old Exams

• Fall 2024:  exam 1; exam 2

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

• Fall 2022: midterm exam (multiple choice solutions)

Exam Dates

• Exam 1: Tuesday, October 8 

• Exam 2: Thursday, November 14  

• Final exam:  Friday, December 13, 2:00 - 3:50 pm (day 5/5)