Topics in International Trade

Syllabus (pdf)

Slides:

1) Ricardian Models I: DFS (1977)

2) Ricardian Models II: Eaton and Kortum (2002)

3) IRS - Monopolistic Competition: Krugman (1979)

4) The Home Market Effect: Helpman and Krugman (1985)

5) Factor Proportions and the Structure of Commodity Trade: Romalis (2004)

6) Skill dispersion and Comparative Advantage: Theory and Evidence

7) Incomplete Contracts and the Pattern of Trade: Nunn (2007)

8) Across-Product versus Within-Product Specialization: Schott (2004)

9) Exporting and Firm-level Performance: Clerides, Lach and Tybout (1998)

10) Heterogeneous firms, Reallocations and Aggregate Productivity: Melitz (2003)

11) Estimating Trade Flows: Helpman, Melitz and Rubinstein (2008)

12) The Proximity-Concentration trade-off with heterogeneous firms: Helpman, Melitz and Yeaple (2004)

13) Global Sourcing: Antràs and Helpman (2004)

14) Global Sourcing: Evidence (Optional)

15) Trade, Inequality and Unemployment: Helpman, Itskhoki and Redding (2010)

16) Endogeous Firm Heterogeneity, Trade and Wages: Yeaple (2005)

Problem Sets:

Problem Set 1: Solution

Problem Set 2: Solution

Problem Set 3: Solution

Acknowledgement: In preparing some of the slides for this course, I've drawn material from:

* Pol Antràs, course materials for 14.581 - International Economics I, Spring 2007. MIT.

* Matilde Bombardini, course materials for Econ 555 - International Trade, Spring 2009. The University of British Columbia.