Topics in International Trade (Undergrad)

Syllabus (pdf)

Slides:

1) An Overview of World Trade

2) Ricardian comparative advantage: A Review of the 2x2 model

3) Ricardian comparative advantage: DFS (1977)

4) Increasing returns, Monopolistic Competition and Trade: Krugman (1979)

5) The Home Market Effect

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

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

8) Skill Dispersion and Comparative Advantage

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

10) Performance Pay, Trade and Inequality

11) Leaning by Exporting: Clerides et al (1998)

Student Presentations:

SECOND ROUND

04/06:

Pedro Mello: "Transportation costs and international trade in the second era of globalization", Hummels (JEcP 2007)

Luiz Felipe Barros: "The Narrow Moving Bank, the Dutch Disease, and the Competitive Consequences of Mrs. Thatcher: Notes on Trade in the Presence of Dynamic Scale Economies", (JDE 1987)

05/06:

Janaina Machado: "The impact of NAFTA on the USA", Burfisher et al (JEcP 2001)

João Ferreira: "Protection for Sale: An Empirical Investigation", Goldberg and Maggi (AER 1999)

03/04:

Rafael Parente: "Integration of trade and disintegration of production in the global economy", Feenstra (JEcP 1998)

Rafael Lavourinha: "The rise of europe: Atlantic trade, institutional change, and economic growth", Acemoglu et al (AER 2005)

12/06:

Gustavo Villeth

Roberto Bandarra: "The limits of trade policy reform in developing countries", Rodrik (JEcP 1992)

FIRST ROUND

02/04:

Gustavo Villeth: "People flows in globalization", Freeman (JEcP 2006)

Roberto Bandarra: "How costly is protectionism?", Feenstra (JEcP 1992)

03/04:

Rafael Parente: "Globalization and us wages: Modifying classic theory to explain recent facts" Haskel, Lawrence, Leamer and Slaughter (JEcP 2012)

Rafael Lavourinha: "The world income distribution", Acemoglu and Ventura (QJE 2002)

09/04:

Janaina Machado: "Does Trade cause growth?", Frankel and Romer (AER 1999)

João Ferreira: "The Long-Term Effects of Africa's Slave Trades", Nunn (QJE 2008)

10/04:

Pedro Mello: "The Rise of Middle Kingdoms: Emerging Economies in Global Trade", Hanson (JEcP 2012)

Luiz Felipe Barros: "A Model of Innovation, Technology Transfer and the World Distribution of Income", Krugman (JPE 1979)

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

* Feenstra, R., and Taylor, A. M. (2010). International Trade. Worth Publishers; 2nd edition.

* McLaren, J. (2012). International Trade. Wiley.