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Below is the sample material from Fall 2016 class

Instruction: Write a report on whether the US should or should not join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). More specifically, argue whether the US should or should not join the TPP with particular focus on ONE of the following topics:

• Domestic jobs and wage rate
• Industrial competitiveness (goods and services)
• Global supply chain and/or trade pattern
• Flow of foreign investment (direct and indirect)
• Political economy, in the context of income distribution

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Relevant videos:

-"U.S. Trade Rep. Froman: TPP Helps Level the Playing Field" (Bloomberg)

-"Trade Policy in a Trump Administration" (C-Span)

Relevant news articles

-"Columns: How to Help Workers Laid Low by Trade - and Why We Haven't" (PBS, Nov.16)

-"Columns: The truth about trade agreements-and why we need them" (PBS, Nov.21)

Relevant nonacademic research papers

-"Recent Trends in U.S. Services Trade" (USITC, 2016)

-"TPP Agreement: Likely Impact on the U.S. Economy and on Specific Industry Sectors" (USITC, 2016)

-"Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Countries:Comparative Trade and Economic Analysis" (CRS, 2013)

-"Assessing the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Volume 1" (PIIE)

-"The Economic Effects of the Trans-Pacific Partnership: New Estimates" (PIIE)

-"Adjustment and Income Distribution Impacts of the Trans-Pacific Partnership" (PIIE)

-"Trade and employment: challenges for policy research" (OECD/ILO)

Relevant academic research papers

-"Multinational firms, value chains, and vertical integration" (NBER)

-"A political-economic analysis of free-trade agreements" (AER)