International Trade and Finance - L2 Reims and Paris
First Semester 2023-2024
I -- International Trade
1) Globalisation and comparative advantage:
Comparative Advantage and the Ricardian model
2) Globalization, employment and wages
3) International trade and market power
There is a growing number of nice websites with entertaining podcasts that feature many trade-related questions of current policy interests. Here are two of those:
* Paul Seabright: a history of trade
* Chad Bown and Soumaya Keynes trade talks
II -- International Finance
See Nicolas Coeurdacier web page: http://econ.sciences-po.fr/staff/nicolas-coeurdacier
International Trade - M1 IEP-PSIA
First Semester 2025-2026
1) Introduction
Sup reading: A Flat World, a Level Playing Field, a Small World after All, or None of the above?
A Review of Thomas L. Friedman's "The World is Flat", Journal of Economic Literature 45(1), Mar., 2007.
Sup. reading: Putting Ricardo to work
Sup. reading: Trade and Inequality and a great website for visualizing the China trade shock, with a nice summary paper
4) Increasing returns and trade
5) Gravity as a tool for measuring integration
Sup. Reading: Gravity for dummies
5) Heterogenous Firms, Trade and FDI
Sup. Reading: Efige report on the global operations of EU firms
Sup reading: World Bank Dev. Report 2009: Reshaping Economic Geography
Writing Seminar - M2 IEP-PSIA
First Semester 2023-2024