Teaching

International Trade and Finance - L2 Reims and Paris

First Semester 2023-2024

Syllabus

I -- International Trade

1) Globalisation and comparative advantage:

            Globalisation

            Comparative Advantage and the Ricardian model

2) Globalization, employment and wages

3) International trade and market power

4) Trade Policies

There is a large 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.

2) Technology and trade

        Sup. reading: Putting Ricardo to work

3) Endowments and trade

        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

7) Economic Geography

    Sup reading:  World Bank Dev. Report 2009: Reshaping Economic Geography

8) Trade and wars

Writing Seminar - M2 IEP-PSIA

First Semester 2023-2024

Introduction.