Teaching Materials for Ph.D Trade
Teaching materials based on EC792 at Boston University in 2025. I thank Treb Allen, Costas Arkolakis, Arnaud Costinot, Dave Donaldson, Pablo Fajgelbaum, Amit Khandelwal, and Steve Redding for sharing teaching materials.
Part I: Empirics of Welfare Gains from Trade
Lecture 1: Reduced-form Approach
Lecture 2: Sufficient-Statistics Approach
Lecture 3: Structural Estimation Approach
Lecture 4: Heterogeneous Effects of Trade
Part II: Production Networks
Lecture 5: Hulten's Theorem in Closed and Open Economies
Lecture 6: Endogenous Networks: Theory (Arkolakis, Huneeus, Miyauchi 2025)
Lecture 7: Endogenous Networks: Application (Korovkin, Makarin, Miyauchi 2024)
Part III: Economic Geography
Lecture 8: Spatial Equilibrium Models
Lecture 9: Quantitative Urban Models
Lecture 10: Unpacking Aggregate Welfare in a Spatial Economy (Donald, Fukui, Miyauchi 2024)
Teaching Materials for Undergraduate Urban and Regional Economics
Syllabus (EC328 at Boston University in 2025)