Course Description

This course provides an overview of international trade the movement of goods and services across national boundaries – developing analytic tools that can be used to analyze world economic policy debates. Class meetings are interactive. We will begin most classes with a brief review of current events related to international trade. We then work through together, as a class, one of the models under study or look at some economic data and how it informs our understanding of the models under study.

Sep 10 Lecture1　Introduction: What is international trade?

Sep 12 Lecture2　Who do countries trade with? What do they trade?

Sep 17 Lecture3　Why do countries trade?

Sep 19 Lecture4　Why do countries trade?

Sep 24 Lecture5　The Winners from Trade…

Sep 26 Lecture6　The Winners from Trade…

Oct 01 Lecture7　…and the Losers

Oct 03 Lecture8　…and the Losers

Oct 08 Lecture9　The Welfare Effects of Trade

Oct 10 Lecture10　The Welfare Effects of Trade　

Oct 15 Lecture11　 Mid-Term Exam

Oct 29 Lecture15　Case Study: Toys R US Japan

Oct 31 Lecture16　Peer Writing Workshop / Term Paper Draft Due

Nov 05 Lecture17　Firms in the Global Economy

Nov 07 Lecture18　Firms in the Global Economy