Issues in International Trade
Advanced course covering international trade and investment, foreign direct investment, dynamic trade models, and firm-level heterogeneity.
Summary
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.67 GPA, 83.3% A/AB (n=18 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.82 GPA, 94.7% A/AB (n=19 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Understand the motives for multinational production: theories of horizontal, vertical, and export platform foreign direct investment.
Evaluate the potential benefits and costs of hosting a multinational corporation.
Access and analyze data on international trade and production.
Apply boundary-of-the-firm theories to determine what factors influence outsourcing decisions.
Demonstrate an understanding of models of investment under uncertainty
Write computer programs to solve multinational decision problems and use the models to analyze the ways that optimal behavior depends on parameter values
Source: UW Guide
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Prerequisites
Course mapECON 464, 310, and (MATH 217 or 221); or graduate/professional standing
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the class
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.67 GPA, 83.3% A/AB (n=18 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.82 GPA, 94.7% A/AB (n=19 letter grades).
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Topics
- International trade and investment
- Foreign direct investment
- Dynamic models of trade
- Models of firm-level heterogeneity
- Investment under uncertainty
Skills
- Understanding motives for multinational production including FDI theories
- Evaluating benefits and costs of hosting multinational corporations
- Accessing and analyzing data on international trade and production
- Applying boundary-of-the-firm theories to outsourcing decisions
- Understanding models of investment under uncertainty
- Writing computer programs to solve multinational decision problems
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