ISSUES IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE

ECON 661

Examines the macroeconomics of open economies (countries that can trade goods and assets with other countries). Takes a systematic approach to building and examining macroeconomic models of the open economy, to try to understand the determination of output and employment, trade balance, capital flows, the foreign currency exchange rate, international prices, and the role of uncertainty and asset choice.

ECON 464

Contemporary theory of International Trade, focusing on why nations trade and what do they trade, and in what sense international trade is beneficial to trading countries. Current policy issues will be examined to demonstrate the usefulness as well as the limitations of the theory.

ECON 977

Current research in international trade; a wide range of topics in theory, quantitative analysis, statistics, and policy. For graduate students in their second or later years when working on theses.

ECON 467

Focuses on the behavior of international firms and the public policies that affect them. Study theoretical models of strategic competition, evaluate the effects of government policies, review aggregate empirical evidence and learn from case studies.

ECON 978

Second in a two seminar sequence on the current research in international trade; a wide range of topics in theory, quantitative analysis, statistics, and policy. For graduate students in their second or later years when working on theses.