International Trade 2015

Syllabus

1. International Trade Theory

Ricardian: Dornbusch, Fischer, and Samuelson (1977), Eaton and Kortum (2002)

Hecksher-Ohlin: Dornbusch, Fischer, and Samuelson (1980)

Increasing Returns to Scale: Krugman (1980)

2. Applications and Empirics

References: Trefler (1995), Anderson and van Wincoop (2003), Alvarez and Lucas (2007)

3. Recent Advances in International Trade

Heterogeneous Firms: Melitz (2003), Bernard, Eaton, Jensen, and Kortum (2003), Chaney (2008)

Trade, Variable Mark-ups, and Productivity: Melitz and Ottaviano (2008), Atkeson and Burstein (2008)

4. Applications and Empirics

References: Bernard and Jensen (1995), Roberts, and Tybout (1997), Pavcnik (2002), Tybout (2002), Hummel and Klenow (2005), Eaton, Eslava, Kugler,

and Tybout (2008), Eaton, Kortum, and Kramarz (2011), Arkolakis, Costinot, and Rodriguez-Clare (2012), Costinot, Donaldson, and Komunjer (2012),

Kehoe and Ruhl (2013), Melitz and Redding (2014)

5. Trade, Firms, and Growth

References: Young (1991), Grossman and Helpman (1991), Hopenhayn (1992), Parente and Prescott (1994), Young (1995), Ventura (1997), Frankel and Romer (1999),

Foster, Haltiwanger, and Krizan (2001), Klette and Kortum (2004), Ripoll and Dejong (2006), Luttmer (2007), McGrattan and Prescott (2009), Hsieh and Klenow (2009),

Bajona and Kehoe (2010), Kehoe and Ruhl (2010), Brandt and Van Biesebroeck (2012), Asturias, Hur, Kehoe, and Ruhl (2016), Yi (2003)

Student presentations

Group Research Presentations

Related courses: Tim Kehoe, Kim Ruhl