Instructor: Lukasz Drozd

Office Hours: Thursday 5pm-6pm or by appointment

Lectures: Mon/Wed 9:30am - 10:45am in Ingraham Hall 214

Syllabus

Part I. International Trade

Notes:
All in one file

Slides:
Part 1 (Armington Model)
Part 2 (Monopolistic Competition Model)
Part 3 (Ricardian Model with a Continuum)
Part 4 (Eaton and Kortum, 2002)
Part 5 (Melitz, 2003)
Part 6 (Bernard, Eaton, Jensen and Kortum, 2003)

List of Papers for 15 min In-Class Discussion:
Vertical Specialization and Growth of Trade: Kei-Mu-Yi 2003
Firm Level Export Data by Destination: Eaton, Kortum and Kramartz, 2003
Gravity with Trade Zeros: Helpman, Melitz, Rubinstein, Yeaple 2007
Trade Zeros and Models of Trade: Baldwin and Harrigan 2007
Trade vs. FDI: Helpman, Melitz, Yeaple, 2004
Endogenous Markups in Melitz model: Melitz and Ottaviano, 2005
Skill Premium and Trade: Yeaple, 2005
Welfare Gains from Product Variety: Broda and Weinstein, 2004
 

Student Presentations (successful job market papers in trade):
Waugh (2007), Chaney (2008)

Homework Assignments:
Homework 1
Homework 2

Part II. International Business Cycle

Solving DSGE Models Using Perturbation Method   Supporting m-file

Part III. Business Cycle in Emerging Economies

 

Updated: 5/2/2008

 

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