Economics 467

International Industrial Organizations
Summer 2008
Department of Economics
University of Wisconsin-Madison

 


Maria Muniagurria                 
Email: munia@ssc.wisc.edu      
        7424 Social Science                                                                     
        Phone: 263-3865                                                                           
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Here is the course  Syllabus (updated 6-11-08 )


Class Notes 1 (posted Th May 29)
Class Notes 2 (posted Fri May 30)
Class Notes 3 , Class Notes 4 (posted Fri June 6)
Class Notes 5, Class Notes 6 (posted Fri Jun 13)
Class Notes 7 (posted Tu Jun 17)

Trade Costs PPT presentation (from Keith Head's website for his book Elements of Multinational Strategy)
Notes on Bernard, Jensen et al (2007), Tables from Bernard et al (2005)

Class Notes 8 (posted Wed Jun 18)
Selected paragraphs/tables from An Anatomy of International Trade: Evidence from French Firms , Eaton, Kortum, Kramarz


EXAMS                                                    Date                                             ROOM

Exam 1    Answer Key                           Tue June 3  (starts 9.30 am)             5231 Social Science

Exam 2     Answer Key                          Wed June 11 (starts at 9.30 am)       5231 Social Science

Exam 3     Answer Key                           Friday June 20                                 5231 Social Science
 
 



SS08 Group Presentations: Groups, Topics and Schedule

Handouts:
IPP Baghwati/India  Handout from Class Presentation
IPP Brazil Class Presentation
Life, Death, and Property Rights: The Pharmaceutical Industry Faces AIDS in Africa Class Presentation
Empirical regularities, Ch. 1  Navaretti and Venables,  Class Presentation  (entire group presentation posted Th June 19)
The MNE, Theory and Findings, Ch. 2 Navaretti and Venables, Class Presentation
Monsanto Class Presentation
Exporting and Perfomance:evidence from Chilean Plants, Alvarez and Lopez , Class Presentation


Homework Assignments

Homework 1   (due  Monday  June 2 ) Answer Key

Homework 2    (problems (I) and (II) due Monday June 2 )
                         (problem 3 due Monday June 9)
                         Answer Key

Reciprocal Dumping Problem  (due Tu June 10 )      Short Answer Key

Monopolistic Competition Problem (due Monday June 16)  Answer Key


Old exams

Exam 1 (SS 2006)

Exam 2 (SS 2006)

Exam 3 (SS 2006)  Answer Key to Question III (monopolistic competition)


THEORY Handouts:

Oligopoly Theory /Strategic Trade (third market case)  (Maria's Handout)
Handout on Monopolistic Competition
Notes on Utility Function used in Monopolistic Competition
Notes on Deardorff's "Welfare Effect of Global Patent Protection" : single country case ( pages 1-9), two countries (pages 10-12)



Electronic Reserves:

            Econ  e- reserves at Soc. Sc. Ref. Library (use access through My UW)



Readings


 Strategic Trade
 
Civil Aircraft Power Point Presentation (based on  European Commission, Tyson, Irwin-Pavcnik)
     Non required readings:
           NBER Working Paper 8648 : Airbus vs. Boeing Revisited: International Competition in the Aircraft market by D.       Irwin and N. Pavcnik
           Civil Aircraft Industry: European Commission Site
          
Updates from the European Commission Site

R&D, Innovation and IPR

Welfare Effects of Global Patent Protection by Alan Deardorff, economica, Vol. 59, No 233 (Feb. 1992). Having trouble click here for alternate access

Intellectual Property Protection and Medicines by J. Bhagwati, The Financial Times 2002
Letter to the Financial Times on IPP by J. Bhagwati, February 2001

Brazil and Pharmaceutical Companies (COHA analysis, July 2005)
Brazil and IPR (very complete links from Consumer Project on Technology))
Brazil's Anuencia Previa /TRIPS (Murphy)
AIDS Policy and Pharmaceutical Patents: Brazil's Strategy to Safeguard Public Health. Cohen, J. & Lybecker, K. (2005) The World Economy 28 (2), 211-230.

Estimating the Effects of Global Patent Protection in Pharmaceuticals: A Case Study of Quinolones in India", Shubham Chaudhuri and Pinelopi K. Goldberg and Panle Jia", NBER Working Paper December 2003  http://www.nber.org/papers/w10159


IPR's CAFTA/ Guatemala
Consumer Project on Technology: Health and IPR
(specific countries + other)

Keith Maskus,   Intellectual Property Rights in the Global Economy, IIE, 2000 (pdfs of the chapters are at the end of the linked page)

 Intraindustry Trade and Monopolistic Competition
Increasing Returns and Economic Geography, Paul Krugman,The Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 99, No. 3. (Jun., 1991), pp. 483-499 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-3808%28199106%2999%3A3%3C483%3AIRAEG%3E2.0.CO%3B2-6

Scale Economies, Product Differentiation, and the Pattern of Trade , Paul Krugman ,The American Economic Review, Vol. 70, No. 5. (Dec., 1980), pp. 950-959. http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8282%28198012%2970%3A5%3C950%3ASEPDAT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-H

Dumping and International trade

The Worldwide Spread of Antidumping Protection by Meredith Crowley, Chicago Fed Letter, January 2004.

 
Multinational Firms/FDI

Expansion Strategies of US Multinationals Gordon H. Hanson, Raymond J. Mataloni, Jr., Matthew J. Slaughter, NBER Working Paper No. w8433, August 2001

“Foreign Direct Investment Behavior of Multinational Corporations”, Bruce A. Blonigen, NBER Reporter: Research Summary Winter 2006

http://www.nber.org/reporter/winter06/blonigen.html

 

Tariffs, Technology Transfer and Welfare  by R. Feenstra and K. Judd, JPE, Vol. 90, Dec. 1982.