PhD International Trade Materials
Arnaud Costinot and I taught a two-semester sequence in PhD International Trade at MIT in 2017-18. The materials are below.
Part I (Fall 2017): Neoclassical Models
- Lecture 1: Comparative Advantage and Gains from Trade
- Lecture 2: Comparative Advantage and Gains from Trade (Empirics)
- Lecture 3 : Ricardian Theory (I)
- Lecture 4: Ricardian Theory (II))
- Lecture 5: Ricardo-Roy Model
- Lecture 6: Ricardian Model (Empirics)
- Lecture 7: Assignment Models (Empirics)
- Lecture 8: Factor Proportion Theory (I)
- Lecture 9: Factor Proportion Theory (II)
- Lecture 10: Nonparametric Counterfactual Predictions in Neoclassical Models of International Trade
- Lecture 11: Heckscher-Ohlin Model and Inequality (Empirics I)
- Lecture 12: Heckscher-Ohlin Model and Inequality (Empirics II)
- Lecture 13: Trade Costs and Gravity (Empirics I)
- Lecture 14: Trade Costs and Gravity (Empirics II)
- Lecture 15: Trade Costs and Gravity (Empirics III)
- Lecture 16: International Fragmentation (Empirics)
- Lecture 17: Fragmentation (Theory)
- Lecture 18: Aggregate Fluctuations
- Lecture 19: Trade and Growth (Theory)
- Lecture 20: Trade and Growth (Empirics I)
- Lecture 21: Trade and Growth (Empirics II)
- Lecture 22: Trade Policy Theory (I)
- Lecture 23: Trade Policy Theory (II)
- Lecture 24: Trade Policy Theory (III)
- Lecture 25: Trade Policy (Empirics I)
Part 2 (Spring 2018): Models with Market Failures
- Lecture 1: Monopolistic Competition
- Lecture 2: Monopolistic Competition (Empirics)
- Lecture 3: Firm Heterogeneity (Theory I)
- Lecture 4: Firm-level Heterogeneity (Empirics I)
- Lecture 5: Firm-level Heterogeneity (Empirics II)
- Lecture 6: Firm-level Heterogeneity (Empirics III)
- Lecture 7: Firm Heterogeneity (Theory II)
- Lecture 8: Firm Heterogeneity (Theory III)
- Lecture 9: Measuring the Gains from Trade (Empirics)
- Lecture 10: Gains from Trade (Theory)
- Lecture 11: Micro to Macro: Optimal Trade Policy with Firm Heterogeneity
- Lecture 12: Markups (Theory)
- Lecture 13: Trade and Markups (Empirics)
- Lecture 14: The Elusive Pro-Competitive E ects of Trade
- Lecture 15: Econ Geography (theory I)
- Lecture 16: Economic Geography (Empirics I)
- Lecture 17: Economic Geography (Empirics II)
- Lecture 18: Economic Geography (Empirics III)
- Lecture 19 : Economic Geography (Empirics IV)
- Lecture 21: Trade and Growth (Theory I)
- Lecture 23: Trade and Growth (Empirics I)
- Lecture 24: Trade and Growth (Empirics II)
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