International Economics (Winter 2024)
Undergraduate
This class is a work in progress!

Class times
Lectures: Monday 14:00-16:00 and Wednesday 16:00-18:00
Office hours: Monday 16:00-17:00 and Wednesday 18:00-19:00

Syllabus
Subject to change/addition.
Tentative syllabus

Textbook
The below materials draw quite heavily on this text at times for intuition.
Krugman, Obstfeld & Melitz, ‘‘International Economics’’, 9th edition

Reading list
Lecture notes and exercise sets are the only required materials for this course.
Readings in this list are recommended list

Lectures
T0 Preliminaries slides notation list exercise set solutions
T1 National accounting & two-country Armington model slides notation list exercise set solutions
T2 Measurement, gravity & multi-country Armington model slides notation list exercise set solutions
T3 Ricardian trade & Eaton-Kortum model slides notation list exercise set solutions
T4 Specific factors model slides notation list exercise set solutions
T5 Heckscher-Ohlin model slides notation list exercise set solutions
T6 Economies of scale & Krugman model slides notation list exercise set solutions
T7 Firm heterogeneity & Melitz model slides notation list exercise set solutions
T8 Horizontal FDI & Helpman, Melitz, Yeaple model slides notation list exercise set solutions
T9 Vertical FDI & trade in tasks slides notation list exercise set solutions
T10 Measurement and gravity with multinational firms slides notation list exercise set solutions
T11 Firm dynamics and international engagement slides notation list exercise set solutions note on exam
T12 Variable markups
T13 Revision

Mock exam
Revised mock exam: new mock exam solutions
Old mock exam (this version was a bit too long for a one hour exam): mock exam solutions