The exam will be held on line for all students:

Tuesday 12 January , 2020, 16:00-17:30

(3 students are allocated 30 more minutes)

Instructions and questions will be posted 10 minutes before the exam starts
on the intranet of the University.

You will acceed through the EPI page developed for tutorials by Dr. Lea Marchal.

Textbooks:

• Helpman, E. & P. Krugman (1985). Market Structure and Foreign Trade. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  
• Feenstra R. (2015) Advanced International Trade: Theory and Evidence, Princeton University Press
  
• De Melo J., Grether J.-M. (1997). Commerce international - Théories et applications, De Boeck.
• Combes P.P., Mayer T., Thisse J.F. (2008) Economic Geography - The Integration of Regions and Nations, Princeton University Press
• Prerequisite: an undergrad textbook  (e.g. Mayer & Mucchielli) or Krugman \& Obstfeld, International economics

 1 The standard model -- Slides 

Tutorial: Ricardian comparative advantage
    - Eaton J. Kortum S. (2002), Technology geography and trade. Econometrica
    - Costinot A., Donaldson D., Komunjder I. (2012), What goods do countries trade? A quantitative exploration of Ricardo's ideas. Review of Economic Studies
   
2 HOV with differences in technology -- Slides

Tutorial: HOV works !
    - Davis D. R., Weinstein D.E. (2001), An account of global factor trade. American Economic Review
    - Trefler D. (1995), The case of the missing trade and other mysteries. American Economic Review

3 Monopolistic competition with homogenous firms -- Slides

Tutorial: Market access and gravity
    - de Sousa J., Mayer T., Zignago S. (2012), Market access in global and regional trade. Regional Science and Urban Economics
    - Baier S. L., Bergstrand J.H. (2007), Do free trade agreements actually increase members' international trade? Jounal of International Economics

4 New economic geography  -- Slides

Tutorial: Geography and income
    - Redding S., Venables A.J. (2004), Economic geography and international inequality. Journal of International Economics 
    - Limao N., Venables A. (2001), Infrastructure, geographical disadvantage, transport costs and trade. World Bank Economic Review

5 Firm level facts and Heterogenous firms model

Tutorial: Empirical facts on firms
    - Bernard, A. B., Jensen, J. B., Redding, S. J., & Schott, P. K. (2007). Firms in international trade. Journal of Economic Perspectives
     - Mayer, Thierry, and Gianmarco IP Ottaviano. The Happy Few: The internationalisation of European firms. Bruegel Blueprint


6. Extensions of the baseline heterogenous firms model: demand structure and technology

Tutorial: Inside exporter's productivity
    - Melitz M., Ottaviano G. (2008), Market size, trade, and productivity. Review of Economic Studies
    -Chaney T. (2008), Distorted Gravity: the Intensive and Extensive Margins of International Trade. American Economic Review

7. FDI, Firm Heterogeneity and Global Sourcing

Tutorial: Multinational activity
    - Antras, P., & Helpman, E. (2004). Global sourcing. Journal of Political Economy 
     - Helpman, E., Melitz, M. J., & Yeaple, S. R. (2004). Export versus FDI with heterogeneous firms. American Economic Review

8. Trade liberalization and firm performance 

Tutorial: Beyond selection effects of trade openness
    - Goldberg, P. K., Khandelwal, A. K., Pavcnik, N., & Topalova, P. (2010). Imported intermediate inputs and domestic product growth: Evidence from India. The Quarterly journal of economics
    - Pavcnik, N. (2002). Trade liberalization, exit, and productivity improvements: Evidence from Chilean plants. Review of Economic Studies


9 The role of product quality on heterogeneous firms models 

Tutorial: Quality and trade
    - Manova, K., & Zhang, Z. (2012). Export prices across firms and destinations. Quarterly Journal of Economics
    - Verhoogen, E. A. (2008). Trade, quality upgrading, and wage inequality in the Mexican manufacturing sector. Quarterly Journal of Economics

​10 Trade and labor markets

Tutorial: The impact of trade and offshoring on workers
    - Ebenstein, A., Harrison, A., McMillan, M., & Phillips, S. (2014). Estimating the impact of trade and offshoring on American workers using the current population surveys. Review of Economics and Statistics
    - Biscourp, P., & Kramarz, F. (2007). Employment, skill structure and international trade: Firm-level evidence for France. Journal of International Economics

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