The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Firms in International Trade - Marc Melitz (Department of Economics, Harvard University) Recent empirical evidence has shown that firms/plants producing similar goods react very differently...

Topics : - Intra-industry versus inter-industry trade: effects on wages, employment, inequality and migration. - Offshoring, outsourcing and FDI: effects on home and host labour markets - Labour migration, trade flows, and FDI : substitutability versus complementarity - Trade, specialization...