Introduction to the theory of international trade and finance with applications to current policy issues. From the ….e. international trade, and what determines the flow of savings and investments from one country to another, i.e. international finance … globalization, free trade agreements, the large current account deficits of the US, the prospects for exchange rates, and the calls …

In the early 1990s, the United States began to run a significant trade deficit with China due to the dual forces of … greater trade liberalization and China’s transition from a command economy towards a market economy. Proponents of free trade … challenges of applying World Trade Organization regulations on market driven economies. The effects will be even more difficult …

trade flows of nations, and the consequential implications for the levels of per capita income and welfare of their … populations. The first of these documents a pattern of comparative advantage in product level, bilateral trade data that … conventional quantitative trade models have difficulty explaining. It goes on to develop a theory of product level productivity …

First chapter aims to quantify the role of trade in capital goods incross country income differences. I construct a … multi-country general equilibriummodel of trade along the line of Eaton and Kortum (2002) and Alvarezand Lucas (2007) and … introduce trade in capital goods and capital accumulation.In this framework, comparative advantage and the costs of …

This dissertation consists of three essays in International Trade. The first essay studies the impact of changing … trade flows to such an extent that the relatively moderate tariff reductions since WW II can explain the strong growth of … world trade. The second essay investigates the sector and country determinants of the range of goods that countries export …

The classical Heckscher-Ohlin-Mundell paradigm states that trade and capital mobility are substitutes, in the sense … that trade integration reduces the incentives for capital to flow to capital-scarce countries. In this paper we show that … financially developed economies (South), trade and capital mobility are complements. Within a dynamic framework, the …

to city planning students: location theory, the interplay between externalities and zoning, international trade and … Good and Externality Theory in Practice; Location Theory and the Economic Rationale of Cities; Globalization, Trade and …

trade and globalization, and housing finance. Few incoming students have had prior exposure to these topics.The first two …