HANDOUTS AND SLIDES

 

1    background and history

                    Trends in Economic Globalization

                    Globalization and Convergence in the Golden Age

 

2    Trade Policy: factors and sectors, voters and politicians

                    International Trade Theory

                    Trade and Redistribution

                    Collective Action

                    Further Reading:: textbook material 

                    Matilde Bombardini. 2008. "Firm Heterogeneity and Lobby Participation."  Journal of International Economics 75, 2 (July): 329-348.

 

3    trade Policy: Institutions

                     Delegation and Reciprocity

                    

4     International Capital Mobility

                     International Finance

                     Robert A. Mundell, "International Trade and Factor Mobility", 1957, AER

                     Further Reading: textbook material

5   Capital Mobility and Macroeconomic policy

                   Fixed Exchange Rates and Macroeconomic Policy

 

6    International Monetary Systems and Exchange rate regimes

                    Anatomy of a Currency Crisis: Mexico 1994

 

7   Foreign Direct Investment

                    Why do MNCs exist?

 

8    Migration AND ENVIRONMENT

                     Environment