This is a four units course with three hours of lecture and one hour
of discussion per week. Information on the course, including office hours,
past assignments and examinations, required readings, and current assignments
are available from the course's homepage on the Internet at the following
address:
Section 102, Tuesday, 9-10am, 285 Cory, Petra
Section 103, Thursday, 3-4pm,105 Stanley, Doug
Section 104, Thursday, 4-5pm, 71 Evans, Doug
Section 105, Monday, 3-4pm, C 335 Cheit, Jose
Section 106, Monday, 4-5pm, CANCELLED
Section 107, Wednesday, 3-4pm, 219 Gilman, Jose
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Assignments will be given to the students two weeks before the due date.
The text can also be retrieved from the course homepage. Late homeworks
loose 2 points (out of 7) per day (note that assignments are late whenever
submitted later than 12:40 pm on the due date). Assignment 5 will not be
accepted late. Late homeworks must be handed directly to your TA or to
professor Sadoulet, not left in TA mailboxes. Acknowledgment of receipt
of homeworks will be posted on the homepage within 48 hours. Answers to
the homeworks will be posted on the homepage one week after their due date.
For a missed mid-term, the student will take the mid-term as an open book take home examination. If the answers are of A quality, the final examination will be counted for 72% of the grade instead of 45. Failure of the above will result in a 0 score for the mid-term.
For a missed final exam, an "incomplete" grade will be given for the
class. The student will have to take the final exam at another session.
Econ 181 classes are regularly offered in summer and fall sessions every
year. Failure of the above will result in a 0 score for the final.
| Exercises: Four times 7 percent = 28 percent
Mid-term: 27 percent Final: 45 percent. |
Doug Almond: Evans 608-2, Friday 2-4pm; almond@econ.berkeley.edu
Jose Lopez-Cordova: Evans 608-8, Friday 2-4pm; jelopez@econ.berkeley.edu
Petra Moser: Evans , Friday 2-4pm; moser@econ.berkeley.edu
| Week 1 | Issues in international trade |
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The Economist: "War of the Worlds", October 1994, pp.1-5 | ||
| Weeks 1–2 | Labor productivity and comparative advantage: the Ricardian Model |
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Krugman: "What do Undergrads need to Know About Trade" American Economic Review, May 1993 | ||
| Weeks 3–4 | Specific factors and income distribution |
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New York Times: Crawfish Wars: Cajun Country vs. China 5/7/97 | ||
| Weeks 4-5 | Resources and trade: The Heckscher-Ohlin model |
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The Economist: "The War of the Worlds", October 1994, pp.14-19 | ||
| Week 6 | Guest speaker: Harley Shaiken | ||||
| Week 7 | The standard trade model |
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| Weeks 8-9 | Economies of scale, imperfect competition, and international trade |
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| Weeks 9-10 | International factor movements and foreign direct investment |
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| Week 11 | Instruments of trade policy |
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New York Times: Europe’s Banning of Treated Beef is Ruled Illegal" 5/9/97. | ||
| Week 12 | The political economy of trade policy |
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Newsweek: "The BananaWars" 4/28/97. | ||
| Week 13 | Trade and the environment, by David Zibermann | Reader: "Environmental Aspects of Economic Relations Between Nations". | |||
| Week 13 | Trade policy in developing countries |
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| Weeks 14-15 | Strategic trade policies in advanced countries |
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