ARE 231
Topics in
International Trade and the Environment
Tuesdays, 3-6 pm, 201
Giannini Hall
Professor Ann
Harrison
329 Giannini Hall
Office Hours:
Tuesday, 10-11:30
E-mail address:
harrison@are.berkeley.edu
This
is a graduate course focusing on the empirical aspects of international trade,
foreign investment, and the environment. The first half of the course will be
taught by Ann Harrison, while the second half of the course will be taught by
Michael Hanemann. Students wishing to only attend one half of the course may
do so.
The
sessions on empirical trade will focus on a variety of topics, including
openness and growth, trade orientation and firm performance, the pattern of
trade, labor markets and trade, and gravity models. Sections of Rob Feenstraís
book, Advanced International Trade: Theory and Evidence, due out any time, will be assigned wherever
they are relevant. The chapters may be downloaded from Rob Feenstraís website,
at http://www.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/fzfeens/textbook.html.
Due to time constraints, we may not complete all the topics on the course
outline below. In particular, we may cut short the discussion on the pattern
of trade. The only requirement for the course will be a paper. Students may
choose a topic of their choice on empirical international trade or the
environment.
Outline for
Sessions on International Trade
1. Openness and
Growth
- David
Renelt and Ross Levine, ìA Sensitivity Analysis of Cross-Country Growth
Regressionsî, American Economic Growth, September 1992, 82(4): 942-63
- Rodriquez
and Rodrik, 2000, ìTrade Policy and Economic Growth: A Skepticís Guide to
the Cross-National Evidenceî, in Ben S. Bernanke and Kenneth Rogoff, eds.,
NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2000, 261-325
- A.
Harrison, 1996, ìOpenness and Growthî, Journal of Development Economics
48, 419-447.
- Frankel,
Jeff and David Romer, 1999, ìDoes Trade Cause Growth?î, American Economic
Review 89(3), 379-399.
- Chapter
10, Feenstra (2003)
- William
Easterly and Ross Levine, ìTropics, Germs and Crops: How Endowments
Influence Economic Developmentî, NBER Working Paper 9106, August 2002.
2. Trade Orientation
and Performance
- Harrison,
A, ìProductivity, Imperfect Competition, and Trade Reform: Theory and
Evidenceî, Journal of International Economics, February, 36/(1/3), 53-73.
- Levinsohn,
J, 1993, ìTesting the Imports-As-Market-Discipline Hypothesis,î Journal of
International Economics, August, 35(1/2), 1-22.
- Steven
Berry, James Levinsohn, and Ariel Pakes, ìVoluntary Export Restraints on
Automobiles: Evaluating a Trade Policyî, American Economic Review Vol 89,
No. 3 (June), 1999.
- Nina
Pavcnik, ìTrade Liberalization, Exit, and Productivity Improvement:
Evidence from Chilean Plantsî, Review of Economic Studies, January 2002,
69(1): 245-76
- S.
Clerides, S. Lach, and James Tybout, ìIs ëLearning-by-Exporting Important?
Micro-Dynamic Evidence from Colombia, Mexico, and Moroccoî, Quarterly
Journal of Economics August 1998; 113(3); 903-47.
- Andrew
Bernard and Bradford Jensen, ìExceptional Exporter Performance: Cause,
Effect, or Both?î, Journal of International Economics, February 1999;
47(1):1-25.
- Jagadeesh
Sirivadsan, Job Market Paper, University of Chicago, 2004, available at
http://home.uchicago.edu/~jmsivada/
-
The Pattern of Trade (2 sessions)
- Chapter
2, Feenstra (2003)
- D.
Trefler, ìThe Case of Missing Trade and Other Mysteries,î American
Economic Review, December, 85(5), 1029-1046.
- J.
Harrigan, 1997, ìTechnology, Factor Supplies and International
Specialization: Estimating the Neoclassical Modelî, American Economic
Review, 87(4), September, 475-494.
- D.
Davis and D. Weinstein, December 2001, ìAn Account of Global Factor Trade,
American Economic Review, 91(5), 1423-1453.
4. Income
Inequality, Poverty, and Globalization
- Sala-i-martin,
Xavier, ìThe Disturbing ëRiseí of Global Income Inequalityî, NBER Working
Paper 8904, April 2002.
For
a recent discussion in the popular press, see http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/005/focus/Mind_the_gap+.shtml
- Jed
and James Levinsohn, ìThe Distributional Impacts of Indonesiaís Financial
Crisis on Household Welfare: A ëRapid Responseí Methodologyî, Forthcoming,
World Bank Ecoomic Review.
- Dollar,
David and Aart Kraay, 2002, ìGrowth is Good for the Poorî, Journal of
Economic Growth, forthcoming. [See Dani Rodrikís critique on his home
page]
- Shaohua
Chen and Martin Ravallion, ìHousehold Welfare Impact of Chinaís Accession
to the WTOî, Forthcoming, 2002.
- Sections
from Surjit Bhallaís book, Imagine Thereís No Country: Poverty,
Inequality, and Growth in the Era of Globalization, Institute for
International Economics, 2002.
- Orazio
Attanasio, Pinelopi Goldberg, and Nina Pavcnik, ìTrade Reform and Income
Inequality in Colombia,î March 2002, Nina Pavcnikís home page.
- ìThe
Response of the Informal Sector to Trade Liberalizationî, Pinelopi
Goldberg and Nina Pavcnik, December 2002, Nina Pavcnikís home page.
- Various
papers from recent NBER pre-conference on Globalization and Trade
5. Labor Markets
and Trade
- Chapter
4, Feenstra (2003)
- Eric
Edmonds and Nina Pavcnik, ìDoes Globalization Increase Child Labor?
Evidence from Vietnamî, NBER Working Paper 8760, January 2002.
- Slaughter,
Matt, 2001, ìInternational Trade and Labor-Demand Elasticitiesî, Journal
of International Economics, 54, 27-56
- J
Currie and Ann Harrison, ìSharing the costs: the Impact of Trade Reform on
Capital and Labor in Moroccoî, Journal of Labor Economics Vol 15, Number
3, Part 2, July 1997.
- Ana
Revenga, ìExporting Jobs? The Impact of Import Competition on employment
and Wages in U.S. Manufacturingî, Quarterly Journal of Economics 107
(1992): 255-84
- Lael
Brainard and David Riker, ìUS Multinationals and Competition from Low Wage
Countriesî, NBER Working Paper 5959, March 1997.
- Lael
Brainard and David Riker, ìAre US Multinationals Exporting US Jobs?î, NBER
Working Paper 5958, March 1997.
- Blom,
Goldberg, Pavcnik, and Schady, ìTrade Liberalization and Labor Market
Adjustment in Brazil, October 2002, Nina Pavcnikís home page.
- Ann
Harrison and Jason Scorse, ìThe Nike Effect: Anti-Sweatshop Activists and
Labor Market Outcomes in Indonesiaî
6. Foreign Direct
Investment (FDI)
- Aitken,
Brian and Ann E. Harrison, 1999, ìDo Domestic ìFirms Benefit from Foreign
Investment? Evidence from Venezuela,î American Economic Review, 89,
605-618.
- Aitken,
Brian, A. Harrison and R. Lipsey, 1996, ìWages and Foreign Ownership: A
Comparative Study of Mexico, Venezuela, and the United Statesî, Journal of
International Economics, 40 (3/4), 345-371.
- Feenstra
and Hanson, 1999, ìForeign Direct Investment and Relative Wages: Evidence
from Mexicoís Maquiladorasî, Journal of International Economics 42(3/4),
May, 371-393
- Chapter
11, Feenstra (2003)
- Feenstra
and Hanson, 1999, ìThe Impact of Outsourcing and High-Technology Capital
on Wages: Estimates for the U.S., 1979-1990, Quarterly Journal of
Economics, August, 114(3), 907-940.
- Beata
Smarzynska, ìDoes Foreign Direct Investment Increase the Productivity of
Domestic Firms? In Search of Spillovers Through Backward Linkagesî,
Working Paper, World Bank, 2003.
7. Trade, Foreign
Investment, and the Environment
- G.
Grossman and A. Krueger, ìEconomic Growth and the Environmentî, QJE, 1995,
353-377
- G.
Eskeland and A. Harrison, ìMoving to Greener Pastures? Multinationals and
the Pollution Haven Hypothesisî, Forthcoming, Journal of Development
Economics
- Antweiler,
W., B. Copeland and M. Scott Taylor, ìIs Free Trade Good for the Environment?î,
American Economic Review, 91, No. 4, September 2001, 877-908.
- J.
Frankel and A. Rose, ìIs Trade Good or Bad for the Environment? Sorting
Out the Causalityî, NBER Working Paper 9201, September 2002
- Millimet
and John List, ìThe Case of the Missing Pollution Haven Hypothesisî,
University of Maryland Working Paper, 2003.
- Judy
Dean, Mary Lovely, Hua Wang, ìForeign Direct Investment and Pollution
Havens: Evaluating the Evidence from Chinaî, working paper, December 2003
- ìUnmasking
the Pollution Haven Effectî, Arik Levinsohn and Scott Taylor, Working
Paper, 2003.