International Trade
ARE has expanded its teaching and research in international trade and Ph.D. students can now take trade as their major field. The department is an excellent place to undertake graduate research on economic globalization including:
- trade
- foreign investment
- migration
- international environmental agreements
- intellectual property regimes.
Students can take advantage of the breadth and depth of faculty in ARE and in other Berkeley departments. By drawing on the expertise of ARE's excellent theoretical and empirical trade economists, as well as its applied econometricians, graduate students can produce top quality work on this complex and important topic.
Students interested in the linkages between economic globalization and policy, development, or environmental issues can draw on ARE's expertise in these areas, and may wish to make one of these their minor field. ARE faculty also work on questions related to labor and trade or foreign investment, and bring insights from behavioral economics to bear on questions of international policy. Students interested in this sort of work may wish to take labor or psychology in economics as a minor field through the Economics department.
