Course Information for Economics 165

Winter 2007-2008

ECONOMICS 165

International Economics

Classroom: Meyer Forum (Meyer Library Room 124). Time: 9:00-10:50, MW.

 

Professor Robert Staiger :    rstaiger@stanford.edu

Office: 322 Economics;  Phone: 723-0533 ;Office Hours: Monday 4-5:30.

TA: YanivYedid Levi: yanivyl@stanford.edu.

    Office: 225 Economics; Office Hours: Tuesday 3-5:00.


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Special Announcements:

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Professor Staiger's Office Hours for the week of 3/10-3/16. M: 4-5:30; Th: 4-5:30.

 

Yaniv's Office Hours for the week of 3/10-3/16: 

Usual office hours, Tuesday, 3 - 5 (bubble room Econ Bldg.)

 

Yaniv's Review Session:

Saturday (March 15) in Room 200 - 203:

   1 - 3 pm : A review session (most likely a short review of what we covered and solution to old final questions).

   3 - 5 pm: Extra Office Hours (based on past experience, we'll continue solving questions...)

 

  1. Slides for Lecture (February 7).
  2. Yaniv's lecture notes (February 7).

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Link to CourseWork

 
Reading List

 
Paper Topic 

 
Problem Sets
  1. Problem Set 1; Due in class, Wednesday, January 23. Answers.
  2. Problem Set 2; Due in class, Wednesday, January 30. Answers.
  3. Problem Set 3; Due in class, extra-class session Thursday, February 7. Answers.
  4. Problem Set 4; Due in class, Wednesday, February 13 (day of midterm). Answers.
  5. Problem Set 5; Due in class, Wednesday, March 12. Answers.
  6. Problem Set 6 (ignore Part I, problem number 4); Due in class, Monday, March 17 (day of final exam). Answers.

 
Current Exams
  1. Midterm; Answers. 
  2. Final; Answers. 

 
Old Exams
  1. Practice Midterm; Answers.
  2. Practice Final; Answers.

 
Completely-Non-Technical Articles
  1. Winners and Losers from Globalization 1; Winners and Losers from Globalization 2
  2. WTO World Trade Report 2007
  3. Iraq's bid for accession to the WTO (NPR audio)
  4. Chad Bown on Trade Disputes (NPR audio)
  5. Do you have to be a free-trader to support the WTO?
  6. National Sovereignty and the World Trading System
  7. Report on the International Trade Regime for the International Task Force on Global Public Goods
  8. What can Developing Countries Achieve in the WTO?
  9. A Fair Globalization
  10. Labor Standards and Trade Agreements
  11. Labor, Environment and the World Trading System
  12. Liberalizing Agriculture
  13. Fear of Offshoring
  14. 'Made in China' is Cheap No More

 
Not-Very-Technical Articles
  1. An Introduction to the WTO and GATT 
  2. The Economics of GATT: Making Economic Sense out of a "Mercantilist" Institution
  3. Economic Theory and the Interpretation of GATT/WTO 
  4. Canada Dairy Subsidies
  5. Strategic Trade, Competitive Industries and Agricultural Trade Disputes
  6. Trade Liberalization and Food Security
  7. Dispelling Some Misconceptions about Agricultural Trade Liberalization

 
More-Technical Articles
  1. An Empirical Assessment of the Comparative Advantage Gains from Trade
  2. NBER Working Paper 8083: The World Income Distribution 
  3. Trading Population for Productivity
  4. Aid, Dutch Disease and Manufacturing Growth
  5. NBER Working Paper No. 11947: What's so Special about China's Exports?
  6. NBER Working Paper 12033: Optimal Tariffs: The Evidence 
  7. How Large is the Bias Against Exports from Import Tariffs?
  8. NBER Working Paper 10834: Keeping Capital Flowing: The Role of the IMF
  9. Moving Up or Moving Out? Anti-Sweatshop Activists and Labor Market Outcomes 
  10. Strategic Trade, Competitive Industries and Agricultural Trade Disputes
  11. GATT-Think
  12. Measuring Industry-Specific Protection: Antidumping in the United States 
  13. Trade and Inequality in Developing Countries: A General Equilibrium Analysis 
  14. NBER Working Paper 9161: Winners and Losers over Two Centuries of Globalization
  15. Trade, Turnover, and Tithing
  16. DFS Article 

 
International Economics Links

Institutions

  1. WTO Home Page
  2. ALI Principles of Trade Law: The World Trade Organization
  3. World Bank Home Page
  4. IMF Home Page
  5. The World Bank Group: International Trade 
  6. Development Gateway: Trade and Development Page
  7. USTR Home Page

Data

  1. The Center for International Data at U.C. Davis
  2. International Trade Resources
  3. U.S. Antidumping Database
  4. Trade Polls
  5. World Bank Trade, Tariff and Production Data

Research

  1. NBER International Trade and Investment Program
  2. NBER International Finance and Macroeconomics Program 
  3. JSTOR
  4. Handbooks of Economics

General

  1. Harvard Global Trade Negotiations Home Page
  2. Joel Trachtman's International Economic Law and Policy Blog
  3. Nouriel Roubini's Global Macro and Financial Policy Site
  4. Institute for International Economics