Giuseppe De Arcangelis - Teaching

International Economics - PhD course 2010-11

ALERTS

1. Lecture slides online

Useful information:

Lecture schedule : May 9 (9:30-11), May 10 (11:30-13), May 16 (9:30-11, 11:30-13), May 17 (9:30-11, 11:30-13), May 27 (9:30-11, 11:30-13), May 31 (11:30-13)
Contact for appointments: g.dearcangelis@caspur.it

Lecture slides:

Introduction
Theories of comparative advantages (Ricardo-Torrens, 1817; Dornbush-Fisher-Samuelson, 1977; Eaton-Kortum, 2002)
The Hecksher-Ohlin Model
Theories of International Trade under Monopolistic Competition (Krugman, 1979 and 1980)
Firms Heterogeneity in International Trade (Melitz, 2003)
Factors' Mobility: Skilled Migration (Docquier-Rapoport, 2011)

Tentative syllabus and references

Useful stuff:

Notes by Andres Rodriguez-Clare on the derivation of the results in Eaton and Kortum (2002)
Notes on the Fréchet distribution (by Fernando Pérez Cervantes)
De Benedictis-Taglioni (2011, forthcoming), a review on the estimation of the gravity equation