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Lecture Notes

SES # TOPICS ADDITIONAL FIGURES
I. Introduction: Trade facts and gains from trade
1 Trade facts and gains from trade (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)  
II. Technological differences: Ricardian models
2 Technological differences: Ricardian models (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)  
3 Eaton and Kortum's (2003) Ricardian model (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)  
III. Factor endowment differences: Heckscher-Ohlin
4 The 2x2x2 Heckscher-Ohlin model: Part I (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)  
5 The 2x2x2 Heckscher-Ohlin model: Part II (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)  
6 The generalized Heckscher-Ohlin model (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)  
IV. Empirical tests of the Heckscher-Ohlin model
7 Empirical tests of the Heckscher-Ohlin model (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF) (PDF)
V. Intermediate input trade and wage inequality
8 Intermediate input trade and wage inequality (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)  
VI. Imperfect competition: Theory
9 Trade, external scale economics and oligopoly (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)  
10 Trade and monopolistic competition (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)  
VII. Imperfect competition: Empirics
11 Trade and monopolistic competition: Empirics (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF) (PDF)
VIII. Firm heterogeneity
12 Intraindustry heterogeneity in trade models: Part I (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)  
13 Intraindustry heterogeneity in trade models: Part II (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)  
IX. Multinational firms
14 Technological theories of foreign direct investment (FDI) (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)  
X. International organization of production
15 The transaction-cost approach in international trade (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)  
16 The property-rights approach in international trade (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)  
XI. Dynamics of international trade
17 Dynamic trade theory I: Trade and neoclassical growth (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)  
18 Dynamic trade theory II: Trade, technology, and growth (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)  
19 Dynamic trade theory III: Innovation, technology transfer, and product cycles (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)  
XII. Trade policy
20 Trade policy I: Determinants of the structure of protection (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)  
21 Trade policy II: Tariff retaliation and the World Trade Organization (WTO) (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)  
22 Trade policy III: Regionalism versus multilateralism (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)