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ECUE International trade

ECUE's code : ILEEIX6

This course belong to UE Economie internationale (6 ECTS) which contains 3 ECUE
PORTAIL ECONOMIE GESTION
Sciences économiques
Campus Saint Jean d'Angély
Licence 3
Semestre pair
Anglais

PRESENTATION

This course details the main trade theories that have been developed since the 19th century, and reviews the main changes in international trade and globalization that called for a continuous renewal of these explanations for international trade.

This course is taught in English, so are the TDs. Due to the small effective, we opt for a continuous assessment.

Course's manager(s)

Charlie Joyez

In class

  • 20h of lectures
  • 10.5h of directed studies

PREREQUISITES

No prerequisite

OBJECTIVES

By the end of this course, I should be able to...
  • explain how evolved international trade since the industrial revolution up untill the 2020s
  • Differentiate several types of trade, and associate their rationale with the appropriate theoretical model and main authors
  • Explain how multinationals reshaped world trade, and know the current issues in international trade

CONTENT

  • Stylized facts about globalization :

    When did it start?

    Has it been constant?

    What are the main recent shifts?

  • What were the first economic theories developed to explain international trade?

    The Ricardian Model

    The HOS Model

    What type of trade to they (fail to) explain?

  • New Trade Theories refer to Krugman's input in explaining international trade.

    Why some additional explanation were needed? What's the Krugman's Model How does it articulate with Traditional Trade Theories?

  • The new new trade theories were developped in the early 2000s to explain how firm-level behavior matches with the stylized facts underlined by the Krugman model.

     

  • At last, we will review the last major shift in international trade : the rise of multinational firms and what it implies

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