Lecturer

dott. Paolo Ermano paolo.ermano@uniud.it

Credits

9 CFU

Department

Department of Economics and Statistics

Programme

1. Introduction
2. World Trade: An Overview
3. Labor Productivity and Comparative Advantage: The Ricardian Model
4. Specific Factors and Income
5. Resources and Trade: The Heckscher-Ohlin Model
6. The Standard Trade Model
7. External Economics of Scale and the International Location of Production?
8. Firms in the Global Economy: Export Decisions, Outsourcing, and Multinational Enterprises
9. The Instruments of Trade Policy
10. The Political Economy of Trade Policy
11. Trade Policy in Developing Countries
12. Controversies in Trade Policy

Bibliography

Krugman, Obstfeld & Melitz, International Economics, global edition – 9° edition, Pearson International