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Trade in the Global Economy I | Structures and plans of this lectures are provided | ![]() |
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Trade in the Global Economy II | Overviews history of international trade | ![]() |
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Trade in the Global Economy III | Discusses important articles and major activities of GATT and WTO | ![]() |
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Ricardian Model I | Basic concepts of the model - opportunity cost and comparative advantage, in particular- are explained | ![]() |
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Ricardian Model II | Overviews main concept of production possiblity frontier. | ![]() |
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Ricardian Model III | Explains what indifference curve is about and how domestic equilibrium is made without trade | ![]() |
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Ricardian Model IV | Explains how each country gains from trade by specializing the goods in which it has a comparative advantage. | ![]() |
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Specific Factors Model I | Explains how this model is similar to or different from the Ricardian Model in terms of diminishing marginal products. | ![]() |
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Specific Factors Model II | Reviews microeconomic theories used in the Specific Factors Model | ![]() |
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Specific Factors Model III | Understand gains and losses from trade by analyzing output and input price changes made by trade when capital is fixed in each sector as a specific factor | ![]() |
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Hecksher-Ohlin Model I | Explains basic assumptions of the model, including factor intensity and factor abundance, and go over relative labor demand | ![]() |
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Hecksher-Ohlin Model II | Understand gains losses from trade in the long-run when capital is mobile across sectors by analyzing output and input price changes made by trade | ![]() |
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Problem Set Review: Ricardian Model | Reviews problem set questions for the Ricardian Model | ![]() |
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Problem Set Review : Specific Factors Model and Hecksher Ohlin Model | Reviews problem set questions for the shor-run Specific Factors Model and long-run Hecksher-Ohlin Model | ![]() |
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Movement of Labor and Capital Between Countries I | Understands the short-run effect of immigration on domestic output level and real wage | ![]() |
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Movement of Labor and Capital Between Countries II | Understands the long-run effect of international factor movements on domestic output level and factor prices and derives the Rybczynski Theorem | ![]() |
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Movement of Labor and Capital Between Countries III | Reviews problem set questions | ![]() |
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New Trade Theory I | Compares the New Trade Theory with traditional ones from the aspects of economic models and gains from trade, and shed light on Krugmans contribution | ![]() |
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New Trade Theory II | As one pillar of the New Trade Theory, this lecture explains monopolistic competition from microeconomic aspects | ![]() |
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New Trade Theory III | As another pillar of the New Trade Theory, this lecture explains increasing returns to scale. The concept of elasticity is also added. | ![]() |
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New Trade Theory IV | Discusses what happens before and after trade, and explains gains from trade for consumers and producers | ![]() |
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Tariff I | Begins a chapter on trade policies and introduce a case study on the U.S. steel tariff to discuss the political economy of imposing tariffs | ![]() |
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Tariff II | Reviews basic concepts of consumer surplus, producer surplus, efficiency, and the first fundamental theorem of welfare economics as tools for analyzing the effect of imposing tariff | ![]() |
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Tariff III | Explains gains and losses of imposing tariff by comparing consumer surplus, government revenue, and deadweight loss. | ![]() |
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Tariff IV | Explains the effect of imposing tariffs on large countries and seeks numerical solutions for the dead-weight loss | ![]() |
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Game Theoretic Approach I | Explians basic elements of a game and principles of the prisoners dilemma | ![]() |
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Game Theoretic Approach II | Explains pure strategies, mixed strategies, and multiple Nash Equilibriium | ![]() |
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Game Theoretic Approach III | Analyze the effect of tariffs and export subsidies using game theories | ![]() |
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WTO and Trade Policies I | Reviews major GATT articles and legal grounds for the so-called 3 remedies | ![]() |
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WTO and Trade Policies II | Reviews legal grounds for safeguards and find examples | ![]() |
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WTO and Trade Policies III | Reiviews legal grounds for anti-dumping duties and counterveiling duties | ![]() |
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WTO and Trade Policies IV | Reviews WTO is rules of origin | ![]() |
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WTO and Trade Policies V | Read Ch. 3 of "Bad Samaritans" written by Prof. Ha-Joon Chang as alternatives views | ![]() |
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Introduction to Macroeconomics I | Introduces Macroeconomics as opposed to Microeconomics and explains GDP, consumption, investment, and government spending | ![]() |
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Introduction to Macroeconomics II | Overviews equilibrium in the goods market and examines how C, I, and G affect Y. | ![]() |
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Introduction to Macroeconomics III | Find equilibrium in the money market through its demand supply and examines relationship between money supply and interest rate | ![]() |
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Macroeconomic Policies I | Investigates how fiscal and monetary policies (both expansionary and contractionary) affect equilibria in the goods market and money market, and introduces the crowd-out effect | ![]() |
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Macroeconomic Policies II | Compares the floating exchange rate scheme with the fixed on, and examines the relationship between exchange rates and macroeconomic policies | ![]() |
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Macroeconomic Policies III | Studies several cases for the international macroeconomic policies | ![]() |