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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This course covers, with a focus on both theory and empirics, advanced topics in international trade (as well as inter-regional trade and economic geography). It includes the study of positive issues, such as: Why do countries trade? What goods do countries trade? What are the implications of openness for the location of production, industr
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- economics
- international economics
- international trade
- ricardian model
- law of comparative advantage
- ricardo-viner model
- heckscher-ohlin model
- neoclassical trade theories
- monopolistic competition
- trade theory
- firm-level heterogeneity
- foreign investment
- gravity models
- trade and growth
- labor markets
- offshoring
- fragmentation of production
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This is a course for those who are interested in the challenge posed by massive and persistent world poverty, and are hopeful that economists might have something useful to say about this challenge. The questions we will take up include: Is extreme poverty a thing of the past? What is economic life like when living under a dollar per day? W
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- economics
- developing countries
- child labor
- randomized evaluations
- poverty and economic growth
- microfinance
- world bank and imf
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