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Dec 14: Last Class See Review Dec 9: Environment, Labor Standards and Trade The Issues Environment Labor Standards Role of WTO Environment Negative Externalities International Issues Labor Standards What Are They? Should They Be Promoted? Should They Be Linked to Trade? Dec 7: Outsourcing / Offshoring Definitions Effects Like Trade Unlike Trade Facts Policies Dec 2: Globalization and Inequality Symptoms of Globalization Global Markets for Goods Global Markets for Capital Global Markets for Factors Fragmentation Non-traded Goods and Factors What Has Happened to Wages? Explanations of the Rising Skill Premium Labor Supply? Globalization Trade Liberalization Growth in Poor Countries Technology Nov 30: International Policies for Economic Development: Financial The Issues Choice of Exchange Rate Regimes Pros and Cons of Free Capital Movements Debt Problems of the 1980s The Asian Crisis of 1997 Pros and Cons of Aid, Bailouts, Debt Forgiveness Nov 23: International Policies for Economic Development: Trade The Issues The Washington Consensus Special Problems of Developing Countries Pros and Cons of Free Trade for LDCs Infant Industry Argument Other Objections to Free Trade Exports and Growth Track Record of Import Substitution Policy Recommendations Nov 18: Exam Nov 16: Regional Integration, Trade What Are PTAs? Examples European Union (EU) North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Effects of PTAs Not the Same as Free Trade Trade Creation Trade Diversion Illustration NAFTA History Analysis Beforehand Evaluation Afterward Nov 11: Visit by John W. Sweetland Nov 9: Fixed versus Floating Exchange Rates Both Systems Are Used What the "Experts" Recommend Pros and Cons of Floating Disruption When Rates Move Automatic Adjustment Pros and Cons of Pegging Stability Instability Alternatives Crawling Peg Monetary Unification Nov 4: Macroeconomic Policies in International Context Recall Macro from Econ 102 Aggregate Supply and Demand Policies Effects ON the Exchange Market Expansion Interest Rate Effects OF the Exchange Market Depreciation via Trade Depreciation via Net Wealth Effects THROUGH the Exchange Market Nov 2: Pegging the Exchange Rate How It's Done Market Intervention Bands of Flucuation Hybrids of Pegged and Floating Who Pegs? Mechanics of Intervention Reserves Money Supply Sterilization Effects of Pegging Oct 28: Economic Integration: Monetary (The Euro) No Outline. (Guest speaker Jay Levin) Oct 26: Exchange Rates In What Forms Are Exchange Rates Reported? Bilateral Nominal Rates Multilateral (Trade-Weighted) Rates Real Rates Forward Rates What Determines Exchange Rates? Markets Governments/Central Banks Theories of Exchange Rates Purchasing Power Parity Asset Theory Supply and Demand Model Oct 21: The Balance of Trade and International Transactions What is the Balance of Trade? What Does the Balance of Trade Not Mean? International Transactions Current Account Financial Account What Does the Balance of Trade Really Mean? From Balance of Payments Accounting From National Income Accounting Oct 18-19: Fall Break Oct 14: Exam Oct 12: International Movements of Capital Terminology FDI, DFI, MNEs, MNCs Real Versus Financial Capital Purposes Served by FDI Local Market versus Export Reasons for FDI Who Gains and Who Loses? Effects that are Similar to Trade Effects that are Similar to Migration Other Effects Oct 7: Migration Why People Migrate Why Wages Differ across Countries Effects of Migration On Payments to Factors Labor Other Other Effects Policies to Affect Migration The U.S. Experience Oct 5: World Trade Arrangements and the WTO International Organizations Related to Trade World Trade Organization History, as GATT GATT Rounds WTO Today Functions Current Issues Seattle Protests and Beyond Doha Round, Cancún Meeting Disputes Sep 30: U.S. Trade Policies and Institutions Parts of U.S. Government that Handle Trade We Do NOT Have a Trade Ministry What We DO Have Main Features of U.S. Trade Policies Tariffs, Quotas, VERs Escape Clause Unfair Trade Laws Trade Adjustment Assistance Fast Track Dumping and Anti-Dumping Why the U.S. Protects Trends in U.S. Trade Policy Sep 28: Reasons for Protection Reasons that Do NOT Make Economic Sense Pauper Labor Fairness Patriotism Retaliation Reasons that DO Make Economic Sense, with Counter-Arguments Revenue Optimal Tariff Infant Industry National Security Protect Favored Industry Retaliation... Sep 23: Nontariff Barriers What Are NTBs? Main Types Quotas Voluntary Export Restraints (VERs) Variable Levies Government Procurement Regulations Customs Procedures Standards Local Content Requirements Unfair Trade Laws Effects of Quotas Equivalent to a Tariff Who Gets the Rents? Sep 21: Tariffs What Are They? Who Uses Them? Effects of Tariffs Small Country Case Effects on quantities and prices Effects on economic welfare Large Country Case Effect on world price Effect on welfare Size of these Effects Sep 16: Modern Theories and Additional Effects of Trade Sources of Comparative Advantage The Heckscher-Ohlin Model Main Idea Intuition Does the Theory Work? Effects of Trade Changes in Production Factor Price Equalization The New Trade Theory Assumptions Implications Sep 14: Comparative Advantage and the Gains from Trade Why Countries Trade Price Differences Supply and Demand Determinants of Prices Ricardian Model of Trade Examples With Absolute Advantage With Comparative Advantage Wages and Prices in the Ricardian Model Lessons of the Ricardian Model Generality of Gains from Trade Sep 9: Institutions of the International Economy The Three Main Institutions IMF = International Monetary Fund World Bank WTO = World Trade Organization Why They Were Created, and When How They Have Changed Their Reputations Today Other Institutions United Nations OECD=Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Preferential Trading Arrangements What's Happening Now? Sep 7: International Economics Introduction and Overview Course Organization Overview of the World Economy Elements of the World Economy Ways that Countries Interact Trade Capital Flows Migration Policies that Affect Others