Econ 8401: International
Trade and Payments Theory
Fall 2011
Thomas J. Holmes and Timothy J. Kehoe
Course
home page: http://www.econ.umn.edu/~tkehoe/classes/8401-11.html
Mon Oct 31
James E. Anderson and Eric van Wincoop,
“Gravity with Gravitas: A Solution
to the Border Puzzle,” The American Economic Review, Vol. 93, No. 1 (Mar.,
2003), pp. 170-192
Eaton and Kortum,
"Technology in the Global Economy: A Framework for Quantitative
Analysis" manuscript.
Mon Nov. 7
Andrew
B. Bernard; Jonathan Eaton; J. Bradford Jensen; Samuel Kortum,
“Plants and Productivity in
International Trade The American
Economic Review, Vol. 93, No. 4. (Nov., 2003), pp.
1268-1290.
Costas Arkolakis,
Arnaud Costinot, Andrés Rodríguez-Clare,
"New
Trade Models, Same Old Gains?" working paper, Sept 6, 2010.
Mon. Nov. 14
Atkeson, Andrew, and Ariel
Burstein.
2008. "Pricing-to-Market,
Trade Costs, and International Relative Prices." American Economic
Review, 98(5): 1998–2031.
Holmes, Thomas, Wen-Tai
Hsu, and Sanghoon Lee," Monopoly Distortions and the Welfare Gains from
Trade," Nov. Manuscript.
Mon. Nov.
21
A Look at
Regional Economics
Gabriel Ahlfedlt, Steven
Redding, Daniel Sturm and Nikolaus Wolf, "The Economics
of Density: Evidence from the Berlin Wall, working paper
Stephen Redding and Daniel Sturm, "The Costs
of Remoteness: Evidence from German Division and Reunification"
American Economic Review, 98(5), 1766-1797, 2008
Background:
Robert E. Lucas Jr. and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, "On the Internal Structure of Cities,"
Econometrica , Vol. 70, No. 4 (Jul., 2002), pp. 1445-1476
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg and
Mark L. J. Wright, "Urban
Structure and Growth," The Review of Economic Studies
, Vol. 74, No. 2 (Apr., 2007), pp. 597-624
J. V. Henderson, " The
Sizes and Types of Cities," The
American Economic Review , Vol. 64, No. 4 (Sep., 1974), pp. 640-656
Mon. Nov 28
Trade and
Productivity
Alla Lileeva And Daniel Trefler,
"Improved
Access To Foreign Markets Raises Plant-Level Productivity... For Some Plants,"
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 2010
Jan De Loecker,"Product Differentiation, Multi-Product Firms and Estimating the Impact of Trade Liberalization on Productivity
, 2011, Econometrica, Vol. 79, No. 5 (September), 1407–1451.