TOPICS IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE (ECON 466a)

WEEKLY READING LIST

FALL 2004

Lecture 1: Overview of basic issues in trade, econometrics and data interpretation

• Revenga, A., "Exporting jobs? The impact of import competition on employment and wages in U.S. manufacturing," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1992

Lecture 2: Trade and the Rise in Wage Inequality in the U.S.

• Sachs, J. and H. Shatz, "Trade and jobs in U.S. manufacturing," Brooking Papers on Economic Activity, 1994
• Lawrence, R. and M. Slaughter, "Trade and U.S. wages: great sucking sound or small hiccup?," Brooking Papers on Economics, 1993

Lecture 3: Trade and wages in developing countries

• Goldberg, P. and N. Pavcnik, "Trade, Wages, and the Political Economy of Trade Protection: Evidence from the Colombian Trade Reforms, Yale, 2003
• Feenstra, R. and G. Hanson, "Foreign direct investment and relative wages: evidence from Mexico's maquiladoras," Journal of International Economics, 1997
• Porto, G., "Using survey data to assess the distributional effects of trade policy," Worldbank, 2003

Lecture 4: Foreign direct investment

• Press articles (see course assignments website)
• Lipsey, R. "Foreign Direct Investment and the Operations of Multinational Firms: Concepts, History, and Data," Handbook of International Trade, J. Harrigan and K. Choi eds., 2004
• Markusen, J., "The Boundaries of Multinational Enterprises and the Theory of International Trade," Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1995
• Hanson G., R. Mataloni and M. Slaughter, "Expansion Strategies of US Multinational Firms," in Dani Rodrik and Susan Collins (eds) Brookings Trade Forum 2001, 2001
• Brainard, L., "An empirical assessment of the proximity-concentration trade-off between multinational sales and trade," American Economic Review, 1997

Lecture 5: The effect on U.S. wages of outsourcing and immigration

• Press articles (course assignments website)
• Feenstra, R. and G. Hanson: "The impact of outsourcing and high technology capital on wages: estimation for the United States 1979-1990," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1999
• Card, D., "The impact of the Mariel Boatlift on the Miami labor market," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1990

Lecture 6: Openness and welfare in developing countries

• Press articles (course assignments website)
• Harrison, A., "The Nike effect: anti-sweatshop activists and labor market outcomes in Indonesia," Berkeley, 2004
• Edmonds, E. and N. Pavcnik, "The Relationship between Product Market Integration and Child Labor Supply: Evidence from Vietnam," forthcoming Journal of International Economics, 2004

Lecture 7: Do more open economies grow faster?

• Sachs, J. and A. Warner, "Economic Reform and the Process of Global Integration," Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1995
• Rodriguez and Rodrik, "Trade Policy and Economic Growth: a Skeptic's Guide to the Cross-National Evidence," Macroeconomics Annual 2000, eds. B. Bernanke and K. Rogoff, MIT Press for NBER, Cambridge, MA, 2001
• Dollar, D. and A. Kraay, "Trade, growth and poverty," Economic Journal, 2004

Lecture 8: Political economy of industry protection

• Baldwin, R. "The Political Economy of Trade Policy," Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1989
• Trefler, D. "Trade Liberalization and the Theory of Endogenous Protection: An Econometric Study of U.S. Import Policy," Journal of Political Economy, 1993
• Goldberg, P. and G. Maggi, "Protection for sale: an empirical investigation", American Economic Review, 1999
• Baldwin, R. and C. Magee (1998): "Is trade policy for sale? Congressional voting on recent trade bills, NBER Working Papers, 6376

• Gawande, K. P. Sanguinetti and A. Bohara, "Exclusion for sale: evidence on the Grossman-Helpman theory of free trade agreements," forthcoming Journal of International Economics

   

Lecture 9: Foreign Lobbies

• Kee, H.L., M. Olarreaga and P. Silva, "Market access for sale: Latin America's lobbying for U.S. tariff preferences," The World Bank, 2004

• Gawande, K., P. Krishna and M. Robbins, "Foreign lobbies and U.S. trade policy NBER Working Papers 10205, 2004

Lecture 10: Is There Learning by Exporting or from FDI?

• Clerides, S., S. Lach and J. Tybout, "Is learning by exporting important? Micro-dynamic evidence from Colombia, Mexico, and Morocco," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1998
• Bernard, A. and B. Jensen, "Exceptional exporter performance: cause, effect, or both?," Journal of International Economics, 1999
• Keller, W. and S. Yeaple, "Multinational enterprises, international trade and productivity growth: firm-level evidence from the US," CEPR Discussion Paper No. 3805, 2003

Lecture 11: Do domestic firms become more productive after a trade reform?

• Harrison, A., "Productivity, imperfect competition and trade reform. Theory and evidence," Journal of International Economics, 1994
• Aw, B.Y., X. Chen, and M. Roberts, "Firm-level evidence on productivity differentials and turnover in Taiwanese manufacturing," Journal of Development Economics, 2001
• Tybout, R. and D. Westbrook, "Trade liberalization and the dimensions of efficiency change in Mexican manufacturing industries," Journal of International Economics, 1995

Lecture 12: Presentation of projects for course paper

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