Quantitative Analysis in International Trade

4.0 credits

Description: This is an advanced Ph.D level course on international trade. It covers recent quantitative work in the fields of international trade and spatial economics, broadly defined. We will develop theoretical models, evaluate their ability to capture key stylized facts, show how to estimate their parameters, and demonstrate their use in performing counterfactual analysis. We will cover quantitative general equilibrium frameworks for quantifying the welfare gains from trade, general equilibrium frameworks for trade policy analysis, spatial general equilibrium models of