ISSUES IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: ECON 464 , 310 , and (MATH 217 or 221 ); or graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Social & Behavioral Science Breadth - Social Science Level - Advanced L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2024 Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand the motives for multinational production: theories of horizontal, vertical, and export platform foreign direct investment. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Evaluate the potential benefits and costs of hosting a multinational corporation. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Access and analyze data on international trade and production. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Apply boundary-of-the-firm theories to determine what factors influence outsourcing decisions. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Demonstrate an understanding of models of investment under uncertainty Audience: Graduate 6. Write computer programs to solve multinational decision problems and use the models to analyze the ways that optimal behavior depends on parameter values Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand the motives for multinational production: theories of horizontal, vertical, and export platform foreign direct investment. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Evaluate the potential benefits and costs of hosting a multinational corporation. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Access and analyze data on international trade and production. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Apply boundary-of-the-firm theories to determine what factors influence outsourcing decisions. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Demonstrate an understanding of models of investment under uncertainty Audience: Graduate 6. Write computer programs to solve multinational decision problems and use the models to analyze the ways that optimal behavior depends on parameter values Audience: Graduate