TD Commerce International

Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne — Spring Semester 2016

This TD follows the M1 Commerce International course taught by Lionel Fontagné and Maria Bas. Class attendence is mandatory and reading the suggested articles in advance is highly recommended.

Find a syllabus here and the papers here.

Schedule:

• Week 1: Introduction and overview (January 21)
• Slides
• Week 2: Ricardian comparative advantage (February 4)
• Eaton and Kortum (2002): presentation group 3, presentation group 4
• Costinot, Donaldson and Komunjer (2012): presentation group 3, presentation group 4
• Week 3: HOV works! (February 10 (TD3024I) and February 11 (TD4024I))
• Davis and Weinstein (2001): presentation group 3, presentation group 4
• Trefler (1995): presentation group 3, presentation group 4
• Week 4: Market Access and gravity (February 10 (TD3024I) and February 11 (TD4024I))
• de Sousa, Mayer and Zignago (2012): presentation group 3, presentation group 4
• Baier and Bergstrand (2007): presentation group 3, presentation group 4
• Week 5: Empirical Facts on Firms (February 11)
• Bernard et al. (2007): presentation group 3, presentation group 4
• Mayer and Ottaviano (2007): presentation group 3, presentation group 4
• Week 6: Heterogeneous firms theory (February 11)
• Chaney (2008): presentation group 3, presentation group 4
• Melitz and Ottaviano (2008): presentation group 3, presentation group 4
• Week 7: Inside exporter's productivity (March 14 (TD4024I) and March 30 (TD3024I))
• Antras and Helpman (2004): presentation group 3, presentation group 4
• Helpman et al. (2004): presentation group 3, presentation group 4
• Week 8: Beyond Selection effects of trade openness (March 31)
• Goldberg et al. (2009): presentation group 3, presentation group 4
• Pavcnik (2002): presentation group 3, presentation group 4
• Week 9: Quality and trade (April 7)
• Manova and Zhang (2012): presentation group 4
• Verhoogen (2008): presentation group 3, presentation group 4
• Kugler and Verhoogen (2012): presentation group 3
• Week 10: The impact of trade and offshoring on workers (April 14)
• Ebenstein et al. (2014): presentation group 3, presentation group 4
• Biscourp and Kramarz (2007): presentation group 3, presentation group 4
• Harrison and McMillan (2006): presentation group 4
• Week 11: Geography and Income (April 16)
• Redding and Venables (2004): presentation group 3, presentation group 4
• Limao and Venables (2001): presentation group 3, presentation group 4
• Week 12: The proximity concentration trade off (April 16)
• Markusen and Venables (1998): presentation group 3, presentation group 4
• Brainard (1997): presentation group 3, presentation group 4

Tutorial taught and website maintained by Julian Hinz.