Note: Student workload expectation: Students are expected to spend three hours per week (one hour for the preview and two hours for the review) studying this course.
Week1-6 Heterogeneous firms
Week7-12 Empirical Methods for International Microeconomics
Week13-18 Independent Research and Presentation
Tentative Schedule
2/23 Introduction
3/02 HF 1 CES demand and Linear demand/ Introduction
3/09 HF 2 Melitz (2003)
3/16 HF 3 Melitz (2003) (introduction note: Chaney 2008)
3/23 HF 4 Chaney (2008) (Introduction note: Eaton and Kortum (2002))
3/30 HF 5 Eaton and Kortum (2002)
4/06 HF 6 Eaton and Kortum (2002) (Introduction note: Bernard, A. B., Redding, S. J., & Schott, P. K. (2007). Comparative advantage and heterogeneous firms (RES))
4/13 EF 1 Basic Methods
4/20 MT week
4/27 EF 2 Basic Methods
5/04 EF 3 Bernard, Jensen, Redding, & Schott (2018), Global Firms (JEL)
5/11 EF 4 Bernard, Jensen, Redding, & Schott, P.K. (2007), Firms in International Trade (JEP)
5/18 EF 5 Bernard, Jensen, Redding, & Schott, P.K. (2012), The Empirics of Firms Heterogeneity and International Trade (Annual Review of Economics)
5/25 EF STATA
6/01 EF STATA
6/08 Discussion
6/15 Discussion
6/22 Final
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