Thomas Chaney's Teaching - ECON 357 Lecture Notes

ECON 357 Lecture Notes:

Firms and International Trade

Syllabus [PDF]

Introduction

Lecture 1: Gravity Equations [notes] [slides]

Lecture 2: The Krugman Model of Trade [notes] [slides]

Part 1: Firm Heterogeneity and International Trade

Lecture 3: The Melitz-Chaney Model [notes] [Melitz slides] [Chaney slides] [Welfare slides]

Lecture 4: Endogenous Mark-ups [notes] [BEJK slides] [Melitz-Ottaviano slides]

Lecture 5: Multi-product firms [coming soon]

Lecture 6: Empirics [notes] [EKK slides] [Pavcnik-de Loecker slides]

Addendum: Firm Level Export Data, whom to ask? [notes]

Part 2: The Size Distribution of Firms

Lecture 7: Gibrat and Zipf [slides]

Lecture 8: Growth and Variance [slides]

Part 3: Trade and Labor

Lecture 9: Skill Biased Trade [slides]

Lecture 10: Trade, Wages and Unemployment [coming soon]

Part 4: Multinational Firms

Lecture 11: Heterogeneous Firms and Horizontal FDI [notes]

Lecture 12: Contracts and Vertical FDI [notes]

Appendix: International Macroeconomics

Lecture 13: Heterogeneous Firms and Aggregate Prices [notes]

Lecture 14: Overshooting and Speculative Attacks [notes]