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7 – 10 December 2009
Reto Föllmi, University of Bern
This module will use the tools introduced in International Trade I to further the participants’ understanding of the role of international trade for economic performance. We focus on the new insights of the recent economic literature and their obvious policy implications.
Topics covered will include the role of increasing returns and imperfect competition for trade and growth (Krugman and Melitz), the interplay between inequality, trade, and growth, in particular the winners and losers of trade liberalisation. The final topic will cover international flow of production factors: capital (FDI) and labor (migration).
Conceptual discussions in morning sessions will be followed by group discussions on material including theoretical and empirical exercises in the afternoon. The exam at the end of the course will include short essays with analytical / graphical parts and multiple choice questions.
Lecturer:
Reto Foellmi is Professor of Economics at the University of Bern. He is a Research Affiliate of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR, London), and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute for Empirical Research in Economics (IEW) at the University of Zurich. Further, he serves as study director of the Master in International and Monetary Economics (MIME) of the Universities Bern and Basel. He has held visiting appointments at M.I.T., Osaka University, Kobe University, Mainz University, and the University of St. Gallen.
Reto Foellmi’s research interest lie in economic growth, distribution and international trade. He has published extensively on these subjects, including two books (one at Princeton University Press) as well as several articles in leading journals.
Cost: CHF 1’500 (2’700 together with International Trade I)
Registration date: 30 November 2009
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Master Programme (MILE) 
