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International Economic Policy [3HEFEK156V]

Time and place

 Lecture (Prof. Dr. Carsten Hefeker):

Tuesday, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM c.t. 

Room: US-A 120

  • weekly
  • First lecture: October 11.
  • There will be an additional meeting October 20 (4-6 p.m., US-A120) instead of January 31.

 

Tutorial (Konstantinos Theocharopoulos):

Thursday, 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM c.t.

Room: US-A 134

  • biweekly
  • First tutorial: November 3.

 

 

Office hours:

 After class and by appointment. Send email to Carsten.Hefeker@uni-siegen.de using your official @student.uni-siegen.de email account. 

 

Please make sure that you register on UNISONO for material and recent updates. 

Mechanics


The course is based mainly on parts of textbooks and selected articles mentioned below. Additional sources will be specified in class. Slides and problem sets are available via UNISONO if you are registered for the course. Slides cover all relevant material but will not be sufficient to pass the course.

Requirements

This course has 9 Credit Points. In addition to participating in the lecture and passing the final exam, each student will be required to solve problem sets and present the solution in the tutorial. Each of these assignments is mandatory and will be part of the final grade. Details will be given in class and tutorial.

Outline
  • Introduction

  • Part I. Trade Policy 
          Protection in Direct and Representative Democracy
          Choice of the Protectionist Instrument 

  • Part II. Free Trade  
          Trade Liberalization and Free Trade Agreements        

  • Part III. Choice of Exchange Rate Regime
          International Currency Conflicts 
          Exchange Rates and Credibility 

  • Part IV. Collapse of Fixed Exchange Rates (Currency Crises)

Literature











Bagwell, Kyle and Robert Staiger (2002) The Economics of the World Trading System, Cambridge: MIT-Press.

Bagwell, Kyle and Robert Staiger, eds (2016) Handbook of Commercial Policy, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2 Volumes.

Drazen, Allan (2000) Political Macroeconomics, Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Feenstra, Robert (2016) Advanced International Trade, Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Flood, Robert and Nancy Marion (1999) Perspectives on the Recent Currency Crisis Literature, International Journal of Finance and Economics 4, 1-26.

Ghosh, Atish and Paul Masson (1994) Economic Cooperation in an Uncertain World, Basingstoke: Blackwell.

Grossman, Gene M. (2016) The Purpose of Trade Agreements, in K. Bagwell and R. Staiger, eds: Handbook of Commercial Policy 1A, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 379-434.

Helpman, Elhanan (1997) Politics and Trade Policy, in D. M. Kreps and K. F. Wallis, eds: Advances in Economics and Econometrics: Theory and Applications. Seventh World Congress Vol. I, 19-45.

Obstfeld, Maurice (1996) Models of Currency Crises with Self-Fulfilling Features, European Economic Review 40, 1037-1047.

Persson, Torsten and Guido Tabellini (2000) Political Economics, Cambridge: MIT-Press.

Rodrik, Dani (1995) Political Economy of Trade Policy, in G. Grossman und K. Rogoff, eds: Handbook of International Economics 3, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1457-1494.

Staiger, Robert (1995) International Rules and Institutions for Trade Policy, in G. Grossman and K. Rogoff, eds: Handbook of International Economics 3, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1495-1551.

 
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