Contemporary Debates in Trade Policy
- NINT 5237 - Contemporary Debates in Trade Policy (Spring 2008)
Thursday 6.00pm - 7.50pm
The globalization of production and finance has put the regulation of international trade and investment at the center of policy debates in developed and developing countries. This course will provide a hands-on survey of the major debates in international trade and investment policy today, including debates over tariffs and subsidies in agriculture and manufacturing, intellectual property protection, international anti-trust policy, services trade and e-commerce regulation, controls on inward and outward foreign direct investment, foreign exchange market intervention, the establishment of international standards on labor and the environment, trade conditionality, and the relative merits of bilateral, regional and global trade and investment agreements. We will begin with a brief overview of theories of international trade and investment and of the welfare effects of liberalization. We then review some techniques for quantifying these welfare effects. Finally, we turn to a series of case studies on many of the pressing trade policy issues of our day.
Concentration:Development