Examines national and supranational policies that affect the international economy, with attention to trade barriers, economic nationalism and regionalism, international political economy, exchange market intervention, and international transmission of economic perturbations. This course may not be taken after either ECON 4413 or ECON 4423. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: contemporary societies. Requisites: Requires prerequisite courses of ECON 2010 and ECON 2020 (all minimum grade C-). Economic (ECON) majors are restricted from taking this course.
Focuses on theories of international trade and its impacts on economic welfare. Analyzes commercial policy, including tariffs, non-tariff barriers, retaliation, regional integration, and factor migration. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of ECON 3070 (minimum grade C-).
Covers balance of payments; foreign exchange market, income, trade, and capital flows; asset markets adjustment mechanisms; stabilization policies in an open economy; and problems of international monetary systems. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of ECON 3080 (minimum grade C-).
Covers theories of comparative advantage, including the classical, factor-proportions, fixed-factor, and noncompetitive markets models. Examines trade policy including trade barriers, market distortions, strategic policy, regional integration, political economy, and factor migration. Department enforced prereq., ECON 7010. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Highlights foreign exchange markets, past and current international monetary mechanisms, and processes of adjustment. Examines the role of international financial markets for the behavior of consumption, investment, saving, and production. Also considers international transmission of business cycles. Department enforced prereq., ECON 7020.
Explores advanced work in various aspects of international economics, such as empirical trade analysis, public choice, and interactions between real and monetary phenomena in the world economy. Department enforced prereq., ECON 8413 or ECON 8423. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
