Econ 245 at UCSD, Winter 2021


Course Basics:

Teaching takes place in my Zoom room Monday and Wednesday from 1-2.15 pm, San Diego time.

Canvas website is here.

Syllabus is here.

You can contact me anytime at fpe at ucsd dot edu.

Lectures:

☛ Lecture 4: More on Heckscher-Ohlin Slides

Leamer - The Leontief Paradox, Reconsidered

Adao, Costinot, Donaldson - Nonparametric Counterfactual Predictions in Neoclassical Models of International Trade

☛ Lecture 5: Towards New Trade Theory Slides

Dornbubsch, Fischer, Samuelson - Comparative Advantage, Trade, and Payments in a Ricardian Model with a Continuum of Goods

Dornbubsch, Fischer, Samuelson - Heckscher-Ohlin Trade Theory with a Continuum of Goods

Davis, Weinstein - An Account of Global Factor Trade

Matsuyama [optional, but cool] - Ricardian Trade Theory

☛ Lecture 6: Gravity and The Armington Model Slides

Anderson - A Theoretical Foundation for the Gravity Equation

Anderson, van Wincoop - Gravity with Gravitas: A Solution to the Border Puzzle

☛ Lecture 7: Increasing Returns Slides

Krugman - Scale Economies, Product Differentiation, and the Pattern of Trade

Krugman - Increasing Returns, Monopolistic Competition, and International Trade

Davis - The Home Market, Trade, And Industrial Structure

Davis, Weinstein - Economic Geography and Regional Production Structure: An Empirical Investigation

Redding, Sturm - The Cost of Remoteness: Evidence from German Division and Reunification

☛ Lecture 8: Heterogeneous Firms Slides

Melitz - The Impact of Trade on Intra-Industry Reallocations and Aggregate Industry Productivity

Chaney - Distorted Gravity: The Intensive and Extensive Margins of International Trade

Melitz, Redding - Handbook: Heterogeneous Agents and Trade

☛ Lecture 9: Heterogeneous Firms II Slides

Eaton, Kortum - Technology, Geography, and Trade

Simonovska - Trade Models, Trade Elasticities, and the Gains from Trade

☛ Lecture 10: Spatial Equilibrium Slides

Allen, Arkolakis - Trade and the Topography of the Spatial Economy

Redding - Goods trade, factor mobility and welfare

☛ Guest Lecture by Conor Walsh: Spatial Growth Slides

Eaton, Kortum - International Technology Diffusion: Theory and Measurement

Desmet, Nagy, Rossi-Hansberg - The Geography of Development

Walsh - Firm Creation and Local Growth

☛ Lecture 11: Models of Migration Slides

Allen, Donaldson - Persistence and Path Dependence in the Spatial Economy

Caliendo, Dvorkin, Parro - Trade And Labor Market Dynamics

Bryan, Morten - Aggregate Productivity Effects of Internal Migration: Evidence from Indonesia

☛ Lecture 12: Extensions of the Canonical Spatial Model Slides

Caliendo, Parro - Estimates of the Trade and Welfare Effects of NAFTA

Hsieh, Moretti - Housing Constraints and Spatial Misallocation

Monte, Redding, Rossi-Hansberg - Commuting, Migration, and Local Employment Elasticities

Saiz - The Geographic Determinants of Housing Supply

☛ Student Presentation

Dondalson - Railroads of the Raj: Estimating the Impact of Transportation Infrastructure [Molly Shatto]

Beraja, Fuster, Hurst, Vavra - Regional Heterogeneity and the Refinancing Channel of Monetary Policy [Ali Uppal]

Diamond - The Determinants and Welfare Implications of US Workers Diverging Location Choices by Skill [Cole Dreier]

Ellison, Glaeser, Kerr - What Causes Industry Agglomeration? Evidence from Coagglomeration Patterns [Jared Mataitusi]

Faber, Gaubert - Tourism and Economic Development: Evidence from Mexicos Coastline [Steven Yee]

Note: Not listing students presenting their own research or auditing the class.

Problem Sets: Data Sources for Class Projects:

County Business Patterns Database
Employment by industry and county from 1975-2016.

IPUMS Website
Decennial Census Microdata for counties and commuting zones from 1790-2018.

NHGIS Website
Tabulated Census Data for different geographies from 1790-2018.

IRS Data
County to County Migration Data derived from tax returns, 1990 onwards.

Restricted-Use Census Data
Apply to UCLA restricted-use Research Data Center of the Census.

Linked Early Census Data
Follow people over the decades, see as they move, age, become rich or poor!

Geographical Crosswalks
Create consistent county or commuting zones boundaries every decade since 1790