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 2: Gains From Trade Slides
Deardorff- The General Validity of the Law of Comparative Advantage
Bernhofen, Brown - A Direct Test of the Theory of Comparative Advantage: The Case of Japan
Dixit, Norman - Gains from Trade without Lump-Sum Compensation
Costinot, Dondaldson, Kyle, Williams - The More We Die, the More We Sell? A Simple Test of the Home-Market Effect
☛ Lecture 3: Two Sector Models of Trade Slides
Jones - The Structure of Simple General Equilibrium Models
Stolper, Samuelson - Protection and Real Wages
☛ 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]
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