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Current teaching
Industrial Economics (undergraduate)
Learning outcomes: The course is centred around the concept of market power, with the aim of assessing how firms’ and consumers’ choices, and ultimately welfare, are affected by competition policy. To do so, the course considers a variety of issues in the field of industrial organization: price discrimination, bundling, product variety and quality. The course also applies the concept of market power to the international setting, to study the behaviour of firms and multinational companies under different competitive and contractual regimes,
and to derive normative implications for competition policy in a global environment.
Trade and Geography in the
World Economy (graduate)
Learning outcomes: The first part of the course presents in an advanced yet tractable manner theories of international trade and economic geography that describe the forces shaping the distribution of economic activity across space, and the consequences that agglomeration and dispersion forces have at the world level on economic outcomes such as prices, trade flows, wages, and welfare. Political outcomes such as voting behaviour are also analyzed. The course is centred around models of both perfect and imperfect competition, and considers more recent extensions, such as those assuming production heterogeneity and aiming at an exact quantification of the models’ properties. The second part of the course is devoted to empirical applications, where papers with a structural approach to the estimation of the models’ parameters are presented. The final empirical application is a Lab focusing on the structural estimation of gravity equations of trade, a key tool for trade policy analysis.
Exam questions
International trade and investment (undergraduate)
Topics covered in the exercises: The general traditional model; the Ricardian model; the Heckscher-Ohlin model; Models with increasing returns to scale and imperfect competition; International trade policy; Multinational enterprises and FDI (horizontal, vertical, outsourcing, licensing).
Question
Bank International Trade and Investment
Replication packages
Below are provided the replication packages for some Master’s thesis written in the framework of the programme in International Politics and Economics.
De Nicolo E. (2023) International trade of semiconductors under the WTO Information Technology Agreement: A gravity model.
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