International Trade

This subject is not offered in 2013.

Admission into BH-COM or BH-ARTS (Economics) and

None

Please refer to Prerequisites and Corequisites.

Students may not gain credit for both ECON40003 International Trade and ECON90019 International Trade

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Topics include determinants of the patterns of trade and the gains from trade; the analytics of the instruments of trade policy under different market structures; the political economy of trade policy; the economics of preferential trade agreements; and the role of the World Trade Organisation.

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A 2-hour end-of-semester examination (70%) and class assignments totalling not more than 3000 words (30%).

International Trade: Theory and Evidence (J Markusen, W Melvin, W Kaempfer and K Maskus), McGraw-Hill, 1995

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

• High level of development: written communication; application of theory to practice; critical thinking; receptiveness to alternative ideas.

• Moderate level of development: interpretation and analysis.

• Some level of development: oral communication; problem solving.