Kirsten Wandschneider

Assistant Professor of Economics and IPE

Periodically I will post lecture notes or handouts from class. This will not be done for every lecture.

9/15: How Nations Can Gain from International Trade: Lecture Notes Handout: Worksheet on Comparative Advantage

9/20: Sources of Comparative Advantage: Lecture Notes

9/22: Globalization: Lecture Notes

9/27: Barriers to Trade: Tariffs, Tariffs II, Worksheet for a Large Country

9/29: Non-tariff Barriers to Trade: Lecture Notes

10/4: Arguments for Restricting Trade: Lecture Notes Worksheet on Strategic Trade Policy

10/6: Trade and Labor Part II: Lecture Notes

10/11: Regionalism and Multilateralism: Lecture Notes

10/13: Case Study: CAFTA

10/25: Practice Exam Solutions

11/1: The Foreign Exchange Market: Lecture Notes

11/3: The Power of Arbitrage; Lecture Notes

11/8: Balance of Payments and the US Current Account: Lecture Notes, Discussion

11/10: A simple model to analyze the current account and more arbitrage: PPP

11/29: Exchange Rate Regimes from Past to Present: some Pictures

12/1: Exchange Rate Policies after Bretton Woods: Lecture Notes

12/6: Internaitonal Finance in Developing Countries

12/8: Sample Final Exam & Solutions