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ECGA 5510 INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC POLICY

Description: This core IPED course uses economic methodology to examine the interaction between political and economic institutions in the determination of international economic policy. Topics covered may include: protectionism, strategic trade policy, economic sanctions, trade wars and macroeconomic coordination. This course is designed to be taken in tandem with POGA 6640 Politics of Global Economic Relations. The prerequisite for this course is ECGA 5011 or its equivalent.

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Syllabus

Online Reserves (password for Spring 2008 "bronx")

Problem Sets (Answers are posted only after homework is due, otherwise only the questions are posted.)

Empirical Project

• International Financial Statistics Yearbook (Ref H1.I6181): imfstatistics.org
• International Trade Statistics Yearbook (Ref HF 1411.U5): unstats.un.org/unsd

• Pie Chart 1: Imports by Category
• Pie Chart 2: Import Sources by Country
• H-Index vs Number of Same Size Markets
• H-Index Calcuation
• Table 1: Regression Data

• Chart 1: Imports over Time
• Chart 2: National Income over Time
• Chart 3: Real Price over Time
• Scatter Diagram 1: Imports versus Real National Income
• Scatter Diagram 2: Imports versus Real Price

• Table 2: Regression Data (log form)
• Regression Instructions
• Regression Analysis #1
• Regression Analysis #2
• Final Report

• Serial Autocorrelation: Why it's there, what it does, and how to get rid of it," by Ronald Mendoza