Andersons Program in International Trade

Teaching Materials:

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AED 503: "Economics of Public Policy Analysis"

AED/IS 539: "China's Economic Reforms and Globalization"

AED/IS 540: "International Commodity Trade"

AED 734: "International Agricultural Trade Policy"

AED 809: "Applied Welfare Economics and Public Policy Analysis"


AED 503: "Economics of Public Policy Analysis"

1. Course Syllabus     

2. Introduction         

3. Preferences 

4. Edgeworth Box 

5. Prices and Equilibrium

6. Competitive Equilibrium

7. Assignment 1/Assignment 1 Answers/Quiz 1 

8. The Welfare Theorems  

9. Production and Efficiency   

10. Externalities

11. Assignment 2/Assignment 2 Answers/Quiz 2/2008Mid-Term

12. Externalities and Policy 

13. Tragedy of the Commons

14. Monopoly 

15. Monopoly Policy 

16. Assignment 3/Assignment 3 Answers/2007 Final

17. Imperfect Information and Product Quality  

18. Voting and Public Choice  - Logrolling                                                                          


AED/IS 539: "China's Economic Reforms and Globalization"

1. Course Syllabus

2. Introduction

3. China's Geography

4. China Pre-1949

5. Quiz 1

6. The Socialist Era

7. China YouTube videos

8. Transition

9. Quiz 2

10. Rural Organization

11. Quiz 3

12. Agriculture

13. Township and Village Enterprises

14. Governance of Industry

15. Industry/Energy

16. Chinese Trade

17. Quiz 4

18. Foreign Investment

19. China's Growth and Macroeconomic Policy

20. Quiz 5

21. China's Environment


AED/IS 540: "International Commodity Trade"

1. and 2. Multilateralism vs. Regionalism

Collier paper on WTO

Baldwin paper on regionalism

3. Financial Crisis and Global Imbalances


AED 734: "International Agricultural Trade Policy"

Link to Course Text

1. Course Syllabus

2. Introduction

3. General Equilibrium

4. Gains from Trade  

5. Ricardian Model 

6. Heckscher-Ohlin Model - 1

7. Heckscher-Ohlin Model - 2

8. Agricultural Trade and Policy and Food Prices

9. Effects of Trade Distortions

10. Partial Equilibrium Effects - 1

11. Partial Equilibrium Effects - 2

12.  GATT/WTO and Agriculture

13. TRQs

14. Future of WTO

15. Customs Unions and Free Trade Areas

16.  Multilateralism vs. Regionalism

17. Trade and Imperfect Competition

18. Increasing Returns and Trade

19. Tastes and Income

20. Imperfect Competition and Trade Policy

21. Trade and the Environment/Mexico Lectures I and II

22. Economics of Outsourcing/Specific Factors Model

23. Trade and Ethanol


AED 809: "Applied Welfare Economics and Public Policy Analysis"

1. Course Syllabus

2. Introduction

3. General Equilibrium-Notes and Figures (a) and (b)

4. Welfare Properties of General Equilibrium - Notes and Figures

5. Theory of Second-Best

6. Distribution of Welfare

7. Ethics and Welfare

8. Arrow's Theorem

9. Ramsey Taxation - Notes and Figure

10. Welfare Measurement

11. Income Taxation

12. Income/Poverty Measurement and Tables

13. Public Goods I, II, and III

14. Imperfect Competition

15. Externalities and Gas taxes


If you have any questions about class information please contact Ian Sheldon at sheldon.1@osu.edu