Banerjee – Good Economics for Hard Times

• The main material for the course are the lecture slides, which will be regularly uploaded on the course Ariel website.
• Students will also find on the course Ariel website the detailed course calendar and the lecture slides, containing all the information on required readings for each lecture.
• In general, there is no required textbook for the course. The main study material are slides and academic papers. Three useful books are:
• In addition, articles from academic journals will be assigned as required or recommended reading and reviewed in the lectures and classes. Another source of reading material will be blog posts, videos, talks or literature reviews from…

Argomenti del programma: Part 1. (Prof. Barba Navaretti) Lecture 1: Introduction Lecture 2: The Gains from Trade Lecture 3: The Ricardian Model Lecture 4: The Heckscher-Ohlin Model Lecture 5: Imperfect competition Lecture 6: Increasing Returns to Scale Lecture 7: Trade in Intermediate Inputs and Wages Lecture 8: Heterogeneous Firms and the International Markets Lecture 9 and 10: Horizontal vs. Vertical FDI Part 2. (Prof.

• The main material for the course are the lecture slides, which will be regularly uploaded on the course Ariel website.
• Students will also find on the course Ariel website the detailed course calendar and the lecture slides, containing all the information on required readings for each lecture.
• In general, there is no required textbook for the course. The main study material are slides and academic papers. Three useful books are:
• Articles from academic journals, particularly review articles, will be assigned as required or recommended reading and reviewed in the lectures and classes.

Argomenti del programma: The course will cover the following topics: Topic 1 - Introduction: Economic development, environmental degradation and climate change. Why studying the environment in low and middle-income countries? An introduction to the relationship between economic development on one hand, and climate change and environmental degradation on the other.