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Course Overview
This seminar explores the linkages between the global economy, firm structure, and industrial performance. This includes FDI linkages to firm productivity, the impact of globalization on the organization of the firm, globalization and inequality, and the forces driving offshoring.
This course is organized as a seminar where students present papers drawn from the scientific literature. They will also prepare survey papers on the topics covered during the seminar. Students are expected to present their own papers at the end of the term.
Readings:
--FDI and productivity--
Beata Smarzynska Javorcik, 2004. "Does Foreign Direct Investment Increase the Productivity of Domestic Firms? In Search of Spillovers through Backward Linkages," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 94(3): 605-627.
Barrell, R. and N. Pain (1997). “Foreign Direct Investment, Technological Change, and Economic Growth Within Europe.” The
Economic Journal 445(November): 1770-1786.
Borensztein, E., de Gregorio, J, and J.-W. Lee (1998). “How Does Foreign Direct Investment Affect Economic Growth?” Journal of
International Economics 45: 115-135.
--Trade and firms--
Tybout, James R. (2001), ‘Plant and Firm-Level Evidence on New Trade Theories,’ NBER Working Paper No. 8414.
Bernard, Andrew B., Jonathan Eaton, J. Bradford Jensen, and Samuel Kortum (2003), ‘Plants and Productivity in International Trade,’ American Economic Review 93 (4), pp. 1268-1290.
Helpman, Elhanan, Marc J. Melitz and Stephen Yeaple (2004), ‘Export versus FDI with Heterogeneous Firms,’ American Economic Review 94 (1), pp. 300-317.
--Globalization and Inequality--
KrugmanP.R. and A.J. Venables. (1995), "Globalization and the Inequality of Nations," Quarterly Journal of Economics November/1995, Volume: 110(4): 857-80.
Dollar, D. and A. Kraay (2004). “Trade, Growth, and Poverty.” The Economic Journal 114(February): F22-F49.
Lundberg, M. and L. Squire (2004). “The Simultaneous Evolution of Growth and Inequality.” The Economic Journal 113(April): 326-344.
--Offshoring, Firm Organization, and Productivity--
Grossman, G. and E. Rossi-Hansberg (2006), "Trading Tasks: A Simple Theory of Offshoring," Princeton University mimeo (August).
Marin. D. (2006), "A New International Division of Labor in Europe: Outsourcing and Offshoring to Eastern Europe," Journal of the
European Economic Association, 4(2-3): Pages 612-622.
Amiti, M. amd S-J. Wei (2006), "Service Offshoring and Productivity:Evidence from the United States," NBER Working Paper No. W11926.
--Migration--
Feld, S.(2005) " Labor Force Trends and Immigration in Europe," International Migration Review, 39(3): Page 637 -662.
Ottaviano, G.I.P and G. Giovanni Peri (2006), "Rethinking the Effects of Immigration on Wages," University of California, Davis.
Card. D. (2005) "Is the New Immigration Really so Bad?," the Economic Journal, Volume 115 Issue 507 Page F300-323.
Borjas, G.J. "The Labor Demand Curve is Downward Sloping: Reexamining the Impact of Immigration On The Labor Market," Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 2003: 1335-1374.
Grading
Grading is based on participation and presentations (40%) and the final paper (60%)