IP 607

An overview of international trade economics, and the economics of migration. The trade economics module includes trade theory plus applications to a number of policy-relevant issues such as trade negotiations, protectionism, linkages of trade to income distribution and growth, linkages of trade to the environment, and the institutions of the international trading regime. The migration module covers economic analysis of policies that affect migrants. Other topics could include education, fertility, aging, demographics, gender, remittances and development.