Marc Muendler: Summer-II 2022, Econ 101

Marc-Andreas Muendler

International Trade

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University of California, San Diego

summer 2022: International Trade 101

format: exams in-person (see syllabus for policy on absences beyond student's control), instruction hybrid

lecture: TueThu 8:00a-10:50a, Solis 110
section id: 085475
office hours and email addresses
- : Fri 2:00-3:00pm, Zoom
- : Mon 2:00p-3:00p, Zoom
review sections
- midterm review: Wed, August 17, 5-6:50p, room Econ 200 (Zoom)
- final review: Thu, September 1, 7-8:50p, room Econ 200 (Zoom)
exams
- midterm: Thu, August 18, 8:00a (50 minutes plus 15 and 15 minutes for roll calls before and after)
- final: Sat, September 3, 8:00a (100 minutes plus 15 and 15 minutes for roll calls before and after)
video
- immediate posting: podcast
- recording: zoom (via canvas)
student discussion group: discord (not monitored)

empirical exercises
- #1, due Fri, August 12, 4:50p [pdf 73k]
- #2, due Mon, August 15, 4:50p [pdf 78k]
- #3, due Mon, August 22, 4:50p [pdf 81k]
- #4, due Mon, August 29, 4:50p [pdf 75k]
- submit through Canvas (Turnitin)

lecture notes
- #1, August 2 [zip 222k] (day's question [zip 102k])
- #2, August 2 [zip 121k] (day's question [zip 91k])
- #3, August 4 [zip 107k] (day's question [zip 105k])
- #4, August 4 [zip 5,411k] (day's question [zip 110k])
- #5, August 9 [zip 101k] (day's question [zip 103k])
- #6, August 9 [zip 119k] (day's question [zip 88k])
- #7, August 11 [zip 1,399k] (day's question [zip 102k])
- #8, August 11 [zip 285k] (day's question [zip 122k])
- #9, August 16 [zip 459k] (day's two questions [zip 104k])
- #10, August 16 [zip 118k] (day's two questions [zip 111k])
- #11, August 23 [zip 233k] (day's question [zip 93k])
- #12, August 23 [zip 100k] (day's question [zip 95k])
- #13, August 25 [zip 130k] (day's question [zip 109k])
- #14, August 25 [zip 107k]
- #15, August 30 [zip 136k] (day's question [zip 97k])
- #16, August 30 [zip 88k]
- #17, September 1 [zip 189k] (day's two questions [zip 118k])
- #18, September 1 [zip 126k]
complete lecture notes (including overlay graphs)
- #1-#10 [zip 8,992k]
- #11-#18 [zip 1,630k]
organizational handouts
- syllabus [pdf 173k]
- how to open password protected zip files [pdf 20k]
- rules for exceptional remote final exam if absence beyond student's control and incomplete grade would constitute undue hardship [pdf 333k] (equivalent to econ 1 in fall 2021)
past exams
- exam (22x) [zip 175k] (up to midterm, including solutions)
- exam (18f) [zip 168k] (just midterm, including solutions)
- exams (14f) [zip 187k] (one midterm only, including solutions)
- exams (14s) [zip 312k] (including solutions)
- exams (13x) [zip 616k] (one midterm only, including solutions)
- exams (11f) [zip 818k] (including solutions)
- exams (10f) [zip 433k] (solutions to first midterm 10f [zip 1.4M], second midterm 10f [zip 138k] and final [zip 1.7M])
- exams (09f) [zip 514k] (solutions to first midterm 09f [zip 3.4M], second midterm 09f [zip 1.8M] and final [zip 1.6M])
- exams (06s) [zip 308k] (solutions to first midterm 06s [zip 5k] and second midterm 06s [zip 2k])
- exams (05s) [zip 317k]
- exams (03f) [zip 247k] (mock exams 03f [zip 182k] )

textbooks
- Krugman, Melitz & Obstfeld (2018) [html]
- Muendler (2020)
  chapter 1: introduction [zip 78k]
  chapter 2: principle of comparative advantage [zip 185k]
  chapter 3: competitiveness, comparative advantage and the terms of trade [zip 931M]
  chapter 4: trade, endowments, and the income distribution [zip 1.1M]
  chapter 6: intermediate input trade and offshoring [zip 237k]

data and stata code
- ado code [./ado/]
- general data [./gen/]
- industry concordances [./conc/]
- preparatory code [./prep/]
- #1, August 2 [./lec01/]
- #2, August 2 [./lec02/]
- #3, August 4 [./lec03/]
- #4, August 4 [./lec04/]
- #7, August 11 [./lec07/]
- #8, August 11 [./lec08/]
- #9, August 16 [./lec09/]
- #11, August 23 [./lec11/]
- #14, August 25 [./lec14/]
- #14, August 30 [./lec16/]

histograms and letter grades [zip 179k]
typical economics grade distribution
- top 2.7 percent: A+
- next 14.7 percent: A
- next 10.2 percent: A-
- next 11.0 percent: B+
- next 14.3 percent: B
- next 9.2 percent: B-
- next 7.3 percent: C+
- next 9.8 percent: C
- next 5.1 percent: C-
- next 3.4 percent: D
- next 11.0 percent: F or withdrawal