Seminar International Economics: Topics in International and Environmental Economics
Instructors: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Philip SauréShortname: HS: Inter Eco
Course No.: 03.897.1919
Course Type: Hauptseminar
Requirements / organisational issues
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Syllabus
Preliminary version - subject to slight changes
Description:
The seminar focusses on recent empirical work related to environmental questions in the context of international economics. Examples are carbon leakage through international specialization, border adjustment tax and implicit carbon subsidies in trade policy. Many of the papers rely on the conceptual framework of the concept of the gravity equation, to which extra attention will be given. Each seminar participant will present and review one paper, with an in-depth discussion and a critical assessment. The papers cover methodological advances as well as applications. Seminar requirements No single course from the master program is required. However, sound knowledge of basic trade theory as well as standard econometric tools (panel estimations, instrumental variable estimations) are prerequisites for attending the seminar.
Organization:
The seminar is scheduled to take place in person. In the introductory meeting, we will discuss further organizational issues including formal requirements of the seminar paper.
Introductory meeting:
Tuesday, October 26, 2021, 10:15 am to 11:45 am Presentations:
Friday, January 7, 2022, starting 8.30am
Writing assignment: Friday, November 5, 2021 - Friday, February 4, 2022, noon
Background literature:
• Head, Keith, and Thierry Mayer. ”Gravity equations: Workhorse, toolkit, and cookbook.” Handbook of international economics. Vol. 4. Elsevier, 2014. 131-195.
• Cherniwchan, Jevan, Brian R. Copeland, and M. Scott Taylor. ”Trade and the environment: New methods, measurements, and results.” Annual Review of Economics 9 (2017): 59-85.
Papers to be presented (subject to changes):
1. Anderson, James E., and Eric Van Wincoop (2003) ”Gravity with gravitas: a solution to the border puzzle.” American economic review 93.1, 170-192.
2. Silva, JMC Santos, and Silvana Tenreyro (2006) ”The log of gravity.” The Review of Economics and statistics 88.4, 641-658 3. Weitzman, M. L. (1974). Prices vs. quantities. Review of Economic Studies, 41(4), 477-491.
4. Brock, W. A., and Taylor, M. S. (2010). The green Solow model. Journal of Economic Growth, 15(2), 127-153.
5. Harstad, B., Lancia, F., and Russo, A. (2021). Policies and Instruments for Self-Enforcing Agreements.
6. Frankel, Jeffrey A., and Andrew K. Rose (2005) ”Is trade good or bad for the environment? Sorting out the causality.” Review of economics and statistics 87.1, 85-91. [required background: frankel, j. a., and romer, d. h. (1999). does trade cause growth?. american economic review, 89(3), 379-399.]
7. Levinson, A. (2009). Technology, international trade, and pollution from US manufacturing. American Economic Review, 99(5), 2177-92.
8. Najjar, N., and Cherniwchan, J. (2021). Environmental Regulations and the Clean-Up of Manufacturing: Plant-Level Evidence. Review of Economics and Statistics, 103(3): 476-491.
9. Shapiro, JS. and Walker, R. (2018). Why is Pollution from US Manufacturing Declining? The Roles of Environmental Regulation, Productivity, and Trade. American Economic Review, 108(12): 3814–3854
10. Forslid, R., Okubo, T. and Ulltveit-Moe, KH. (2018). Why are firms that export cleaner? International trade, abatement and environmental emissions. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 91: 166-183
11. Dean, J. M., Lovely, M. E., and Wang, H. (2009). Are foreign investors attracted to weak environmental regulations? Evaluating the evidence from China. Journal of development economics, 90(1), 1-13.
12. Aichele, R., and Felbermayr, G. (2012). Kyoto and the carbon footprint of nations. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 63(3), 336-354.
13. Aichele, R., and Felbermayr, G. (2015). Kyoto and carbon leakage: An empirical analysis of the carbon content of bilateral trade. Review of Economics and Statistics, 97(1), 104-115. 2 14. Martin, R., Muûls, M., De Preux, L. B., and Wagner, U. J. (2014). Industry compensation under relocation risk: A firm-level analysis of the EU emissions trading scheme. American Economic Review, 104(8), 2482-2508.
15. Larch, M., and Wanner, J. (2017). Carbon tariffs: An analysis of the trade, welfare, and emission effects. Journal of International Economics, 109, 195-213.
16. Böhringer, C., Carbone, J. C., and Rutherford, T. F. (2018). Embodied carbon tariffs. The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 120(1), 183-210.
17. Shapiro, Joseph S. ”The environmental bias of trade policy.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 136.2 (2021): 831-886. 3
Dates
| Date (Day of the week) | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 10/26/2021 (Tuesday) | 10:15 - 11:45 | 00 311 HS VI 1121 - Haus Recht und Wirtschaft II |
| 01/07/2022 (Friday) | 08:30 - 14:00 | 01 130 RW 6 1226 - Haus Recht und Wirtschaft I |