Projects
Guidelines and a list of suggested topics.
lecture notes
you can find below links to lectures notes and slides to the classes I have taught at the University of Chicago, Toulouse School of Economics, Sciences Po, and USC.
International Trade (PhD)
These Trade notes are designed for advanced PhD students. I cover various topics of international trade, from more basic models to more advanced ones. Most of the focus of these notes is on trade theory, but I also address important empirical facts and quantitative methods in modern international trade.
- Lecture 1: CES preferences and discrete choice models slides
- Lecture 2: Trade in differentiated goods slides
- Lecture 3: Heterogeneous firms in international trade slides
- Lecture 4: Technology differences and Ricardian trade slides
- Lecture 5: Quantitative methods, estimation of gravity models slides
- Lecture 6: Welfare gains and losses from trade slides
- Lecture 7: Trade within countries, theory and empirics slides
- Lecture 8: Static and dynamic migration flows between countries slides
- Lecture 9: A trade view of labor markets slides
- Lecture 10: Endogenous transportation infrastructures slides
- Lecture 11: Flows of goods and people within cities
- Lecture 12: The China Shock, reduced form and structural estimates
- Lecture 13: Shift-share empirical designs
- Lecture 14: Importer-exporter networks, buyer-seller networks, and complex production chains
- Lecture 15: Leveraging historical data
Macroeconomics
These Macro notes are designed for undergraduate and Masters students. I cover seminal contributions in 20th Century macro, from the Overlapping Generations model of Samuelson to the frictional unemployment model of Diamond, from Lucas's rational expectations to endogenous growth theory. I have made every effort to present those important contributions using only the simplest technical tools.
Announcements
Gender pay gap readings
Some material on the gender pay gap.
Mock final exams
Mock exams, solutions, and a list of important concepts from the class.