1st Edition
International Economics
1. An Introduction: Life in an International Economy Part 1: International Trade and Trade Policy 2. Why Do Nations Trade? Some Early Answers 3. Why Do Nations Trade? Some Later Answers 4. Trade and the Role of Factor Endowments 5. Scale, Competition and Trade 6. The Theory of Protection Tariffs and Other Barriers to Trade 7. Arguments for Protection and the Political Economy of Trade Policy 8. International Mobility of Labor and Capital 9. Regional Blocs: Preferential Trade Liberalization 10. Commercial Policy and the WTO 11. Trade and Growth Part 2: International Finance and Open Economy Macroeconomics 12. The Balance of Payments and the Exchange Rate 13. Fundamentals of Exchange Rate Systems 14. An Introduction to Modeling the Open Economy 15. Extensions of the Basic Open Economy Model: Policy Effectiveness and the Large Open Economy 16. International Capital Markets 17. Modelling International Capital Markets 18. Policy Under Fixed Exchange Rates 19. Policy under Flexible Exchange Rates and Extensions of the Mundell-Fleming Model 20. Perfectly Flexible Prices and Exchange Rate Dynamics 21. The International Monetary System: A Brief History 22. European Monetary Integration 23. International Financial Crises
Biography
Theo S. Eicher is Professor and Robert R. Richards Distinguished Scholar in the Department of Economics at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. He is also an affiliate professor at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany.
John Mutti is the Sidney Meyer Professor International Economics at Grinnell College, Iowa, USA. His experience in government includes the US Treasury Office of International Taxation and the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. His research focuses on international trade, taxation, and foreign direct investment.
Michelle Turnovsky is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics, at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
