International Economics plus NEW MyEconLab with Pearson eText (1-semester access) -- Access Card Package

by Krugman, Paul R.; Obstfeld, Maurice; Melitz, Marc

• ISBN13: 9780132961646
• ISBN10: 0132961644
• Edition: 9th
• Format: Hardcover w/ Access Card
• Copyright: 2011-11-22
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman, renowned researcher Maurice Obstfeld, and new co-author Marc Melitz of Harvard University, continue to set the standard for International Economics courses with the text that remains the market leader in the U.S. and around the world. International Economics: Theory and Policyis a proven approach in which each half of the book leads with an intuitive introduction to theory and follows with self-contained chapters to cover key policy applications. Note: This is the standalone book if you want the book and Access Card for MyEconLab order the ISBN below: 013274483X / 9780132744836 International Economics: Theory and Policy, plus MyEconLab with Pearson Etext Student Access Code Card Package Package consists of: 0132146657 / 9780132146654 International 0132734524 / 9780132734523 MyEconLab with Pearson eText -- Access Card -- for International Economics

Author Biography

Paul Krugman is a professor in the Department of Economics and in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University . Over the last 30 years, he has contributed to numerous academic journals as well as to the public discourse on economics and as an op-ed columnist for The New York Times . He is the author of over 20 bestselling books and has written more than 200 papers and articles for various professional journal volumes and newspapers. He is acclaimed in the field of economics for insights into international trade patterns that overturned long-held theories about the global economy. In 2008, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics and was recognized for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity.

 

Maurice Obstfeld is a Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for International and Development Economic Research (CIDER) at the University of California, Berkeley. He also serves as honorary advisor to the Bank of Japan's Institute of Monetary and Economic Studies. Among Professor Obstfeld's honors are the Carroll Round Keynote Lecture, Woodward Lecture, and Bernhard Harms Prize and Lecture in 2004. Professor Obstfeld is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is active as a research Fellow of CEPR, a research associate at NBER, and an International Research Fellow at the Kiel Institute of World Economics.

 

Marc Melitz is a Professor of Economics at Harvard University. He is an economist who specializes in international trade theory and has worked on the development of trade models that account for differences in productivity between firms. His research is focused on producer-level responses to globalization.  The Melitz model helps to explain variations in export and foreign direct investment patterns and is now widely used in the field of international trade and has become a cornerstone of trade theory. Melitz is also associate editor of the Journal of International Economics and Economic Journal, a foreign editor for the Review of Economic Studies, and is a research fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research and a faculty research fellow with the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Table of Contents

Part 1: International Trade Theory
Chapter 2: World Trade: An Overview
Chapter 3: Labor Productivity and Comparative Advantage: The Ricardian Model
Chapter 4: Specific Factors and Income Distribution
Chapter 5: Resources and Trade: The Heckscher-Ohlin Model
Chapter 6: The Standard Trade Model
Chapter 7: External Economies of Scale and the International Location of Production
Chapter 8: Firms in the Global Economy: Export Decisions, Outsourcing, and Multinational Enterprises
Part 2: International Trade Policy
Chapter 9: The Instruments of Trade Policy
Chapter 10: The Political Economy of Trade Policy
Chapter 11: Trade Policy in Developing Countries
Chapter 12: Controversies in Trade Policy
Part 3: Exchange Rates and Open-Economy Macroeconomics
Chapter 13: National Income Accounting and the Balance of Payments
Chapter 14: Exchange Rates and the Foreign Exchange Market: An Asset Approach
Chapter 15: Money, Interest Rates, and Exchange Rates
Chapter 16: Price Levels and the Exchange Rate in the Long Run
Chapter 17: Output and the Exchange Rate in the Short Run
Chapter 18: Fixed Exchange Rates and Foreign Exchange
Part 4: International Macroeconomic Policy
Chapter 19: International Monetary Systems: An Historical Overview
Chapter 20: Optimum Currency Areas and the European Experience
Chapter 21: Financial Globalization: Opportunity and Crisis
Chapter 22: Developing Countries: Growth, Crisis, and Reform