International Trade II

Description from DukeHub

This is a second-year PhD course in advanced topics. It corresponds to the second-half of the international trade sequence of the economics PhD. Students are assumed to be comfortable with the first-year sequence in Micro, Macro and Econometrics. Taking the first- half of the international trade sequence of the economics PhD is recommended. The class covers a range of topics, including production networks, global value chains, foreign direct investment, firm boundaries and incomplete contracts, trade policy, geoeconomics, imperfect competition, and industrial policy.

Skills

• policy and lawdescription: "policy" and 1 more

AI-resilient: 1 of 5 1/5

• No: Physical, lab or field work
• No: Live work with people
• ✓Yes: Judgment someone is accountable for · "policy"
• No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
• No: Small, in-person format

The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works

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