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International Trade (Econ 4103 or IB 4103)

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I will send announcements via your ASU smail account.  So, you must be careful not to let your account lapse or fill up.  When that happens your emails get bounced back to me without delivery.  The bottom line is that you need to check your email account on a regular basis.

Preliminaries: This link provides a Powerpoint presentation of introductory information for this course. You will need to click on slide show to view the presentation as a slide show.

Course outline!: Click here to read the course Outline.

Logging on to Blackboard 6:  This course will use Blackboard 6 which my be new to you.  So, here are some instructions that should help you get through the preliminaries.

Helpful Hints

Problem Sets: Click on the following links to download each problem set (Some of these files are in Microsoft Word and some are in pdf format.)

    Problem Set 1

        Solution to Problem Set 1

    Problem Set 2

        Solution to Problem Set 2

    Problem Set 3

        Solution to Problem Set 3

Answers to end-of-chapter questions

Trade Regulations and Industrial Policies (Chapter 7 in Carbaugh)

    Power Point presentation on the evolution of trade law in the U.S.

    Article on the Boeing-Airbus dispute (This file is in pdf format.)

Semester Project for Fall 2004

    Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) project!  This file is in Microsoft Word format.

     Country Assignment:  This file lists the country assignments for all students in the

     class   

Interesting Links Relating to International Issues (newspaper articles, etc.)

Http://www.clt.astate.edu/randyk