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== Week 42 - Presentation ==
== Week 42 - Presentation ==
== Home exam ==
#) Explain why neighboring countries tend to trade extensively with each other.
#) Compare Ricardo’s comparative advantage theory and Heckscher-Ohlin endowment model as explanations for international trade.
#) Vernon’s product life cycle theory explaining exports.
#) External economies of scale explaining intraindustry trade.
#) What are the welfare effects of tariffs?
#) What are various forms of trade barriers?
#) Arguments for protection.
#) Compare predatory dumping and international price discrimination.
#) Preferential trade arrangements.
#) Why there is foreign-exchange risk?
#) How is private saving related to the current account?
#) Compare spot rates, forward rates and swaps.
#) Explain how a call (foreign-currency) option is useful in international trade.
#) Explain how a put (foreign-currency) option is useful in international trade.
#) Purchasing power parity and interest parity explaining exchange forward exchange rates.
#) What are the three concepts of exchange rate exposure?
#) What are the causes of currency crises?
#) What is the Marshall-Lerner condition?
#) Different approaches to the balance of payments.
#) The monetary approach explaining exchange rates.


= Finance =
= Finance =