国际贸易（双语） 课程教学大纲

1、国际贸易（双语）（International Trade ）课程编号：B2201471S学 分：2开课学院： 管理学院课内学时： 32课程类别：专业基础课课程性质： 必修一、课程的性质和目的This course is for the students majored in economics or management. This text is focusing on the theorems, policies and practice on international trade. The main purposes are to bring up the analysis abili

2、ty to the international trade practical problems in the real world with appropriate economic analysis instruments and techniques. After this course, students should be familiar with the prevailing theorems on international trade and trade policies, could understand the policy impacts on domestic and

3、 global economy.二、课程教学内容及基本要求（一）课程教学内容及知识模块顺序1Knowledge unit 1: Introduction (4 hours)（1） Knowledge point 1:Brief History of International Trade（2） Knowledge point 2:Introduction to International Trade Theories（3） Knowledge point 3: The basic theory using demand and supplyRequirements:Restating the

4、brief history of international trade practice and the evolvement of trade theorems; identifying the four key questions about international trade; associating the latest real world problems with international economics and realizing that international economics is different; explaining the equilibriu

5、m world price with the demand for imports curve and the supply of exports curve; illustrating how the consumer surplus and producer surplus reflect the gains from trade.2Knowledge unit 2：The Classical Trade Theory（4hours） （1）knowledge point 1: Absolute Advantage Theory of Adam Smith （2）knowledge poi

6、nt 2: Comparative Advantage Theory of David Ricardo（3）knowledge point 3: Comparative Advantage with Many Goods or Many Countries Requirements:Listing the basic assumptions of the model; showing how countries can gain from trade on the basis of absolute advantage; explaining the development of the th

7、eory of comparative advantage using Ricardo's labor theory of value; describing contributions and demerits of the two theorems, including the extensions of the comparative advantage with many goods and many countries. 3Knowledge unit3: Neoclassical Trade Theory ( 3hours） （1）knowledge point 1:Pro

8、ducing with Increasing Marginal Cost ( 2 ) knowledge point 2:Community Indifference Curves （3）knowledge point 3: H-O Model （4）knowledge point 4: Empirical Tests of the H-O Theorem Requirements:Explaining how increasing marginal costs affect the shape of the production possibility curves; describing

9、how tastes can be represented by community indifference curves; showing how the theory of comparative advantage can be generalized as the four different reasons; using the PPC and the CIC to illustrate how trade affects the production, consumption and the overall well-being.4Knowledge unit 4: Who Ga

10、ins and Who Loses from Trade? （3hours）（1）knowledge point 1:Short-Run Effects of Opening Trade ( 2 ) knowledge point 2:The Long-Run Factor-Price Response （3）knowledge point 3: The Stolper-Samuelson Theorem（4）knowledge point 4: Factor Price Equalization Theorem Requirements:Explaining how income distr

11、ibution relates to international trade through the Stolper Samuelson theorem; Interpreting the assumptions and conclusions of the factor-price equalization theorem; Discussing the Leontief Paradox and other empirical evidence on Heckscher Ohlin. 5Knowledge unit 5: Modern Trade Theories（2hours） （1）kn

12、owledge point 1: Scale Economies and Trade （2）knowledge point 2: Monopolistic Competition: Opening to Trade Requirements:Identifying intra-industry Trade; Summerizing the apparent contradiction between HeckscherOhlin theory and IIT; Explaining how economies of scale relate to monopolistic competitio

13、n and oligopoly. 6Knowledge unit 6: Growth and Trade (2hours)（1）knowledge point 1:Balanced vs Biased Growth ( 2 ) knowledge point 2: Biased Growth in Export Sector (Small and Large Country) （3）knowledge point 3: Biased Growth in Import Sector (Small and Large Country)Requirements:Showing how trade p

14、atterns are influenced by the source of economic growth; Illustrating how economic growth can change the production patterns of a country; Discussing how growth affects the terms of trade and the well-being of the country experiencing it. 7. Knowledge unit 7: Import Protection Policy: Tariff (3hours

15、) （1）knowledge point 1: Partial Equilibrium Analysis of Tariff （2）knowledge point 2: General Equilibrium Analysis of Tariff Requirements:Identifying the advantages and disadvantages of a tariff; Explaining how a tariff lowers the welfare of the world as a whole; Illustrating how demandsupply analysi

16、s can be used to assess the gains and losses of a tariff, using both graphical and tabular expositions; Calculating the effective rate of protection.8Knowledge unit 8: Non-Tariff Barriers to Imports（2hours）（1）knowledge point 1: Import Quota and VER （2）knowledge point 2: Domestic Policies that Affect

17、 Foreign TradeRequirements:Restating the rationale behind imposing nontariff trade barriers; explaining how a tariff and a quota can be equivalent; telling the ways to allocate import licenses.9Knowledge unit 9: Pushing Export (2hours） （1）knowledge point 1: Dumping （2）knowledge point 2: Export Subsi

18、diesRequirements:Interpreting the economic meaning of “dumping.”; telling the difference between predatory dumping and persistent dumping; explaining export subsidies and countervailing import duties; inferring the welfare effects of subsidies and duties.10Knowledge unit 10: Arguments for and agains

19、t Protection（2hours） （1）knowledge point 1: Traditional Arguments （2）knowledge point 2: New Protectionism（3）knowledge point 3: The Political Economy of Trade Policy Requirements:Identifying where the limits to the case of free trade lie; telling when imposing a tariff is sometimes better than doing n

20、othing; illustrating how some other policy is usually better than the tariff in the “secondbest” cases; describing the limits within which the infant industry argument is valid.11. Knowledge unit11: Globalization and the WTO（2 hours） （1）knowledge point 1: Trend of the Globalization （2）knowledge poin

21、t 2:GATT&WTO（3）knowledge point 3: Regional Free Trade and Economic Cooperation Requirements:Restating the background, reasons and trend of the economy globalization, recalling the framework of WTO, telling the relationship between GATT and WTO; understanding the theory of regional economic integ

22、ration and the effects to the involved countries.（二）课程的重点、难点及解决办法The key points of this course include all the theorems for free trade which, based on different assumptions, explain the gains from trade and the impact of trade on domestic price, production and consumption, with the instruments of ge

23、neral and partial equilibrium analysis methods. Though all mainstream theorems are for free trade, prevailing policies among countries are somewhat different in either developed or developing countries and the reasons need to be addressed too.The difficult points in this course are as follows: the c

24、oncept of “opportunity cost” and “comparative advantage” in relative term. Its not easy for students to understand that a nation can still benefit from free trade by importing some goods with a higher price than those items domestically produced. In addition, the returns to factors are also a big ch

25、allenge for them. To make all these knowledge points understood easier, the method of general equilibrium analysis with graphs is a good choice in teaching, together with cases studies and logic reasoning process.三、实验实践环节及基本要求 None四、本课程与其它课程的联系与分工The prerequisite courses: EconomicsThe course Economi

26、cs introduces some fundamental concepts like opportunity cost while international trade could be regarded as the Micro Economics in an open economy. The course after international trade is International Finance, which is the other branch of International Economics.五、对学生能力培养的要求By learning this course, students are expected to be equipped with the ability on comprehensive understanding and analyzing of international trade and economy, the ability on practicing and self-learning, and the ability on speaking and listening in English.六、课程学时分配Total 32 h