Course: Multinational Firms (lectures) (5205-521)

Persons:

• Prof.Dr. Benjamin Jung (verantwortlich)

Type of Course:

lecture

In-Class Hours Per Week:

2

Contents:

Stylized facts; forms of foreign market access and their determinants; forms of production and their determinants; boundaries of the firms; effects of multinational firms on home and host countries

Literature:

Pol Antras and Stephen Yeaple (2014): Multinational Firms and the Structure of International Trade, in: G. Gopinath, E. Helpman, and K. Rogoff (Hrsg.), Handbook of International Economics Vol. 4, chap. 2. Further references will be announced during the course.

Location:

Hohenheim

Module:

• 5205-520 The Microeconomics of Globalization (compulsory)