This course provides an introductory overview of international economics, focusing on how economic activities extend across national borders through trade, financial flows, and migration. Designed for first-year undergraduate students in economics, it introduces the fundamental concepts and mechanisms that explain international economic interactions, using simple analytical models and concrete real-world examples.
The course is organized around three main themes. First, it examines international trade, highlighting the logic of comparative advantage, factor endowments, and the economic effects of trade policies such as tariffs and quotas, with particular attention to developing countries. Second, it explores international financial flows, including the balance of payments, exchange rate determination, capital movements, and the sources of global financial instability through major crisis case studies. Finally, the course analyzes international migration and labor mobility, focusing on economic drivers of migration, remittances, labor market impacts, and migration policies.
Overall, the course aims to develop students’ ability to understand global economic interdependence and to apply basic economic reasoning to international issues.
- Enseignant éditeur: Njike Oya Arnold
