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Eco 354
International Economics

Eshragh Motahar
Spring 2025

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International Trade in the Presence of Economies of Scale and Imperfect Competition
Multinational Enterprises:  Exporting Decisions, Outsourcing

 

• Economies of Scale

-external economies of scale
-internal economies of scale

• Imperfect competition

-monopoly
-monopolistic competition

• Dumping

• Outsourcing
 

  Check the summary and key terms at the end of each chapter. Also, do the problems at the end of each chapter.

  Make sure to read case studies and side bars
 

Reading Assignment

Textbook and MyEconLab: Chapter 7, and Chapter 8 (the appendix is summarized in handout [6A]). (Recall that the textbook is required, while MyEconLab is optional.)

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