ECON 474 - Regional Economic Integration

Credits: (3)
Prerequisite(s): ECON 303, ECON 304, ECON 308, and ECON 475.
College Curriculum: COLL 400
The theory and practice of preferential economic arrangements, and their impact on various groups and the multilateral system. Seminar covers the stages of regional integration (free trade area, customs union, economic and monetary union), regionalism versus multilateralism, and interest-group politics around bilateralism and regionalism. Students apply theory to cross-country data or to case studies in their research, including on NAFTA, the EU, agreements in Africa, Asia, Eurasia, Latin America, and the WTO.