Bachelor 2025/2026

International Trade

Type: Elective course (International Bachelor's in Business and Economics)

Delivered by: Department of Economic Theory and Econometrics

When: 3 year, 4 module

Open to: students of one campus

Instructors: Svetlana Golovanova

Language: English

Course Syllabus

Abstract

This course explores the fundamental theories of international trade and the implications of trade in today's global economy. Students will learn more about key classic and modern concepts, such as competitive advantage, increasing return to scale, factor endowments, technology gap theory, imperfect competition etc. A significant part of the course is devoted to discussion of reasons and instruments of trade policy and impact of trade restrictions on domestic markets and social welfare. Students will analyze world trade statistics with the focus on recent changes in international trade of Russia.