Bio
Alireza Naghavi is Adjunct Professor of International Economics at SAIS Europe
Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Bologna
Professor Naghavi has held positions such as Associate Professor (2014-2016) and Assistant Professor (2008-2014), Department of Economics, University of Bologna; Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (2005-2008); Post-doc CEPR research fellow, Paris School of Economics (2003-2005). He has also worked as a consultant in World Intellectual Property Organization, Geneva, Switzerland (2012-2017) and as Project Scientific Coordinator of EU project INGINEUS, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Milan (2009-2012). As Principal Investigator, he has led projects: New Protectionist Policies: Political Determinants and Economic Consequences (2019-2022); International Trade Policy between Openness and Protectionism: Intellectual Property Rights, Brain Circulation, and Global Value Chains (2017-2019), Comparative Subnational Economic Development: Research Group for the Creation and Use of Geo-localized Panel Database to Study Problems Related to Economic Development at a Local Level (2012-2014). PhD in Economics, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland (2004).
Courses
- International Trade Theory
International Trade Theory gives an overview of the causes and consequences of international trade, as well as the institutional context in which trade (and factor movements) take place in the modern economy. Topics in the general area of trade theory and commercial policy include: determinants of trade, effects of trade on economic welfare and income distribution, trade and economic growth, foreign direct investment, efficiency and redistributive effects of tariff and nontariff protection of domestic industries, the theory of preferential trading agreements, and trade and economic development. Institutional topics include: the history of the global trading system, multilateral trade negotiations and the GATT/WTO system, empirical approaches to capturing trade patterns, and the regionalism movement.
Prerequisites: Microeconomics
Offered Both Semesters