NREC6006 - International Trade

0.1 Applied trade research with gravity models in Python

This graduate course is a replication-based research workshop. Students reproduce a Post-Soviet gravity paper, translate R-style gravity workflows into Python, and develop their own publication-style empirical trade paper.

0.2 Course Anchors

Anchor What students do
Replication Reproduce the Post-Soviet gravity workflow
Python Implement OLS, FE OLS, DDM, BVU, PPML, GPML, and structural PPML
Data Work with a 5,253-observation Post-Soviet gravity dataset
Research Adapt the workflow to a new region or policy question
Writing Produce a reproducible notebook and paper draft

0.3 Workflow

Research question → Data construction → Descriptive analysis → Gravity estimation → Robustness → Paper writing

0.4 Final Outputs

  1. Cleaned gravity dataset
  2. Python replication notebook
  3. Regression and robustness tables
  4. Presentation
  5. Publication-style paper