International Trade Theory and Policy: trade liberalization and wage inequality; trade and the environment; labour and environmental standards, anti-dumping and countervailing duties; safeguard (anti-surge) measures; trade sanctions; trade patterns and the factor content of trade; international economic espionage.
International Trade and Economic Development: foreign aid; international inequality and economic development; trade, product cycles and learning by doing; trade-related aspects of intellectual property.
Agricultural Trade and Related Issues: agricultural trade and the WTO; biotechnology, European Union expansion and the Common Agricultural Policy, agriculture in transition economies.