Economic Growth - Spring 2002

 

 

Data sets:
Charles Jones’ Data Archive

Michael Kremer's Data Guide

Sergio Rebelo's Data Archive
NBER 
OECD 
Penn World Table:
http://pwt.econ.upenn.edu/

http://datacentre.chass.utoronto.ca/pwt/

World Bank:
Economic Growth Project
Inequality data

Environment:
www.lomborg.com

www.anti-lomborg.com
Sjak Smulders

Library service:
http://www.econ.ku.dk/library/

Texts on/with data:
Barro, R J., and X. Sala-i-Martin, 1995, Economic Growth, MIT Press, Cambridge (Mass.), Chapter 10-12.
Maddison, A., 2001, The world Economy: A Millennial Perspective, OECD.
Summers, R., and A. Heston, 1991, The Penn World Table (Mark 5): An expanded set of international comparisons, 1950-1988, Quarterly J. Economics 106, no. 2, 327-68.

A beautiful website for growth economists:
Economic Growth Resources 

Economists:

Bradford DeLong
Carl-Johan Dalgaard
Charles I. Jones
Danny Quah
Daron Acemoglu
Jonathan Temple
Nouriel Roubini
Paul Krugman
Paul Romer
Paul Segerström
Sjak Smulders
Xavier Sala-i-Martin

 

ABOUT THE COURSE BASIC MATERIAL

Lecturer: Christian Groth

General description of the course

Course plan and syllabus

Wednesdays 8.15-10: HO 2

Fridays 8.15-10: Trin 19

Literature

Term paper, deadline 12/4

 

Course start: Febr. 6th

 

Extended list of references

In case there are no foreign students the course will be in Danish  
Economic Growth Courses 2000 and 2001

Some popular readings

Lecture notes    Acrobat Reader 5  Download

Exam

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