Economic Growth - Spring 2004
“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated
simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.” - Charles Mingus
A beautiful website for growth economists:
Economic
Growth Resources
Other links:
Data sets
Texts on/with data
Economists
Data
sets:
Charles Jones’
Data Archive
Groningen Growth and Developing
Centre's Data Series
NBER
OECD
Penn World Table:
http://pwt.econ.upenn.edu/
http://datacentre.chass.utoronto.ca/pwt/
Sergio Rebelo's Data Archive
Stock markets
World Bank:
Economic Growth Project
Inequality
data
World Income Inequality Database
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, 2003, Economic Growth, 2. ed., 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.
Economists:
Ben Bernanke
Ben
Heijdra
Bradford DeLong
Carl
Walsh
Carl-Johan
Dalgaard
Charles
I. Jones
Danny Quah
Dani
Rodrik
Daron Acemoglu
David
Romer
Gregory
Mankiw
Henrik
Jensen
Jonathan Temple
Jordi
Gali
Kenneth
Rogoff
Lars
Svensson
Mark
Gertler
Maurice
Obstfeld
Michael Woodford
Nouriel Roubini
Olivier
Blanchard
Paul Krugman
Sergio Rebelo
Paul Romer
Paul
Segerström
Robert
Shiller
Thomas Sargent
Willem Buiter
Xavier
Sala-i-Martin
| ABOUT THE COURSE | BASIC MATERIAL |
| Exam June 2004 | Syllabus and Course plan, as of 28/4. Updated 26/5: Smulders 1995, p. 332-35, and Bergh & Mooij (1999) only cursory reading. |
| Lecturer: Christian Groth, email: chr.groth@econ.ku.dk General description of the course |
Lectures and lecture notes |
|
Wednesdays 10-12: HO 2 Fridays 10-12: HO 7 |
|
| Course start: Febr. 4th | |
| Previous
Economic
Growth Courses: 2000 and 2001, 2002, 2003. |
Correction
lists (List 2 now avalable) |
| Previous exams | Exercises: Problem set III now available. |
| Miscellaneous readings and debates | |
|
Term paper problem
set Correction |
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