Economic Growth - Spring 2008

 

 

Tell me and I will forget
Show me and I will remember
Involve me and I will understand

Step back and I will act 

(Chinese proverb on learning)

 

A beautiful website for growth economists:
Economic Growth Resources 

Software:
Growth theory with Mathematica. Simulating dynamic systems with SoWhat for Windows 1.6.

Other links:
Resources for economists on the internet
Data sets
Economists
Moore's Law

Data sets:
Charles Jones’ Data Archive

Groningen Growth and Developing
    Centre's Data Series

Michael Kremer's Data Guide

NBER 
OECD 
Penn World Table:
http://pwt.econ.upenn.edu/

http://datacentre.chass.utoronto
Sergio Rebelo's Data Archive
Stock markets
R&D statistics

World Bank:
Economic Growth Project
Inequality data

World Income Inequality Database

The resource curse

Environment:
www.lomborg.com

www.anti-lomborg.com
Sjak Smulders

Econometrics links

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

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
Holger Strulik
Jonathan Temple
Jordi Gali
Kenneth Rogoff
Lars Svensson
Lawrence Summers
Mark Gertler
Maurice Obstfeld
Michael Woodford
Nouriel Roubini
Olivier Blanchard
Paul Krugman
Peter Thompson
Sergio Rebelo
Paul Romer
Paul Segerström
Robert Shiller
Thomas Sargent 
Willem Buiter
Xavier Sala-i-Martin

 

ABOUT THE COURSE BASIC MATERIAL
Lecturer: Christian Groth, email: chr.groth@econ.ku.dk
General description of the course
Course plan and syllabus final
Intended learning outcomes

Mondays 10-12: CSS 2-1-30
Wednesdays 10-12: CSS 5-1-22 (New room from 20th Febr.) 
Course starts Febr. 4th. 2008.

Lectures and lecture notes
LN 19, now with corrections

Previous exams Next exercise problem
Exercise problem sets
Previous Economic Growth
Courses
: 2000 and 2001,
2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007.

Correction lists
Internal evaluation in Week 11 and 12. External evaluation in Week 19 and 20: Go to the course page in Absalon. Midterm paper
The Five Commandments of Written Exam Supplementary material
Extended list of references
Miscellaneous debates
Texts on data
Exam June 2008
   

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