Economic Growth - Spring 2010

 

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.
Computation, simulation of dynamic systems

Other links:
VoxEU: Research-based policy analysis
Resources for economists on the internet
Data sets
The Economic Policy Institute
Economists
Moore's Law
Life expectancy

YouTube and alike:
From our own world (any similarity with the dean of CBS is aimed at)
The Krugman Blues


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, with correction as of May 24)
 

Wednesdays 13-15: CSS 2-0-24
Thursdays 08-10, new:  CSS 2.0.42  
Course starts Febr. 3th 2010.

Lectures and lecture notes
Afterthoughts

Exam preparation meeting
 

Previous exams Next exercise problem
Exercise problem sets
The Five Commandments of Written Exam
Correction lists 1-3
External evaluation in Week 20:  Go to the course page in Absalon. Homework 3
Previous Economic Growth
Courses
: 2000 and 2001,
2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
Supplementary material
Extended list of references
Miscellaneous debates
Texts on data
Computation, simulation
   

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