Economic Growth - Spring 2012

 

 

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)

 

Data sets
Economists

A website for growth economists:
Economic Growth Resources 

Software:
Growth theory with Mathematica.
Computation, simulation of dynamic systems

Other links:
Krugman and Layard: A manifesto for economic sense
VoxEU: Research-based policy analysis
Project Syndicate
Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET)

Center for Equitable Growth
Institute for Economic Modelling
Resources for economists on the internet
The Economic Policy Institute
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
CIA World Factbook
EHE website
EU KLEMS Growth and Productivity
Accounts

Groningen Growth and Developing Centre

Michael Kremer's Data Guide

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

http://datacentre.chass.utoronto
Sergio Rebelo's Data Archive
Globalization index
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
Jean-Paul Fitoussi
Jeffrey Frankel
Jonathan Temple
Jordi Gali

Joseph E. Stiglitz
Kenneth Rogoff
Lars Svensson
Lawrence Summers
Mark Gertler
Maurice Obstfeld
Michael Woodford
Miles Kimball
Nouriel Roubini
Olivier Blanchard
Paul Krugman
Paul Romer
Paul Segerström
Peter Thompson
Robert Shiller
Sergio Rebelo
Thomas Sargent 
Willem Buiter
Xavier Sala-i-Martin

 

GENERALITIES LECTURES AND EXERCISES
Lecturer: Christian Groth,
email: chr.groth@econ.ku.dk
General description of the course
Course plan and syllabus
(final)

Lectures: Fridays 10-12: CSS 2.1.30.
Class (Niklas Brønager): Wednesdays 8-10: CSS 7.0.22.
Course starts Febr. 10, 2011.

Lectures    
    Afterthoughts

Lecture notes

 

  Exercises
Collection of exercise problems
Results of the internal evaluation in Week 10 available in Absalon Errata
External evaluation of the course in Week 18. Homework/workshop assignment
  Discussion Forum, go to Absalon.
Previous exams Answers to email questions of relevance for the exam.
  After the exam June 15, 2012.
The Five Commandments of Written Exam Computation, simulation
 
Previous Economic Growth
Courses
: 2000 and 2001,
2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011
Supplementary material
Paul Romer's idea of Charter Cities
 
   

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