Exercises in Economic Growth

Spring 2012, Wednesdays 8-10, CSS 7.0.22

Generally, the problem set for class exercises will be announced here Friday at 10:00 the week before. You are supposed to try solving the problems before meeting in class. Instructor is Niklas Brønager, who uses the class site under Economic Growth in Absalon for electronic communication with the participants.
Part 1 of the collection of exercise problems is here.

Week Topic Solve                                    Comments
        before        after
7 Conceptual issues. Catching-up. Technology, CRS or? Solow in continuous time Problem I.1, I.3, I.4, and as much as possible from I.5. Corrected typos here.
 		 In addition to preparing the problems, reading LN 1 and LN 2 is recommended.  I.5 postponed.
 
8 Solow in continuous time. Neutral technical change. I.5, I.9, III.1, and I.7. Program slightly changed after lecture 17/2: we postpone III.1 to Week 9.    
9 Growth accounting vs. sources of growth. Speed of convergence. III.1, III.2, and if time allows, II.1.    
10 Barro regressions and the formulas in DA pp. 80-81. Technology differences across countries. II.4, III.6.   II.4 e)-i) postponed.
11 Barro regressions and the formulas in DA pp. 80-81. Why the Malthusian regime came to an end. Follow-up on III.6, II.4 e)–i), III.3, and IV.1.   IV.1 postponed to lecture 16th March.
12 Applying the Ramsey model with exogenous technical progress, I.
 		 8:15-9:00 Problem IV.2.
9:15-10:00 workshop related to Homework 1.		    
13 Applying the Ramsey model with exogenous technical progress, II.
 		 8:15-9:00 workshop related to Homework 1.
9:15-10:00 Problem IV.5, IV.6, and IV.8.  		   
14 A social planner. Human capital as just another capital good. IV.9 and V.1. Part 2 of the collection of exercise problems is here. Since extra time was available, IV.10 was discussed as well.
15 Human capital, R&D, and balanced growth. V.7, V.8
16 Human capital. Social capital. The institutions hypothesis. V.2, V.3, VI.9, VI.10. As to V.2 you may consult §3.2 in LN 8. V.3 postponed
17 Different macro models with human capital formation. V.2f)-g), V.3, and VI.1.   V.4 and V.5 postponed to the lecture April 27.
18 8.15-9.00: Class.
9.15-10.00: Workshop		 Class: VI.1e)-g) plus LN 10, §3. Workshop: do Homework 2.    
19 8.15-9.00: Workshop.
9.15-10.00: Class.		 Finish Homework 2.
Class: VI.4.		   VI.4 postponed. Lecture Note 12 is about an aspect of consumption taxation.
20 A public productive service, taxation, and growth. VI.4 and, if time allows,  VI.5.    
21 R&D-based growth VII.4 and VII.6 (see Part 3 of the exercise problems).