Advanced Macroeconomics 2 - Autumn 2008

 

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The current financial crisis (2007-08)
Macro economists
Internet resources for economists
Internet resources for macro
Glossary of international economics
Data sets
Texts on/with data
European Economic Association
European economic policy

Other debate
 

Macro economists:

Ben Bernanke
Willem Buiter
Ben Heijdra
Bradford DeLong
Carl Walsh
Charles I. Jones
Charles Wyplosz
Danny Quah
Dani Rodrik
Daron Acemoglu
David Romer
Gregory Mankiw
Henrik Jensen
Jonathan Temple
Jordi Gali
Kenneth Rogoff
Lars Svensson
Lawrence Summers
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

General internet resources  for economists:
Quantitative Macroeconomics Home Page
Economic Growth Resources
Internet Resources for Econo-mists 

 

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.ca/pwt/
Sergio Rebelo's Data Archive
Stock markets

World Bank:
Economic Growth Project
Inequality data

Environment:
www.lomborg.com

www.anti-lomborg.com
Sjak Smulders

Econometrics links

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.

European economic policy debate
Center for European Policy Studies
The Economist
Centre for Economic Policy    Research
CESifo

Other debate
 
The Conspiracy to Keep You Poor and Stupid
The Unofficial Paul Krugman Web Page

ABOUT THE COURSE BASIC MATERIAL


Lecturer is Christian Groth,
email: chr.groth@econ.ku.dk

Course Plan and Syllabus (final)

General description of the course.

Competence description

Lectures and  lecture notes
 
Lectures: Tuesdays 10-12
in CSS 7-0-40
 
No lecture Sept. 2
First lecture Sept. 5, 2008, in CSS 5-  0-28 (not 7-0-28)

Exercises 
Exercise problem sets

The only way to learn the material is to do the exercises!

Class exercises: Fridays 10-12, beginning Sept. 12, in CSS 5-0-28

Correction lists
Result of internal evaluation in Week 40. Result of external evaluation in Week 48. Supplementary material
Paul Krugman on the financial crisis
Previous exams   Electronic exam
Recommendations for written exam Midterm paper   New