Economic Growth - Spring 2006
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
Other links:
Data sets
Texts on/with data
Economists
Data
sets:
Charles Jones’
Data Archive
Groningen Growth and Developing
Centre's Data Series
NBER
OECD
Penn World Table:
http://pwt.econ.upenn.edu/
http://datacentre.chass.utoronto.ca/pwt/
Sergio Rebelo's Data Archive
Stock markets
R&D statistics
World Bank:
Economic Growth Project
Inequality
data
World Income Inequality Database
Environment:
www.lomborg.com
www.anti-lomborg.com
Sjak
Smulders
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.
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
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 |
|
Mondays 12-14: HO 2. |
Lectures and lecture notes |
| Exercise problems | |
| Correction lists | |
| Problem set for the midterm paper (announced 27/3). Hints to questions b) and c) in Problem 2. | |
| Previous
Economic
Growth Courses: 2000 and 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005. |
Exam preparation meeting June 2nd at 2.15 p.m. in Større Øvelsessal. |
| Previous exams | Extended list of
references Miscellaneous readings and debates |
| The Five Commandments of Written Exam | SoWhat: Software for simulating dynamic systems |
|
Internal evaluation Results External evaluation Results |
Exam problem June 2006
here Suggested solution here |
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