Supplementary material for Economic Growth

The Solow growth model

Solow himself is the first to acknowledge that his 1956 model of economic growth is a theoretical model of a closed economy, not a model of an open economy in a globalized world. An interview with Solow, 2002.

About student seminars and writing papers

• Students seminars

• Hints about writing research papers

• On plagiarism

Recommended Math Manual
    K. Sydsaeter, A. Strom and P. Berck, Economists' Mathematical Manual, 4th ed. (or later), Springer Verlag, 2004.

Miscellaneous

• Some stylized facts concerning economic fluctuations

• Miscellaneous readings and debates

• Rudebusch, G. D., Are productivity fluctuations due to real supply shocks? Economics Letters, vol. 27, 1988, 327-331.

• History of economic thought, theoretical schools
  As to the history of macroeconomics, Snowdon and Vane: A Macroeconomics Reader, London 1997, is recommended.
• Resources for economists on the internet (Bill Goffe)
• Economic growth resources (Jonathan Temple)
• Stock markets
• The Economist
  

Supplementary material for Advanced Macroeconomics