Economic Growth - Spring 2014

 

 

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)

 

YouTube and alike:
From our own world (any similarity with the dean of CBS is aimed at) The Krugman Blues

Fra vores helt egen verden (Danish)

A website for growth economists:
Economic Growth Resources 

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

Other links:

Data sets
Economists
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
Tax Justice Network
The Equality Trust
Resources for economists on the internet
The Economic Policy Institute
Moore's Law
Life expectancy
Data sets:
Intranet.ku.dk/economics_ma/
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
Tax Justice Network

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/

Macro 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
Hans Jørgen Whitta-Jacobsen
Henrik Jensen
Holger Strulik
Jean-Paul Fitoussi
Jeffrey Frankel
Jonathan Temple
Jordi Gali

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

 

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

Lectures: Tuesdays 13-15: CSS 7.0.18.
Class (Niklas Brønager): Thursdays 8-10: CSS 7.0.22.
Course starts Febr. 4, 2014.

Lectures and notes    
   
     Diverse course other material

 

  Exercises
 
Internal evaluation in Week 11. Results are available in Absalon. Errata
External evaluation in Week 19. Results are available in Absalon. Homework/workshop assignment  
  Answers to email questions of relevance for the exam.
Previous exams
 
 
Electronic exam  
The Five Commandments of Written Exam Computation, simulation
 
Previous Economic Growth
Courses
: 2000 and 2001,
2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011; 2012; 2013
Supplementary material
Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century.
Solow interview on Equitable Growth
Paul Romer's idea of Charter Cities
   

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