Economic Growth - Spring 2016
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
Ekonomistas
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
Center for Macroeconomics (CFM)
Institute for Economic Modelling
Resources
for Economists
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
NBER
OECD
Penn World Table:
http://pwt.econ.upenn.edu/
http://datacentre.chass.utoronto
Resources
for Economists
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
Environment:
www.lomborg.com
www.anti-lomborg.com
Sjak
Smulders
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
Simon Wren-Lewis
Thomas Sargent
Willem Buiter
Xavier
Sala-i-Martin
| GENERALITIES | LECTURES, EXERCISES AND SIMILAR |
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Lecturer: Christian Groth, email: chr.groth@econ.ku.dk General description of the course |
Course plan and syllabus (as updated 21/5 and now, 26/5, with "point IV.B and C" added to what was before a truncated sentence at I.D). |
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Lectures: Fridays 8-10: |
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Exercise class
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| Internal evaluation in Week 14, deadline Friday at 12:00. Results will become available in Absalon. | Errata to course material |
| External evaluation in Week 19 until 13/5 at 12:00. Results will become available in Absalon. |
Homework/workshop
assignment |
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Previous exams |
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| The Five Commandments of Written Exam |
Computation, simulation |
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Previous
Economic
Growth Courses: 2000 and 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011; 2012; 2013; 2014; 2015 |
Supplementary material, e.g.: The debate around
Piketty,
Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Solow interview on Equitable Growth. Paul Romer's idea of Charter Cities. |
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