Department of Economics
University of
Wisconsin-Madison
Professor Maria Muniagurria
7424 Social Science
Phone:263-3865
Email: munia@ssc.wisc.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays:
Thursday: 11am-
PROBLEM SETS:
Handout
from A. Young "The Tyranny of Numbers:Confronting
the Statistical realities of the East Asian Growth
Experience."
Handout
from A.
Young "A Tale of Two Cities: Factor and Technical Change in
Handout from Jones Ch.3
"Empirical Applications of Neoclassical Growth Models."
Handout
Multiple Regression Model
Handout
on
"Colonial Origins of Comparative development....." from Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson.
Selected Pages from Krueger, Alan B.
and Lindahl, Mikael, "Education for Growth: Why and For Whom?"
Handout
on Eaton-Kortum
Handout on Growth and
Inequality
Excel Simulations of Solow Model (written by Prof. Scott Taylor)
(1)Simulations
Solow Model with population growth and
without
technological change (countries differ in population growth parameter)
(2)Simulations
Solow Model with population growth and
without technological
change (countries differ in savings rate)
(3)Simulations
Solow Model with population growth and
technological change
(countries differ in initial technology parameter A)
(4)Simulations
Solow Model with population growth and
technological change
(countries differ in savings rates)
Acemoglu, D. Johnson, Robinson,
"The
Colonial Origins of Comparative development: an Empirical
Investigation"
, AAE Dec 2001.
JSTOR link
*Brock, William A. and Taylor, M. Scott Scott, "The Green Solow Model" (May 31, 2004). Social Science Research Institute Working Paper No. 2004-16. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=555262
*Dahlin, B., “The
Impact of Education on Economic Growth: Theory, Findings and Policy
Implications, Working Paper,
Eaton, J. and
*Easterly and Levine, "Tropics, Germs and
Crops:
How Endownments Influence Economic
Development"
, by, NBER Working Paper 9106. Journal of Monetary Economics,50,
January 2003. Science
Direct Link (smaller print)
*Greenwald and Stiglitz: Helping
Infant Economies Grow: Foundations of Trade Policies for Developing
Countries,
AER, May 2006
Sukiassyan, Grigory, "Inequality
and Growth: What does the Transition Economy Data Say?", Journal of
Compartive Economics, 2007 (selected pages)
*Jones, C. "R&D- Based Models of Economic Growth" , by JPE August 1995.
*Kremer, Michael Schools,
Teachers, and Education Outcomes in Developing Countries," (with
Paul Glewwe), forthcoming in Handbook on the Economics of Education
Prescott and Parente , Barriers to Riches (selected pages )
Subramanian, Arvind and Roy, Devesh, "Who Can Explain The Mauritian Miracle: Meade, Romer, Sachs or Rodrik?" (August 2001). IMF Working Paper No. 01/116Young, A., "A Tale of Two Cities: Factor and Technical Change in Hong Kong and Singapore," by Alwyn Young, 1992 NBER Macroeconomics Annual.
Young, A., "The Tyranny of Numbers: Confronting the Statistical Realities of the East Asian Growth Experience" QJE, 1995.
Additional items/Interesting
Papers
Comments from Krugman and Stiglitz on East
Asian Growth.
"Roots
of
Development," The Economist, October 2002.
Instrumental
Variables
"International Trade and Domestic Institutions: the medieval response
to
globalization" Dan
Trefler's presentation
Asian
Growth and African Development," Michael Kremer and Marcos
Chamon, forthcoming in AER Papers and Proceedings
The World Bank: Economic Growth Research Page
Michele
Boldrin Notes on Growth and
Development