Department of
Economics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Professor Maria Muniagurria
7424 Social Science
Phone:263-3865
Email: munia@ssc.wisc.edu
Office
Hours: Every day after class.
Additional Hours TBA before exams
Summer 2009:
Lecture 1
Lecture 2
Lecture 3
Lecture 4
Lecture 5
Lectures 6 and 7
Young-Aghion-Howitt
Handout
Krugman-Stiglitz Comments
Lecture8
Lecture 9
Lecture 10
Lecture11
Handout on Book Reviews of
Prescott-Parente: Pack
(one page),
Yi (one page)
Lecture 12
Lecture13
Lecture 14
Lecture15
Date
Room
Exam Answer Key
Wed June 3
6203
Soc. Science
Exam 2 Answer Key
Th June
11
6203 Soc. Science
Exam 3 Topics/readings
Fri June
19
6203 Soc. Science
PROBLEM SETS:
Problem Set 1 , Problems from book (due on Tu June 2 at 9 am) Answer Key Additional details for Jones Ex. 2 and 3
Problem Set 2 (due on
Wed June 10 at 9 am) Answer Key
Old Exams:
S07 Exam 1
S07 Exam 2
S07 Exam 3
Lecture Notes/ Other Notes from Previous
Semesters
Notes on
Returns
to Scale and Change of Variable
Lecture
Notes 1
Lecture
Notes 2
Solow without Technological Change
(analysis and comparative statics)
Golden
Rule
Savings rate (pages from Mankiw's Macroeconomics book)
Lecture
Notes 3
Solow with
Tech.
Change (comparative statics)
Handout
on Excel
Simulations
Lecture
Notes
on Jones Ch. 5
Lecture Notes on Jones Ch. 6
Lecture Notes on Jones Ch. 9 : Land Model
Non-renewable
Resource
Model
Lecture Notes on Eaton Kortum Part 1 (Static
Model)
Lecture Notes on Eaton Kortum Part 2 (Growth
Model)
HANDOUTS/ NOTES/ SIMULATIONS
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)
Albouy, David, The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Investigation of the Settler Mortality Data, 2006 .
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
Krueger, Alan B. and Lindahl, Mikael, "Education for Growth: Why and For Whom?" (January 2000). Princeton University, Industrial Relations Section Working Paper No. 429. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=223589
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.
01/116
Young, 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
Growth Report: Strategies for Sustained Growth and Inclusive Development
(Commission on Growth and Development, 2008)
Links:
The World Bank: Economic Growth Research Page
Michele
Boldrin Notes on Growth and Development