Department
of Economics
University of
Wisconsin-Madison
Professor Maria Muniagurria
6418 Social Science
Phone:263-3865
Email: munia@ssc.wisc.edu
Wed 1.30-2.30
pm
Lecture Outlines/Notes/Figures Spring 2012 (the items below do not include all topics covered in lecture)
Week 1 D. Acemoglu Lecture Ch.1 (selected pages) of his book "Introduction to Economic Growth, " 2008, Pricneton Univ. Press.
Equations Ch.5 Model
Equations Ch.6 Model
Equations Ch. 9 Model
Date Room
PROBLEM SETS
Problem Set 2 (due Th February 16
in lecture)
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
Lab Session
Weil's Economic Growth Data/Plotter
Penn World Tables
World Development
Indicators
Diego
Comin's Web Page (tech.
adoption data)
CEPAL
Data (Latin America)
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)
SS11
Additional Readings:
Mauritius
: African Sucess Story ,
NBER Digest, May 2011
Technology Diffusion and
Postwar Growth, NBER
Digest February 2011
Green Solow Paper (Taylor and Brock)
Solow Lecture on
Sustainability
Galor: Income Inequality, Human Capital and Development
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
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 Comparative 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://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=223589
Prescott and Parente , Barriers to Riches (selected pages )
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:
Lecture Notes Graduate Course on Economic Growth by Acemoglu, Daron. 14.452 Economic Growth, Fall 2009. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare), http://ocw.mit.edu . License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
The World Bank: Economic Growth Research Page
Michele
Boldrin Notes on Growth
and Development