Department of
Economics
University of
Wisconsin-Madison
Discussion Sections:
DIS 301 F 11:00-11:50AM 6322
Sewell Social Sciences
DIS 303 F 1:20-2:10PM 4322
Sewell Social Sciences
Professor Maria Muniagurria
6418 Social Science
Phone:263-3865
Email: munia@ssc.wisc.edu
Office Hours: Tue 2.45-3.45 pm
Wed
1.30-2.30 pm
TA: Heewoo
(Hugh) Kang
hkang26@wisc.edu
Office Hours: TBA
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.
Week 2
Week 8 Useful Equation of Growth of Outpur Per worker (no proof) Handout on Tools Jones 5
Equations Ch.5 Model
Equations Ch.6 Model
Equations Ch. 9 Model
Date
Room
Exam
1 AK
Thursday February
23
Exam
2
AK
Thursday March 29 (last class before
Spring
break)
Exam 3 (non
cumulative)
Thursday May
10 (last day of
class)
PROBLEM SETS
Problem Set 1 (due Tu Feb 14 in lecture) Notice
change in due date Answer
Key
Problem Set 2 (due Tu February 21 in lecture) Notice
change in due date Answer Key
Country
Presentation Guidelines : Item
(III) due Tu March 13; Item (IV) due Tu April 17
(for feedback) or Tu April 24 (no feeback provided),
April26-May 8: Class presentations
Education Lab
Homework (due Fri March 9 in section) Dataset
Link
Problems Jones Ch. 5
(due Tu March 20 in lecture) Answer Key
Blog
Why Nations
Fail by D. Acemoglu and J. Robinson
Old Exams:
Summer 2011 Exam 2
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 Hong Kong and
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 (
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
Mauritius : African Sucess Story , NBER
Digest, May 2011
Technology Diffusion and
Postwar Growth, NBER Digest February 2011
Green
Solow Paper (
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 S. Kortum, "Trade in Capital Goods" European Economic review (45) 2001 (this is a version of the paper from Kortum's web page, skip pages 13-23)
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