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Part 1
Stylized facts of economic growth and development
Part 2
Introduction to the Solow growth model
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Problem set 1 out |
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Introduction to the Solow growth model (cont.) |
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Part 1
The Solow model and the data; growth accounting, levels accounting, and the facts
Part 2
Fundamental causes of income differences
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Foundations of Neoclassical growth; representative customers, optimal and competitive allocations, welfare theorems |
Problem set 1 due one day after Ses #4 and problem set 2 out |
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Neoclassical growth |
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Overlapping generations and dynamic efficiency |
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Neoclassical endogenous growth: capital accumulation and externalities |
Problem set 2 due one day after Ses #7 |
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Human capital and growth |
Problem set 3 out |
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Endogenous growth with expanding input varieties |
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Interdependences: technology diffusion, trade and the world income distribution in an open economy |
Problem set 3 due |
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Schumpeterian models |
Problem set 4 out |
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Directed technical change: endogenous skill-bias and endogenous labor-augmenting technological change |
Problem set 4 due three days after Ses #12 |
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Optimal and competitive growth under uncertainty |
Final exam seven days after Ses #13 |