TOPICS IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY

FALL 2005

Syllabus (updated November 6, 2005) 

Some Links:

Charles Jones data page

The CIA Factbook (Highly recommended)

Penn World Tables (Toronto Version with Version 5.6 with capital stock data)

Penn World Tables (Penn Version with 6.1)

World Bank Atlas and PPP Income data

Brad de Long and Joel Mokyr on Diamond

Data on Carbon Emissions

BIS Data on International Banking

Nouriel Roubini's website

World Bank "Doing Business" data

Capital stock per worker

World Development Indicators

World Trade Organization

Lecture notes

Notes on MRW

Notes on Hall and Jones

The Solow model with MRW’s augmented version: Discrete Time

Population Data (1500-2002)

GDP per Capita (1500-2002)

Maddison data for 49 countries 1870-2001

Solow model spreadsheet

Hall and Jones decomposition of GDP per worker

Assignments:

Readings:

Roubini and Backus Lectures

Mankiw, Romer, and Weil (JSTOR)

Hall and Jones (JSTOR)

Krugman (JSTOR)

Cole, Ohanian, Riascos, and Schmitz

Sachs (Tropical Underdevelopment)

Deardorff

Edmonds and Pavcnik

Hatton and Williamson

Harrison

Pavcnik and Edwards

Some programs and data

Diffusion Program

CO2 Analysis