- Lecturer
- Naito Takumi
- Place
- Mon3-4(W9-626)
- Credits
- Lecture2 Exercise0 Experiment0
- Code
- 68065
- Syllabus updated
- 2010/9/28
- Lecture notes updated
- 2010/9/20
- Semester
- Fall Semester
Purpose of lecture
This lecture aims to master some advanced topics in growth theory. Materials may include (subject to change): endogenous technological change; technology diffusion, trade and interdependences; economic development and economic growth.
Plan of lecture
01. 10/04: introduction
02. 10/18: Ch12 Modeling Technological Change
03. 10/21: Ch13 Expanding Variety Models
04. 11/01: Ch13 continued
05. 11/08: Ch14 Models of Schumpeterian Growth
06. 11/15: Ch15 Directed Technological Change
07. 11/22: Ch15 continued
08. 11/29: midterm exam
09. 12/06: Ch18 Diffusion of Technology
10. 12/13: Ch19 Trade and Growth
11. 12/20: Ch19 continued
12. 01/17: Ch20 Structural Change and Economic Growth
13. 01/24: Ch21 Structural Transformations and Market Failures in Development
14. 01/31: Ch21 continued
Textbook and reference
textbook: Acemoglu, D., 2009. Introduction to Modern Economic Growth. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.
references:
Aghion, P., Howitt, P., 2009. The Economics of Growth. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
Barro, R. J., Sala-i-Martin, X., 2004. Economic Growth, Second Edition. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
Related and/or prerequisite courses
prerequisite: Advanced Macroeconomics I
Evaluation
midterm exam: 50%; final exam: 50%
