Center |
Faculty of Economics |
Departament |
Economic Analysis |
Lecturers in charge |
Sin datos cargados |
Met. Docent |
Theory class attendance and practical class work. A work of research must also be completed and actively defended. Coordinator: MATILDE MAS IVARS |
Met. Avaluació |
Final examination and project work |
Bibliografia |
Barro, R. y X. Sala-i-Martín (1994), Economic Growth, McGraw Hill Barro, R. y X. Sala-i-Martín (1992): ôConvergenceö, Journal of Political Economy, 100, 2, 223-251. Baumol, W. (1986) ôProductivity Growth, Convergence and Welfare: What the Long-Run Data Showö, American Economic Review, 76,5, 1072-1085 |
Continguts |
The subject presents, in the theoretical part, a panoramic view of the modern explanatory theories of economic growth as well as the empiric evidence of experiences of growth of Spain, the countries of the EU and of the OECD. Theory combination and empiric evidence is, as a result a relevant characteristic of the subject. PROGRAM: I. INTRODUCTION II. THE SOLOW-SWAN PATTERN III. MODELS OF ENDOGENOUS GROWTH (I) IV. MODELS OF GROWTH WITH OPTIMIZATION IN THE CONSUMPTION V MODELS OF ENDOGENOUS GROWTH (II) VI HUMAN CAPITAL AND GROWTH VII. GROWTH AND CONVERGENCE VIII. GROWTH IN SPAIN IX. GROWTH IN THE COUNTRIES OF THE OE |