ECONOMIC GROWTH RESOURCES

 

 

Some ideas for the empirical hand in/Algunas ideas para el trabajo empirico (Macroeconomia III)

 

International Data Sets

Robert Barro's data sets

 

Penn World Tables 5.6

Penn World Tables 6

World main indicators, compiled by Summers and Heston

 

World Bank

A high variety of data on development and growth. Very interesting to get familiarized with basic facts about countries, especially LDCs

 

Fraser institute

Economic freedom indicators

 

Groningen growth and development center

 

Key References

To have both a general overview of the recent contributions on growth, or to look for references on particular issues, you may want to take a look at either:

Jonathan Temple's website

Crucial papers organized by topics and by authors

Thompson's website

A useful alphabetical list of important papers

 

Researchers

Websites of some researchers on economic growth

(The list is NOT exhaustive, for a more thorough list of names you may prefer to go to Jonathan Temple's website)

Robert Barro

Charles Jones

Paul Krugman

Danny Quah

Paul Romer

Xavier Sala-i-Martin

Jonathan Temple

 

Suggestions for new inclusions are welcomed. Send me an e-mail to sanchezb@unican.es