Descriptif

Course Description:
This course provides an introduction to modern economic growth. 

Contents: 

Lecture 1: Neoclassical Growth Model I.

Lecture 2: Neoclassical Growth Model II.

Lecture 3:  Public Policies in the Neoclassical growth model  

Lecture 4:  Wealth and inequalities  

Lecture 5: Structural Transformation

Lecture 6: The overlapping generations model

Lecture 7: Public policies and bubbles in the overlapping-generations model

Lecture 8 Technological Change. Product Variety Model

Lecture 9: Schumpeterian growth

Lecture 10: Trust and growth

Textbooks:

Daron Acemoglu, Introduction to Modern Economic Growth, Princeton University Press. 

Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt, The Economics of Growth, MIT Press. 

Course site: https://sites.google.com/site/eco553x/

Niveau requis : avoir suivi ECO431

Langue du cours : Anglais

Credits ECTS : 4