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Growth Study Guide
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Introduction
What you should know about growth
Preliminaries
Levels and growth rates
Logs and percents
Intuition of e and natural log
Logs and lines
Calculus for growth rates
Measuring GDP
Real GDP growth
Two goods and two time periods
Many goods
Real GDP over time
Cash money
Quarterly growth
Real GDP across countries
Two countries
GDP per capita
Living standards
Comparisons with the past
Growth facts
Stable growth
Convergence and catch-up growth
Expenditure shares
Income and cost shares
Capital and returns
Balanced growth path
Solow and Balanced Growth
Production
Cost shares and elasticities
Constant returns and marginal products
Varieties of Goods
Accounting for growth
Accounting by products
Capital accumulation
Capital and Chinese growth
The balanced growth path
Level differences
Visualizing the Solow model
An exact solution
Long Term Growth Model
Old school Solow
Human capital
Revisiting accounting
Case studies
Will robots take the jobs?
Why is growth slowing down?
Ideas and Productivity
Non-rivalry
Research effort
Dynamics of productivity
Do ideas get harder to find?
Free Solo
Stability and visualization
Productivity and population
Incentives to innovate
Sampling and innovation
The Romer model
The Schumpeterian model
Wheely suitcases and moonshots
Competition and Growth
Competing through innovation
Firm size and innovation
Is there enough innovation?
Case studies
Immigration and growth
Missing innovation
Taxes, government, and growth
Artificial Intelligence
Stock market valuations
Comparative Development
Development accounting
Structural change
Diffusion of ideas
Is trade good for growth?
Misallocation
Social Infrastructure
Institutional Inertia
Population and Resources
Energy and growth
What about food?
Growth with natural resources
Pollution and growth
Malthusian Demographics
Was Thanos Right?
From Malthus to Solow
Modern Demographics
Test material
Test I
Test II
Test III
Class Material
Study Guide on GitHub
Solow and Balanced Growth
Accounting for growth
Accounting by products
Accounting by product
Accounting for growth
Accounting for growth
\[g_y = \sum_i \left(g_{Py} - g_{Pi} \right)\frac{C_i P_i}{PY}\]