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Growth Study Guide
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Introduction
What you should know about growth
An analogy to understand growth
Preliminaries
Levels and growth rates
Logs and percents
Intuition of e and natural log
Logs and lines
Calculus for growth rates
Measuring GDP
Two goods and two time periods
Many goods
Real GDP over time
Cash money
Quarterly growth
Real GDP across 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
Capital accumulation
Capital and Chinese growth
Simulating growth
Old school Solow
An exact solution
Long Term Growth Model
The balanced growth path
Level differences
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
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
Case studies
Immigration and growth
Missing innovation
Taxes, government, and growth
Artificial Intelligence
Comparative Development
Development accounting
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
Test material
Test II
Test 2 Reference Material
African economies
These figures show select information for Ethiopia (ETH), Botswana (BWA), and South Africa (ZAF).
GDP per capita
Gross capital formation share
Years of education
Theoretical paths
Log GDP per capita
Growth rate of GDP per capita