ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS
DEPARTMENT
OF INTERNATIONAL AND EUROPEAN ECONOMIC STUDIES
Course: Macroeconomics I (PhD
Program)
Course
Outline (general, by S. Kalyvitis) 
Lecture slides, Spring 2009 (S. Kalyvitis)
Lecture 1: The
Centralized Economy (Download
PDF)
Previous Material
Lectures by
E. Dinopoulos (Outline in pdf
)
Lecture 1:
Preliminaries in Growth Theory (Slides in
Powerpoint: Part A, Part B)
Lecture 3:
Scale Effects and Schumpeterian Growth (Slides in Powerpoint)
Lecture 4:
Rent-Protection and Schumpeterian Growth (Slides in Powerpoint)
Background Material
Romer,
Paul, (1990), “Endogenous
Technological Change”, Journal of
Political Economy, 98, S71-S102.
Grossman,
Gene and Elhanan Helpman, (1991),
“Quality Ladders in the Theory of Growth”, The Review of
Economic Studies, 58.
Dinopoulos, Elias and Peter Thompson, (1999), “Scale Effects in neo-Schumpeterian Models of Growth”, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 9, 157-185.
Dinopoulos, Elias and Fuat Sener, (2007), “New Directions in Schumpeterian Growth Theory”, in Hanusch H. and A. Pyka, eds., Edgar Companion to Neo-Schumpeterian Economics, Edward Elgar, forthcoming.
Dinopoulos, Elias and Constantinos Syropoulos, (2007), “Rent Protection as a Barrier to Innovation and Growth”, Economic Theory, forthcoming.
Dinopoulos, Elias, (2007), “Growth in Open Economies, Schumpeterian Models”, in K. Reinert and R. Rajan, (eds), Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy, Princeton University Press, forthcoming.
Lecture Notes
by
E. Pappa:
Lecture 2: Handout
Lecture 3: Handout
Programs in MATLAB
Lecture Notes by S. Panageas:
Syllabus
Notes (part 1)
Notes (part 2)
Some related and useful papers (downloadable):
N. G. Mankiw (2006), "The Macroeconomist as Scientist and Engineer", Journal of Economic Perspectives, 20, 4, 29–46.
V. V. Chari and Patrick J. Kehoe (2006), "Modern Macroeconomics in Practice: How Theory Is Shaping Policy", Journal of Economic Perspectives, 20, 4, 3–28.
M. Goodfriend (2004), "Monetary Policy in the New Neoclassical Synthesis: A Primer", Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.
S. Turnovsky (2003)), "Old and New Growth Theories: A Unifying Structure?", in N. Salvadori (ed.), Old and New Growth Theories: An Assessment", Edward Elgar.
WRITING A PAPER IN ECONOMICS
Thomson W. (1999), "The Yound Person's Guide in Writing Economic Theory", Journal of Economic Literature, March, 157-183.
John Cochrane (2005), "Writing Tips for PhD students".
"How to publish in top journals" by Kwan Choi.
John Cawley (2004), "GUIDE (AND ADVICE) FOR ECONOMISTS ON THE U. S. JUNIOR ACADEMIC JOB MARKET"
"The Ten Most Important Rules in Writing Your Job Market Paper" by Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz.
Robert Neugeboren with Mireille Jacobson (2001), "Writing Economics".
Elmer Sterken (2004), "How to Write an Economics Paper".
The following books are extremely helpful in preparing an economics paper:
William Thomson, A Guide for the Young Economist, MIT Press (2001).
Deirdre McCloskey, Economical Writing, Second Edition, Waveland Pr Inc; 2 edition (1999).
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