Readings

Abel, A., and O. Blanchard. "An Intertemporal Equilibrium Model of Saving and Investment." Econometrica 51, no. 3 (May 1983): 675-692.

Abel, A. B., N. G. Mankiw, L. H. Summers, and R. J. Zeckhauser. "Assessing Dynamic Inefficiency: Theory and Evidence." Review of Economic Studies 56, no. 1 (January 1989): 1-20.

Acemoglu, D. "Directed Technological Change." NBER Working Paper 8287 (2001).

Acemoglu, D., and F. Zilibotti. "Was Prometheus Unbound by Chance? Risk, Diversification, and Growth." Journal of Political Economy 105, no. 4 (August 1997): 709-751.

Acemoglu, D., and J. Ventura. "The World Income Distribution." NBER Working Paper 8083 (2001).

Acemoglu, D., S. Johnson, and J. Robinson. "The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation." NBER Working Paper 7771 (2000).

Aghion, P., and P. Howitt. Endogenous Growth Theory. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1998, chaps. 1-3 and 10.

Aghion, P., and P. Howitt. "A Model of Growth Through Creative Destruction." Econometrica 60, no. 2 (1992): 323-351.

Aiyagari, S. R. "Uninsured Idiosyncratic Risk and Aggregate Saving." Quarterly Journal of Economics 109, no. 3 (1994): 659-84.

Angeletos, G. M. "Entrepreneurial and Capital Income Risk in the Neoclassical Growth Model." MIT mimeo, 2003.

Angeletos, G. M. "Fiscal Policy with Non-Contingent Debt and the Optimal Maturity Structure." Quarterly Journal of Economics 117, no. 3 (August 2002): 1105-1131.

Banarjee, A., and A. Newman. "Occupational Choice in the Process of Development." Journal of Political Economy 101, no. 2 (April 1993): 274-298.

Barro, R. J. "Are Government Bonds Net Wealth?" Journal of Political Economy 82, no. 6 (1974): 1095-1117.

Barro, R. J. Determinants of Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Empirical Study. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1997.

Barro, R. J. "Government Spending in a Simple Model of Endogenous Growth." Journal of Political Economy 98, no. 5, pt. 2 (October 1990): S103-S125.

Barro, R. J. "The Neoclassical Approach to Fiscal Policy." In Modern Business Cycle Theory. Edited by R. Barro. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989.

Barro, R. J. "On the Determination of the Public Debt." Journal of Political Economy 87, no. 5, pt. 1 (October 1979): 940-71.

Barro, R. J. "Ramsey Meets Laibson in the Neoclassical Growth Model." Quarterly Journal of Economics 114, no. 4 (1999): 1125-1152.

Barro, R. J., and X. Sala-i-Martin. Economic Growth. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995, chaps. 1-7, 12, and appendix to chap. 3.

Barro, R. J., and X. Sala-i-Martin. "Public Finance in Models of Economic Growth." Review of Economic Studies 59, no. 4 (October 1992): 645-662.

Barro, R. J., and X. Sala-i-Martin. "Technological Diffusion, Convergence, and Growth." Journal of Economic Growth 2, no. 1 (1995): 1-26.

Baxter, M., and R. King. "Fiscal Policy in General Equilibrium." American Economic Review 78, no. 3 (1988): 315-334.

Bernanke, B., and M. Gertler. "Agency Costs, Collateral, and Business Fluctuations." American Economic Review 79, no. 1 (1989): 87-114.

Blanchard, O. "Debt, Deficits and Finite Horizons." Journal of Political Economy 93, no. 2 (1985): 223-247.

Blanchard, O., and R. Perotti. "An Empirical Characterization of the Dynamic Effects of Changes in Government Spending and Taxes Output." Quarterly Journal of Economics 117, no. 4 (November 2002): 1329-1368; NBER Working Paper 7269 (2001).

Blanchard, O., and S. Fischer. Lectures on Macroeconomics. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1989, chap. 3 and sections 5.1-5.2, 10.1, and 11.3.

Brezis, E., P. R. Krugman, and D. Tsiddon. "Leapfrogging in International Competition: A Theory of Cycles in National Technological Leadership." American Economic Review 83, no. 5 (1993): 1211-1219.

Brock, W., and L. J. Mirman. "Optimal Economic Growth and Uncertainty: The Discounted Case." Journal of Economic Theory 4 (1972): 197-513.

Caballero, R. "Consumption Puzzles and Precautionary Saving." Journal of Monetary Economics 25 (1990): 113-136.

Caballero, R., and A. Jaffe. "How High Are the Giants' Shoulders?" NBER Macroeconomics Annual, vol. 8. Edited by O. Blanchard and S. Fischer. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1993, pp. 15-74.

Caballero, R. J., and M. L. Hammour. "Speculative Growth." NBER Working Paper 9381 (2002).

Caselli, F., and J. Ventura. "A Representative Consumer Theory of Distribution." American Economic Review 90, no. 4 (2000): 909-926.

Cass, D. "Optimum Growth in an Aggregative Model of Capital Accumulation." Review of Economic Studies 32, no. 3 (July 1965): 233-240.

Cass, D. "Optimum Growth in an Aggregative Model of Capital Accumulation: A Turnpike Theorem." Econometrica 34, no. 4 (1966): 833-850.

Chamley, C. "Optimal Taxation of Capital Income in General Equilibrium with Infinite Lives." Econometrica 54, no. 3 (May 1986): 607-22.

Chari, V. V., and P. Kehoe. "Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy." NBER Working Paper 6891 (1999).

Cole, H., G. Mailath, and A. Postlewaite. "Social Norms, Savings Behavior, and Growth." Journal of Political Economy 100, no. 6 (1992): 1092-1125.

Diamond, P. "National Debt in a Neoclassical Growth Model." American Economic Review 55, no. 5 (1965): 1126-1150.

Feldstein, M. "The Optimal Level of Social Security Benefits." Quarterly Journal of Economics 100, no. 2 (1985): 303-320.

Galor, O., and J. Zeira. "Income Distribution and Macroeconomics." Review of Economic Studies 60, no. 1 (January 1993): 35-52.

Greenwood, J., and B. Jovanovic. "Financial Development, Growth, and the Distribution of Income." Journal of Political Economy 98, no. 5, pt. 1 (October 1990): 1076-1107.

Grossman, G. M., and E. Helpman. "Quality Ladders in the Theory of Economic Growth." Review of Economic Studies 58, no. 1 (January 1991): 43-61.

Hall, R., and C. Jones. "Why Do Some Countries Produce So Much More Output than Others?" Quarterly Journal of Economics 114, no. 1 (1999): 83-116.

Jones, C. "On the Evolution of the World Income Distribution." Journal of Economic Perspectives 11, no. 1 (1997): 19-36.

Jones, C. "R&D-Based Models of Economic Growth." Journal of Political Economy 103, no. 4 (1995): 759-784.

Jones, L., and R. Manuelli. "A Convex Model of Equilibrium Growth." Journal of Political Economy 98, no. 5, pt. 1 (1990): 1008-1038.

King, R., and S. Rebelo. "Resuscitating Real Business Cycles." Chap. 14 in Handbook of Macroeconomics. Edited by M. Woodford, and J. Taylor. Vol. 1B. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1999.

Krugman, P. R. "A Model of Innovation, Technology Transfer, and the World Distribution of Income." Journal of Political Economy 87, no. 2 (1979): 253-266.

Kydland, F., and E. C. Prescott. "Time to Build and Aggregate Fluctuations." Econometrica 50, no. 6 (1982): 1345-1370.

Laibson, D. "Golden Eggs and Hyperbolic Discounting." Quarterly Journal of Economics 112, no. 2 (1997): 443-478.

Lucas, R. E., Jr. "Asset Prices in an Exchange Economy." Econometrica 46, no. 6 (1978): 1429-1445.

Lucas, R. E., Jr. "Making a Miracle." Econometrica 61, no. 2 (1993): 251-272.

Lucas, R. E., Jr. "On the Mechanics of Economic Development." Journal of Monetary Economics 22 (1988): 3-42.

Lucas, R. E., Jr. "Why Doesn't Capital Flow from Rich to Poor Countries?" American Economic Review 80, no. 2 (1990): 92-96.

Lucas, R. E., Jr., and N. L. Stokey. "Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy in an Economy without Capital." Journal of Monetary Economics 12 (1983): 55-93.

Mankiw, N. G., D. Romer, and D. Weil. "A Contribution to the Empirics of Economic Growth." Quarterly Journal of Economics 107, no. 2 (1992): 407-437.

Modigliani, F. "Life Cycle, Individual Thrift, and the Wealth of Nations." American Economic Review 76, no. 3 (1986): 297-313.

Obstfeld, M. "Risk-Taking, Global Diversification, and Growth." American Economic Review 84, no. 5 (1994): 1310-1329.

Parente, S. L., and E. C. Prescott. "Barriers to Technology Adoption and Development." Journal of Political Economy 102, no. 2 (1994): 298-321.

Ramsey, F. P. "A Mathematical Theory of Saving." Economic Journal 38, no. 152 (1928): 543-559.

Rebelo, S. "Long-Run Policy Analysis and Growth." Journal of Political Economy 99, no. 3 (1991): 500-521.

Rivera-Batiz, L., and P. Romer. "Economic Integration and Endogenous Growth." Quarterly Journal of Economics 106, no. 2 (1991): 531-556.

Romer, D. Advanced Macroeconomics. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2001, chaps. 1, 2-A, 2-B, 3-A, and 7.

Romer, P. M. "Endogenous Technological Change." Journal of Political Economy 98, no. 1 (1990): 71-102.

Romer, P. M. "Increasing Returns and Long-Run Growth." Journal of Political Economy 94, no. 5 (1986): 1002-1037.

Samuelson, P. A. "An Exact Consumption Loan Model of Interest with and without the Social Contrivance of Money." Journal of Political Economy  66, no. 6 (1958): 467-482.

Sidrausky, M. "Rational Choice and Patterns of Growth in a Monetary Economy." American Economic Review 77, no. 4 (1967): 534-544.

Skiba, A. K. "Optimal Growth with a Convex-Concave Production Function." Econometrica 46, no. 3 (1978): 527-539.

Solow, R. M. "A Contribution to the Theory of Economic Growth." Quarterly Journal of Economics 70, no. 1 (1956): 65-94.

Solow, R. M. Growth Theory: An Exposition. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970.

Stokey, N. L., and R. E. Lucas, Jr. Recursive Methods in Economic Dynamics. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989, chap. 2.

Summers, L. "Capital Taxation and Accumulation in a Life Cycle Growth Model." American Economic Review 71, no. 4 (1981): 533-544.

Tirole, J. "Asset Bubbles and Overlapping Generations." Econometrica 53, no. 6 (1985): 1499-1528.

Ventura, J. "Growth and Interdependence." Quarterly Journal of Economics 112, no. 1 (1997): 57-84.

Weil, P. "Precautionary Savings and the Permanent Income Hypothesis." Review of Economic Studies 60, no. 2 (April 1993): 367-383.

Young, A. "Invention and Bounded Learning by Doing." Journal of Political Economy 101, no. 3 (1993): 443-472.