Additional Citations for

The Macroeconomic Facts

This list only cites papers that are mentioned in the lectures. It is not intended as an extended reading list. For extended readings on many growth-related topics consult Jon Temple's site, Economic Growth Resources., or Chad Jones' evolving reference list.

Acemoglu, Daron, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson (2002): "Reversal of fortune: Geography and institutions in the making of the modern world income distribution." Quarterly Journal of Economics, 117(4):1231-1294.

Baumol, William J. (1986): "Productivity growth, convergence, and welfare: what the long-run data show." American Economic Review, 76(5):1072-1085.

Baumol, William J., Edward N. Wolff (1988): "Productivity growth, convergence, and welfare: reply." American Economic Review, 78:1155-1159.

Ben-David, Dan (1993): "Equalizing exchange: trade liberalization and convergence." Quarterly Journal of Economics, 108(3):653-79.

Ben-David, Dan, and David Papell (1995): "The great wars, the great crash, and the unit root hypothesis." Journal of Monetary Economics, 435-475.

De Long, Bradford (1988): "Productivity growth, convergence and welfare: comment." American Economic Review, 78:1138-1154.

Jones, Charles I. (1995): "Time Series Tests of Endogenous Growth Models." Quarterly Journal of Economics, 110:495-525.

Jones, Charles I. (2001): "Was an industrial revolution inevitable?" Advances in Macroeconomics, 1(2):Article 1.

Jones,Charles I. (2000): "A note on the closed-form solution of the  Solow model." Unpublished, Stanford University.

Kremer, Michael (1993): "Population growth and technological change: One million BC to 1990." Quarterly Journal of Economics, 108(3):681-716.

Lucas, Robert E. (1993): "Making a miracle." Econometrica, 61(2):251-272.

Maddison, Angus (1994): "Explaining the economic performance of nations 1820-1989." In W.J. Baumol et al. (eds.), Convergence and Productivity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 20-61.

Pritchett, Lant (1997): "Divergence, big time." Journal of Economic Perspectives, 11(3):3-17.

Quah, Danny (1996): "Empirics for economic growth and convergence." European Economic Review, 40:1353-1375.

Solow, Robert M. (1956): "A Contribution to the Theory of Economic Growth." Quarterly Journal of Economics, 70:65-94. 

Data

Heston, Alan , Robert Summers and Bettina Aten (2002): Penn World Table Version 6.1, Center for International Comparisons at the University of Pennsylvania (CICUP), October 2002. (i) Official Site, (ii) Alternative format with additional options for data extraction.