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1 Faculté des sciences sociales Département d économique Professeur: Lloyd Paquin Automne 2011 Bureau: 2168 pavillon J-A-De-Sève Tel.: Courrier électronique: Heures de consultation: 13h30 à 14h30 le lundi et 12h30 à 13h30 le jeudi. ECN-7110A Croissance et fluctuations Manuels : - Aghion, P. et P. Howitt (2010). L Économie de la croissance, Paris, France, Ed. Economica. Barro, R.J. et X. Sala-i-Martin (2003). Economic Growth, 2ième édition, Cambridge MA, MIT Press. Modèles de croissance néo-classique: Barro, R.J. (1974). "Are Government Bonds Net Wealth?, Journal of Political Economy, 66, 6 (December), pp Becker, G., K. Murphy et R. Tamura (1990). "Human Capital Fertility, and Economic Growth," Journal of Political Economy, 98, 5 (October), part II, pp. S12-S37. Cass, D. (1965)."Optimum Growth in an Aggregative Model of Capital Accumulation." Review of Economic Studies, 32(July), pp Cass, D. et M.E. Yaari (1967). "Individual Savings, Aggregate Capital Accumulation, and Efficient Growth," Karl Shell, ed., Essays on the Theory of Optimal Economic Growth, Cambridge MA, MIT Press, pp Denison, E.F. (1967). Why Growth Rates Differ, Washington D.C., The Brookings Institution. Denison, E.F. (1974).Accounting for United States Economic Growth , Washington D.C., The Brookings Institution. 1

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3 Acemoglu, D.,the Fundamen as Robinson, J. A. et Johnson, S. (2005). Institutions as the Fundamental Cause of Long-Run Growth, Dans Aghion, P. et S.N. Durland (eds), Handbook of Ecoomic Growth, Elsevier North-Holland. Aghion, P., A. ) F. Trebbi (2004). Endogenous Political Institutions, Quartely Journal of Economics, 119, Aghion, P. (2002), "Schumpeterian Growth Theory and the Dynamics of Income Inequality, "Econometrica, 70, 6, pp Aghion, P. et P. Howitt (1992). "A Model of Growth through Creative Destruction," Econometrica, 60, 2, pp Aghion, P. et P. Howitt (1994). "Growth and Unemployment," Review of Economic Studies, 61, pp Aghion, P. et P. Howitt (1998). Endogenous Growth Theory, Cambridge, MA, MIT Press. Alesina, A. et D. Rodrik (1994). "Distributive Politics and Economic Growth", Quarterly Journal of Economics, 109, 2(May), pp Atkinson, A. (1996). "Bringing Income Distribution in from the Cold," Presidential Address to the Royal Economic Society, Swansea. Baily, M. et R.J. Gordon (1988). "The Productivity Slowdown, Measurement Issues, and the Explosion of Computer Power," Brooking Papers on Baldwin, R.E., P. Martin et G.I.P. Ottaviano (2001), "Global Income Divergence, Trade, and Industralization: The Geography of Growth Take-Offs", Journal of Economic Growth, 6,1 pp Banerjee, A. et L. Iyer (2005). History, Institutions, and Economic Performance: The Legacy Of Colonial Land Tenure Systems in India, American Economic Review, 95, Barro, R.J. (1990). "Government Spending in a Simple Model Of Endogenous Growth," Journal of Political Economy, 98, 5 (October), part II, pp. S103-S125. Barro. R.J. (2000), "Inequality and Growth in a Panel of Countries", Journal of Economic Growth, 5,1(March), pp Barro. R.J. (2001). "Human Capital and Growth", American Economic Review, 91,2(May), pp Benabou, R. (1996a). "Inequality and Growth," B.S. Bernanke et J. Rotemberg, eds., NBER Macroeconomic Annual 11, Cambridge, MA, MIT Press. Benabou, R. (1996b). "Heterogeneity, Stratification, and Growth: Macroeconomic Implications of Community Structure and School Finance," American Economic Review, 86, 3 (September), pp Benabou, R. (2002). "Tax and Education Policy in a Heterogeneous-Agent Economy: What Levels of Redistribution Maximize Growth and Efficiency? ", Econometrica, 70, 6, pp Burtless, G. (1995). "International Trade and the Rise in Earnings Inequality", Journal of Economic Literature, 33, pp Caballé, J. (1995). "Endogenous Growth, Human Capital and Bequests in a Life-Cycle Model," Oxford Economic Papers, 47, 1, pp Card, D. et A. Krueger (1992). "Does School Quality Matter? Returns to Education and the Characteristics of Public Schools in the United States," Journal of Political Economy, 100, pp

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