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Instructors: Dr. rer. pol. Jakob Schwab; Juniorprofessorin Dr. Iryna Stewen
Event type:
Lecture
Displayed in timetable as:
V: Int Eco II
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Requirements / organisational issues:
In order to download the syllabus, the course material and further literature suggestions, please register to the course in ILIAS (https://ilias.uni-mainz.de).
Contents:
The course introduces basic and advanced concept in development economics from a macroeconomic perspective. The lecturer discusses primarily the determinants of growth and economic development. During the first part of the lecture we discuss the history of growth and development and introduce major growth theories such as the Solow model. The second part of the lecture deals with particular determinants of growth, namely inequality, financial market development, demography, education, trade, geography and governance. Students will also learn to identify causal links between economic growth and its determinants by using different econometric approaches.
Recommended reading list:
Weil, David (2012): Economic Growth (International Edition), Pearson Education Ltd., 3rd edition.
Roland, Gérard (2014): Development Economics, Pearson Education Ltd.
Ray, Debraj (1998): Development Economics, Princeton: Princeton University Press.
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