INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS (advanced)

(this section is to be considered ALWAYS (!) provisory – last update: december 2014)

Program:

The course provides insights on income distribution, in particular focusing on the linkages between economic growth and development and income inequality. It further focuses on globalization and its positive and negative effects on international and national aspects of world income distribution. Theoretical tools will be provided, statistical measures and recent empirical literature on the subject will be reviewed and analyzed.

Texts:

Reading list of papers (with internet addresses for downloading) + a short document with the extended AK growth model

Here a PDF document on the relation among the rise in “within” inequality, technological change and globalization, mainly figures and tables (UPDATED 2014)

Examination:

The final mark is an average between the written exam and a written report

Report project: to be decided with the professor. Max of 12 points.

Written examination: six questions - each question has a maximum score of 6 points: the final mark is the sum of scores obtained in the answers (total maximum: 36; scores greater than 30 become “30 e lode”).

Students who provide a report (if one) may choose 4 question. Their final mark will be the sum of scores in written exams + the report score.

Here an example of EXAM QUESTIONS (exercises discussed in class in academic year 2011-2012).

Data and other stuff:

Here a section with a few useful data.

- address of downloadable distribution data from WIID database (form UNU-WIDER United Nations University): https://www.wider.unu.edu/download/WIID3.3

- Link to World Development Indicators - World Bank (many useful data):

http://databank.worldbank.org/data/views/variableSelection/selectvariables.aspx?source=world-development-indicators

- Here a few simple EXCEL simulations, with two models of catching-up (Sachs and Lucas)

- Not active (Old page with details on the decomposition of the Theil index, an index of concentration used in different papers of the reading list)

NEW: reports material a.a. 2015-2016

- Two papers of Robert Barro, as a guidelines for reports 2015, published in 2000 and 2008

- Synthetic bibliographical references for reports 2014 (it includes Barro 2008)

- prof. assessment for reports 2015-2016 HERE