University of Toronto
Department of Economics
Eco2704H1F Topics
in Growth and Development
Fall 2010
Instructor: Professor Xiaodong Zhu
Office: Max Gluskin
House, 150 St. George Street, Room 200
Phone: (416)978-7134 (St. George campus)
Email: xzhu@chass.utoronto.ca
Office Hour: Wednesday 10:00am-11:00am
Some basic facts about the evolution of international income
levels and the literature on development accounting—model based accounting for cross-country
income differences.
My lecture
notes on development accounting
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Week
Two (September 22)
Structural Transformation: My
lecture notes on two basic models of structural transformation
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Week
Three (September 29)
Canceled due to personal reason. Rescheduled to October 15
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Week
Four (October 6)
More on structural transformation models
Eaton-Kortum model
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Week
Five (October 13)
Eaton-Kortum model (My
lecture slides, updated on October 13)
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Make
up class (Friday, October 15, GE168)
Melitz model (My
lecture slides, updated on October 15)
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Week
Six (October 20)
Benjamin Moll “Productivity Loss from Financial Frictions:
Can Self-Financing Undo Capital Misallocation?” (My
lecture slides, updated October 20)
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Week
Seven (October 27) Presentation by Lisa Glynn
Dave Donaldson “Railroads of the Raj: Estimating the
Impact of Transportation Infrastructure.”
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Make
up class (Friday, October 29, GE100) Presentation by Paul Kara
Restuccia
and Rogerson “Policy Distortions and Aggregate
Productivity with Heterogeneous Plants” Review of Economic Dynamics, vol. 11(4), pages
707-720.
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Week
Eight (November 3) Presentation by Jie Cao
Yi and Zhang “Structural Change in an Open Economies”
· Week Nine (November 10)
No class. Rescheduled to October 29.
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Week
Ten (November 19) Presentation by Leandro Freylejer
Ricardo Lagos “A Model of TFP” Review of
Economic Studies 73(4) (October 2006): 983-1007
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Week Elven
(November 26)
Buera, Kaboski
and Shin "Finance and
Development: A Tale of Two Sectors," NBER Working Papers 14914