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CURSO:Topicos en Crecimiento Economico
TRADUCCION:Economic Growth
SIGLA:EAE3705
CREDITOS:10 Creditos UC / 6 creditos SCT
MODULOS:2
CARACTER:Optativo
TIPO:Catedra
CALIFICACION:Estandar
DISCIPLINA:Economia


I.DESCRIPCIÓN DEL CURSO

En este curso se examina, desde una perspectiva macroeconomica, la investigacion aplicada sobre crecimiento y desarrollo economico, y sus implicancias de politica para paises en desarrollo. Se enfatiza el rol de las instituciones politicas en el proceso de crecimiento y sus raices historicas. Se compara el proceso de crecimiento economico de Chile, America Latina, y el del resto del mundo. Aunque en menor medida, y con el fin de analizar mejor la evidencia empirica, tambien se examinan los principales desarrollos teoricos en el area.


II.OBJETIVOS DE APRENDIZAJE

1.Analizar el proceso de crecimiento y desarrollo economico.
2.Distinguir entre las distintas teorias que se han planteado para explicar dicho proceso y sus distintas implicancias de politica.
3.Manejar los metodos empiricos mas utilizados en esta area de investigacion
4.Dise?ar estrategias empiricas para testear determinadas hipotesis en trabajos de investigacion propios.


III.CONTENIDOS

1.?Porque nos interesa el desarrollo economico? El debate normativo.

2.Crecimiento y Desarrollo Economico: Hechos Estilizados

3.Teoria del Crecimiento Economico
3.1.Rendimientos Decrecientes: El modelo de Solow
3.2.Contabilidad del Crecimiento
3.3.Convergencia Absoluta y Condicional
3.4.Crecimiento Endogeno: Externalidades, Capital Humano e Innovacion

4.Determinantes Profundos del Crecimiento
4.1Instituciones
4.2Instituciones, Geografia, Capital Humano y Cultura

5.Desde los Determinantes Profundos a los Directos
5.1.Democracia y Crecimiento
5.2.Instituciones, Conflicto y Crecimiento
5.3.Instituciones, Desigualdad y Crecimiento.
5.4.La Maldicion de los Recursos Naturales.
5.5.Politicas Economicas.

6.La experiencia Latinoamericana y Chilena


IV.METODOLOGIA PARA EL APRENDIZAJE

-Clases lectivas
-Clases practicas de discusion de bibliografia

V.EVALUACION DE APRENDIZAJES

-Pruebas (40%)
-Examen (30%)
-Ensayo (30%).


VI.BIBLIOGRAFIA

Minimas:

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Press. Capitulo 1.

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Barro, R. y X. Sala-i-Martin (2004), Economic Growth Second Edition, The MIT Press. Capitulos 1,4 y 10.

Jones, C. (2012), Introduction to Economic Growth. Norton. Capitulos 4 y 5.

North, D. (1991) ?Institutions.? Journal of Economic Perspectives 5(1):97-112.

Acemoglu, D., S. Johnson y J. Robinson (2006) ?Institutions as the Fundamental Cause of Long-Run Growth.? en Aghion, P. and Durlauf, S. (eds.) Handbook of Economic Growth, Elsevier: Amsterdam.

Acemoglu, D., S. Johnson y J. Robinson (2002) ?Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution.? Quarterly Journal of Economics. 117:1231-1294.

Acemoglu, D., S. Johnson y J. Robinson (2001) ?The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation.? American Economic Review 91(5):1369?1401.

Chanda, A., J. Cook, y L. Putterman (2014) ?Persistence of Fortune: Accounting for Population Movements, There Was No Post-Columbian Reversal,? American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 6(3): 1?28.

Levine, R. (2005) ?Law, Endowments and Property Rights." Journal of Economic Perspectives: 19(3):61-88.

Besley, T. y T. Persson (2014), ?The Causes and Consequences of Development Clusters: State Capacity, Peace and Income,? Annual Review of Economics. 6: 927-949.

Acemoglu, D., S. Johnson, J. Robinson y P. Yared (2009) ?Reevaluating the Modernization Hypothesis.? Journal of Monetary Economics, 56:1043-1058.
Acemoglu, D., S. Naidu, P. Restrepo, y J. A Robinson (2014), ?Democracy Does Cause Growth.? NBER Working Paper 20004.

Besley, T. y T. Persson (2010), ?State Capacity, Conflict and Development,? Econometrica 78:1-34.

Ostry, J., A. Berg y C. Tsangarides (2014) ?Redistribution, Inequality, and Growth,? IMF Staff Discussion Note SDN/14/02.

Sachs, J. D., y Warner, A. M. (2001) ?The Curse of Natural Resources.? European Economic Review 45(4?6):827?838.

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Complementarias:

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Aguirre, A. (2016), ?The Risk of Civil Conflicts as a Determinant of Political Institutions.? European Journal of Political Economy 42:36-59.

Acemoglu, D., J. A. Robinson, y R. Torvik (2013), ?Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances?? Review of Economic Studies 80(3): 845-875.

Acemoglu, D. y S. Johnson (2005) ?Unbundling Institutions.? Journal of Political Economy 113(5): 949-95.

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Jones, C. y P. Klenow (2014), Beyond GDP? Welfare across Countries and Time.

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Jones, Chad (2005), ?Growth and Ideas?, en Aghion, P. and Durlauf, S. (eds.) Handbook of Economic Growth, Elsevier: Amsterdam.

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PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE
INSTITUTO DE ECONOMIA / ABRIL 2018