中国经济研究中心

研究生经济发展课程提纲
2005春季
 
 
本课程将以通过研读当前国际发展经济学界研究的最新成果来了解发展经济学的前沿动向，以及探讨利用我国的改革和发展经验对发展经济学做出贡献的机会。课程要求为分组阅读讨论指定的文章、提交学习心得、参加课堂讨论，每人并于秋季学期开学时提交一份学期论文。学期论文的选题报告在4月30日前提交。
 
同学自愿组成学习小组，学期成绩由两部分组成，分组的学习心得占30%，个人的论文质量占70%。
 
2月25日的课将第一单元的阅读材料发下，3月4日上第一次课。
 
课程安排：
 
1. The Stylized Facts and Basic Model of Growth:
 
Rodrik, Dani (1998). “Where Did all the Growth Go? External Shocks, Social Conflict and Growth Collapses,” National Bureau Of Economic Research. Working Paper Series No. 6350.
http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/rodrik/conftext.pdf
 
Easterly, William (2001), "The Lost Decades: Developing Countries'' Stagnation in Spite of Policy Reform 1980-98," Journal of Economic Growth.
http://www.cgdev.org/fellows/easterly_lostdecades.pdf
 
Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James Robinson, Yunyong Thaicharoen, (2002), “Institutional Causes, Macroeconomic Symptoms: Volatility, Crises and Growth”, NBER Working Paper 9124. http://papers.nber.org/papers/w9124.pdf
 
 
2. Geography, Institution, and Growth:
 
Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson (2001). “The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigaton.” American Economic Review, 91(5), 1369-1401.
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w7771.pdf
 
Stanley L Engerman and Kenneth L. Sokoloff (2002). “Factor Endowments, Inequality, and Paths of Development Among New World Economics”, NBER Working Paper 9259.
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w9259.pdf
 
Glaeser, Edward L., La Porta, Rafael Lopez-de-Silanes Florencio, and Andrew Shleifer (2004),“Do Institutions Cause Growth?” NBER Working Paper, No. w10568.
 
Rodrick Dani (2003), “Institutions Rule: The Primacy of Institutions over Geography and Integration in Economic Development”,Mimeo.
http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~.drodrik.academic.ksg/institutionsrule,%205.0.pdf
 
Rodrick Dani and Sharun Mukand (2002). “In Search of the Holy Grail: Policy Convergence, Experimentation, and Economic Performance”, revised July 2002.
http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~.drodrik.academic.ksg/polconv.pdf
 
Easterly, William and Ross Levine (2003), “Tropics, germs, and crops: the role of endowments in economic development” Journal of Monetary Economics, 50:1, January 2003.
http://www.nyu.edu/fas/institute/dri/Easterly/File/_2_tgc.pdf
 
3. Institution, Development Policy, and Comparative Economics:
              
Rodrick Dani (2003), “Growth Strategies”, a paper for the Handbook of Economic Growth, September 2003.  http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~.drodrik.academic.ksg/growthstrat10.pdf
 
Rodrick Dani and Ricardo Hausmann(2003), “Economic Development as Self-Discovery”, revised April 2003. http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~.drodrik.academic.ksg/selfdisc.pdf
 
Shleifer Andrei, S. Djankov, E. Glaeser, R. La Porta, and F. Lopez-de-Silanes (2003). "The New Comparative Economics" (with), Journal of Comparative Economics, December, 2003.
http://post.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/shleifer/papers/nce_07_07_03WORD.pdf
 
Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson(2003).”Unbundling Institutions”, NBER Working Paper 9934.http://papers.nber.org/papers/w9934.pdf
                                                            
La Porta, R., Lopez-de-Silanes, F., Shleifer, A., Vishny, R.W., 1999. The quality of government.  Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 15, 222-279.
http://post.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/shleifer/papers/qualgov.pdf
 
4. Appropriate Technology:
 
Daron Acemoglu, Philippe Aghion, Fabrizio Zilibotti(2002), “Distance to Frontier, Selection, and Economic Growth”, NBER Working Paper 9066.
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w9066.pdf
 
Susanto Basu and David N. Weil (1998), “Appropriate Technology and Growth”, Quarterly Journal of Economics (November 1998).
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w5865.pdf
 
Francesco Caselli (2003). “The World Technology Frontier”, Mimeo.
http://post.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/caselli/papers/wtf1.pdf
 
Acemoglu, Daron (2001). “Directed Technical Change,” NBER working paper no. 8287.
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W8287
 
Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum. “Engines of Growth: Domestic and Foreign Sources of
Innovation.” NBER working paper #5207, 1995.
 
林毅夫、潘士远 “发展战略、知识吸收能力和经济收敛”（草稿）。
 
 
5. Government and Regulation Policy:
 
Shleifer Andrei, S. Djankov, R. La Porta, and F. Lopez-de-Silanes(2002). “The Regulation of Entry", Quarterly Journal of Economics, February, 2002.
http://post.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/shleifer/papers/regulation_June_2001.pdf
 
Shleifer Andrei, E. Glaeser and S. Johnson(2001). "Coase v. the Coasians", Quarterly Journal of Economics, February, 2001.
http://post.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/shleifer/papers/qjecoasepaper.pdf
 
Shleifer Andrei, R. La Porta, and F. Lopez-de-Silanes(2003). "What Works in Securities Laws?" July, 2003.
http://post.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/shleifer/papers/securities_fixed.pdf
 
Katharina Pistor and Chenggang Xu(2002). “Incomplete of Law: A Conceptual and Analytical Framework - Its Application to Financial Market Regulation,” Columbia Law School Working Paper in Law and Economics.
http://www.law.columbia.edu/center_program/law_economics/wp_listing_1/wp_author?exclusive=filemgr.download&file_id=6987&rtcontentdisposition=filename%3Dwp204.pdf
 
6. Income Distribution, Inequality and Underdevelopment:
                   
Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo(2003). “Inequality and Growth: What Can the Data Say?” , Mimeo.
http://econ-www.mit.edu/faculty/download_pdf.php?id=445
 
Daron Acemoglu(2002).“Cross-Country Inequality Trends”, NBER Working Paper No. w8832.
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w8832.pdf
 
Mookherjee, D. and D. Ray (2002), "Persistent Inequality," mimeo.
http://www.econ.nyu.edu/user/debraj/Papers/PersIneq.pdf
M. Ghatak and J. Jiang, ``A Simple Model of Inequality, Occupational Choice and Development," JDE 2002.
http://econ.lse.ac.uk/staff/mghatak/jde4.pdf
 
A. Alesina and D. Rodrik, ``Distributive Politics and Economic Growth,’’ QJE 108(1994), 465-490.
http://econ.bu.edu/dilipm/25-alesinarodrik.pdf
 
林毅夫、刘培林，“经济发展战略与公平、效率的关系”《中国经济研究中心讨论稿》No.C2002007。
 
7. Openness, Trade, and Development:
 
Anne O. Krueger (1997). “Trade Policy and Economic Development: How We Learn”, American Economic Review, Vol. 87, no. 1 (March 1997): 1-22.
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w5896.pdf
 
Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James Robinson (2002). “The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change and Economic Growth", NBER Working Paper No. w9378.
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w9378.pdf
 
D. Rodrik and Francisco Rodríguez (2001). “Trade Policy and Economic Growth: A Skeptic''s Guide to the Cross-National Evidence”, Macroeconomics Annual 2000, eds. Ben Bernanke and Kenneth S. Rogoff, MIT Press for NBER, Cambridge, MA, 2001.
http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~.drodrik.academic.ksg/skepti1299.pdf
 
David Dollar, and Aart Kraay (2003).“Institutions, Trade, and Growth: Revisiting the Evidence”, Worldbank Working Paper.
http://econ.worldbank.org/files/24986_wps3004.pdf
 
8. Finance and Growth:
 
Ross Levine(2003). “Finance and Growth”, Mimeo.
http://legacy.csom.umn.edu/WWWPages/FACULTY/RLevine/levine_handbook.pdf
 
A. Shleifer, R. La Porta, F. Lopez-de-Silanes, and R. Vishny(1998). "Law and Finance", Journal of Political Economy, December 1998.
http://post.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/shleifer/papers/lawandfinance.pdf
 
Ross Levine and Thorsten Beck(2003). "Legal Institutions and Financial Development"
Forthcoming: Handbook of New Institutional Economics
http://legacy.csom.umn.edu/WWWPages/FACULTY/RLevine/legalhandbook.pdf
 
Luigi Zingales and Raghuram G. Rajan(1998). “Financial Dependence and Growth”, American Economic Review, June 1998.
http://gsbwww.uchicago.edu/fac/luigi.zingales/research/PSpapers/findepgrow.pdf
 
Luigi Zingales and Raghuram G. Rajan(2002). “The Great Reversals: The Politics of Financial Development in the 20th Century”, July 2002, Journal of Financial Economics
http://gsbwww.uchicago.edu/fac/luigi.zingales/research/PSpapers/JFE%20reversal.pdf
 
Luigi Zingales and Raghuram G. Rajan(2001). “Financial Systems, Industrial Structure and Growth”, Oxford Review of Economics Policy, 2001.
http://gsbwww.uchicago.edu/fac/luigi.zingales/research/PSpapers/finsystems2001.pdf
 
R. Fisman(2004). “Financial Development and Intersectoral Allocation: A New Approach”, forthcoming, Journal of Finance.
http://www-1.gsb.columbia.edu/faculty/rfisman/financial_development.pdf
 
Peter L. Rousseau (2002). ”Historical Perspectives on Financial Development and Economic Growth”, NBER Working Paper No. w9333.
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w9333.pdf
 
林毅夫，“试论经济发展中的最优金融结构”（草稿）。
 
对金融课题感兴趣的同学可以参考世界银行的资料库：
A Library for Finance and Growth in Worldbank,
http://econ.worldbank.org/programs/finance/library/
 
 
9. Political and Legal Development:
 
Acemoglu, Daron and James Robinson (2002). “Political Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy”. http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~jamesar/
 
Karla Hoff, Joseph E. Stiglitz(2002). “After the Big Bang? Obstacles to the Emergence of the Rule of Law in Post-Communist Societies”, NBER Working Paper No. w9282.
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w9282.pdf
 
Gerard Roland and Thierry Verdier (2003). “Law Enforcement and Transition”, European Economic Review, Vol. 47, No. 4, August 2003.
http://emlab.berkeley.edu/users/groland/pubs/lawenforce.pdf
 
Pistor, Katharina, Yoram Keinan, Jan Kleinheisterkamp & Mark D. West (2003).”The Evolution of Corporate Law: A Cross-Country Comparison”, Journal of International Economic Law, Vol. 23, Issue 4, pp. 791-871.
http://www.law.columbia.edu/center_program/law_economics/wp_listing_1/wp_listing/231_240?exclusive=filemgr.download&file_id=8227&rtcontentdisposition=filename%3DWP232.pdf