Required Readings

Romer, D. Advanced Macroeconomics. 2001, chap. 1. ISBN: 0072318554.

Solow, R. M. "A Contribution to the Theory of Economic Growth." Quarterly Journal of Economics 70 (1956): 65-94.

Recommended Readings
Barro, R. J., and X. Sala-i-Martin. Economic Growth. 1995, chap. 1 and 12.

Required Readings
Romer, D. Advanced Macroeconomics. 2001, chap. 2. ISBN: 0072318554.

Mankiw, N. G., D. Romer, and D. Weil. "A Contribution to the Empirics of Economic Growth." Quarterly Journal of Economics 107 (1992): 401-437.

Recommended Readings

Barro, R. J., and X. Sala-i-Martin. Economic Growth. 1995, chap. 2 and 3.

Blanchard, O., and S. Fischer. Lectures on Macroeconomics. 1989, chap. 3.

Required Readings

Romer, D. Advanced Macroeconomics. 2001, chap. 2. ISBN: 0072318554.

Barro, R. J. "Are Government Bonds Net Wealth?" Journal of Political Economy 82 (1974): 1095-1117.

Diamond, P. "National Debt in a Neoclassical Growth Model." American Economic Review 55 (1965): 1126-1150.

Recommended Readings

Blanchard, O. "Debt, Deficits and Finite Horizons." Journal of Political Economy 93 (1985): 223-247.

Required Readings

Romer, D. Advanced Macroeconomics. 2001, chap. 7 and 8. ISBN: 0072318554.

Barro, R. J., "On the Determination of the Public Debt." Journal of Political Economy 87 (1979): 940-71.

Recommended Readings

Barro, R. "Ramsey Meets Laibson in the Neoclassical Growth Model." Quarterly Journal of Economics 114 (1999): 1125-1152.

Laibson, D. "Golden Eggs and Hyperbolic Discounting." Quarterly Journal of Economics 112 (1997): 443-478.

Lucas, R. E, Jr. "Asset Prices in an Exchange Economy." Econometrica 46 (1978): 1429-1445.