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Last updated 31 October 2006. Most recent changes first. Back to main page.

October 2006

Thanasis Stengos has been added to the list of researchers
Andros Kourtellos has been added to the list of researchers

September 2006

STOP PRESS - PWT 6.2 has now been released, with data until 2004 - see the Penn World Table website
Decio Coviello has been added to the list of researchers
Some links have been fixed

July 2006

STOP PRESS - PWT 6.2 may be released soon - keep an eye out on the Penn World Table website
Graziella Bertocchi has been added to the list of researchers
The references on trade and convergence have been updated
There is now a link to Gapminder - well worth a look
Areendam Chanda and Kazuo Mino have been added to the list of researchers
The list of surveys has been updated to include a March 2006 special issue of Finance & Development

June 2006

The lists of books and surveys have been updated
Takumi Naito has been added to the list of researchers
Carl-Johan Dalgaard and Dietrich Vollrath have been added to the researchers page
Some broken links have been fixed

May 2006

The page for events has been updated
A new reference has been added on the Penn World Table - see this if you are using the PWT series on GDP per worker, or the labour force data
There are some long overdue revisions to the reference lists carried out with the help of Yongfu Huang
Several researchers have been added to the list of researchers
A link has been added to Financial Development Resources
More updates will take place over summer 2006

October 2004

See the events page for details of the IFPRI/Cornell Conference on Threshold Effects and Non-Linearities in Growth and Development, and the Call for Papers
Added to the researchers page: Maria-Carmen Guisan, Moshe Hazan, Thomas M. Steger
A link to the Economics of Education in Europe website has been added to the links page

June 2004

Papers by Fiasche and Lavezzi have been added to one of the convergence pages
Look out for new growth books by David Weil, and by Mark Rogers
Added to the researchers page: Serge Coulombe, Davide Fiaschi, Andrea Mario Lavezzi, and Mark Rogers

March 2004

Some useful new links have been added
Many of the broken links for researchers have now been fixed
Two new events have been added to the events page (both with calls for papers that close in March 2004)
The books page has been updated
John Stachurski and Francesco Daveri have been added to the list of researchers

August 2003

Chad Jones has compiled a page of links to draft chapters for the Handbook of Economic Growth (see the surveys page)
Some books on growth have been added to the list
The page of events has been updated
Some long overdue revisions to the reference lists, especially human capital
Marios Zachariadis has been added to the list of researchers

May 2003

Axel Dreher, William Easterly, Jonathan Eaton and Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan have all been added to the list of researchers
The references on scale effects have been updated

November 2002

IMPORTANT - PWT 6.1 now available - see the official PWT site for more details.
There is a new set of references on growth in Africa
Also NEW - a set of references on the New Economy
There is now a set of references on competition and growth
The surveys page has been updated
The references on inequality and growth have been updated...
...as have those on unemployment and growth and ethnic diversity
Several of the other reference pages have been updated - more soon

Thanks to Toshihiko Mukoyama for his suggestions.

July 2002

There is now a set of references on geography and growth
Ragnar Torvik has been added to the list of researchers...
...and so have Blanca Sanchez-Robles and Andreas Irmen

Thanks to Will Masters for his suggestions.

October 2001

A new Manchester conference has been added to the events page
The references on fertility and growth have been updated
Another reference has been added to Malthus to Solow
Jeremy Greenwood and Matthias Doepke have been added to the list of researchers

September 2001

Some recent books on growth, by Rodrigo and by Ros, have been added to the list
There is a new paper on scale effects
Details of a growth conference in Chile have been added
There is a new set of references on unemployment and growth

August 2001

Murat F. Iyigun has been added to the list of researchers
Economic Growth Resources now has a search facility!
The pages have been redesigned using style sheets More details
See the new events page for future conferences and workshops
Several researchers have been added to the list
Many of the reference lists have been updated
Most broken links have been fixed

May 2001

There is a conference on growth in Italy, autumn 2001
Bart van Ark has been added to the researchers page
Some additional human capital references have been added
Chris Papageorgiou has been added to the list of researchers
The page for journals has been updated and revised
The page for working papers has also been updated
There is now a link to the Groningen Growth and Development Centre, which has recently released a new database
Ola Olsson has been added to the list of researchers
There is a new set of references on efficiency wages, unions, wage bargaining and growth

February 2001

Philippe Martin and Tapio Palokangas have been added to the list of researchers
The references on inflation and growth have been updated
The datasets page now includes a link to the Social Change website on long-term economic, social and political change
The networks page has been updated
Louise Keely and John Komlos have been added to the list of researchers
There is a new set of references on evolution and growth
Some of the references have been updated
There is a new set of references on mobility and growth

September 2000

Peter Howitt has been added to the list of researchers
Lawrence J. Lau has also been added to the list
Gianluca Violante's page has also been added
The OECD is running a two-year Growth Project - the website is well worth a look
The references on inflation and growth have been updated
Angel de la Fuente has a new paper on convergence
The references on inequality and growth have been updated
There is a new paper on model uncertainty and growth
Omer Moav has been added to the list of researchers
Fatma and Suut Dogruel have been added to the list of researchers
See the networks page for details of conferences on growth and inequality
The references on human capital and growth have been updated
The link to the Tucker data sets guide has been updated

August 2000

The data sets page has been improved
I've updated the references on model uncertainty
The redesign continues, slowly...
The link to Ross Levine's pages has been updated
Jong-Wha Lee has been added to the list of researchers
Roberto Perotti has been added to the list of researchers
The references on inequality have been updated
The references on human capital and growth have also been updated
There is now a link to the new Barro-Lee (2000) data set on educational attainment
Omar Licandro has been added to the list of researchers
Lutz Arnold has been added to the list of researchers
The references on Malthus to Solow have been updated

April 2000

The references on trade and convergence have been updated

March 2000

There is now a link to the Carl Melchior Minerva Centre for Macro and Growth; see their June 1999 conference programme for some relatively recent (and downloadable) growth papers
Solow's very useful new book has been added to the surveys guide
The redesign of these pages continues (slowly)
Another growth event has been added to the new research networks page
Thorvaldur Gylfason is now included in the list of researchers
I've also added Thorvaldur Gylfason's new book on growth to the list of surveys
Huw Lloyd-Ellis and Alan Taylor have been added to the list of researchers
The references on inequality have been updated
The networks page will now include details of forthcoming events connected to the study of economic growth

January 2000

There is a short set of references on Baumol's unbalanced growth model (further suggestions welcome)
There is a new page for mailing lists and research networks
Guido Tabellini has been added to the list of researchers
Some of the reference pages have been updated
Hope you like the new look. It will gradually be extended to all pages over the next month or so.

Thanks to Claudia Biancotti for her suggestions

December 1999

Some of the lists of references have been extended. More to follow soon...

Thanks to Claudiney M. Pereira for helpful suggestions on Appropriate technology references

August 1999

There is a new set of references on transitional dynamics in endogenous growth models
The references on stock markets and growth have been updated
I've added a set of references on finance and growth
There is now a link to the official PWT site. Watch out for the arrival of PWT 5.7
Most of the broken links on the researchers page have been fixed

Thanks to Lutz Arnold and Guglielmo Volpe for extremely useful contributions.

July 1999

It was too hot to worry about this...

June 1999

There is now a link to the web page of Andrew Bernard
Some of the references have been slightly modified
There is a new set of references on energy and growth
There is a new set of references on model uncertainty and growth regressions

May 1999

The link to Sergio Rebelo's web page now allows access to his research papers

April 1999

The references on From Malthus to Solow have been improved
Why not check out the new data sets at Harvard's CID?
Note that a problem with the Barro-Lee documentation on the NBER's web server has now been fixed
A broken link to NBER online data has also been fixed

March 1999

Thanks to Christos Koulovatianos for his references on General Purpose Technologies
There are now references on From Malthus to Solow
There is an important new reference on trade policy and growth by Rodrik and Rodriguez
David Weil now has a research page
There is a new reference on human capital
There is a faculty page for Sergio Rebelo
I've added a new reference on convergence
There is now a link to Michael Kremer's research page

February 1999

There is now a link to the International Center for Economic Growth
Note that the World Bank's growth pages have been updated
Anton Muscatelli has been added to the list of researchers
The URL for Dan Ben-David has been updated
There is a new reference on fiscal policy
Peter Howitt has a new paper on scale effects
There is a new reference on income levels
There is a new survey on inequality and growth
Ross Levine now has a research page
There is a new reference on inequality and growth

January 1999

Francesco Caselli has been added to the list of growth researchers

December 1998

There is a new set of references, on appropriate technology
There is a new paper on scale effects by Jones
Several new papers on human capital are now available
There is a new survey of inflation and growth
There are some more researchers on the list
A few of the references have been updated

November 1998

There are some more researchers on the list
The URLs for World Bank journals have been updated
A few of the references have been updated

October 1998

A new book examines openness and growth
There is a new set of references on embodied technical change
Some of the other references have been updated
There is an important new reference on human capital, by Krueger and Lindahl
Various broken links have been fixed

September 1998

There is a new survey on income differences
Some of the references have been updated
I've added a link to the Yale Economic Growth Center
Some more researchers have been added to the list

Thanks to Chol-Won Li and Francesco Pigliaru for their suggestions.

August 1998

There is a new set of references, on panel data studies of growth
The links and papers pages have been updated
The references on the augmented Solow model have been reorganised
Some distinguished names have been added to the web pages list
There is an important new survey by Robert Topel, with a particular focus on labour markets and human capital in growth
Some of the references have been updated

July 1998

There is a new set of references on growth and the environment

Thanks to Poul Schou for his suggestions.

June 1998

Updating postponed during the World Cup...

May 1998

There is a new set of references on fiscal policy
The references on scale effects have been updated
There is a new set of references on ethnic diversity
The references on income levels have been updated
Note that the World Bank growth site has been updated
Dan-Ben David has been added to the list of researchers

Thanks to Richard Kneller for his suggestions.

April 1998

I've added another survey to the list
There is a new set of references, on scale effects

March 1998

There is a new survey mentioned
The link to the Penn World Table at Toronto has been fixed
There are some new references
Steve Dowrick has been added to the list of researchers

February 1998

Some of the key references have been updated
Another researcher, Pietro Peretto, has been added to the list
Also, note that the World Bank's growth site has been updated

January 1998

There are some new references listed in the surveys section
The Sachs and Warner data set has been updated
There are some more references on income levels
Another researcher, Paul Evans, has been added to the list

Thanks to Eom Dong-Wook for his suggestions.