Course Code and name

EKO662 Economic Growth

Course Type

Elective

Course Credit

 

3

ECTS Credit

 

 

Lecturer

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sevinç Mıhçı

Pre-requisite(s)

None

Course Length

 

One semester

Course Content

Growth models with exogenous saving rates (Solow-Swan Model), growth models with consumer optimization (  The Ramsey model),  one-sector models of endogenous growth,  technological change: models with expanding variety of product, technological change: models with improvements in the quality of products.

Course Objective and Fulfillments to be obtained by Students

 

To review the recent theories of economic growth in the intermediate level, especially by the help of tools of dynamic optimization and differential equations, while reexamining the neoclassical growth theories. 

References

 

R.J. Baro,  X. Sala-i Martin (1995), Economic Growth, McGraw-Hill

Teaching Method

Lecturing

Assessment Method

Exams and presentations

Instruction Language

Turkish