纽约大学-经济学

研究计划：经济增长

课题：探讨经济增长的主要原因，并将最相关的增长模型应用于实际国家数据。

摘要：

为什么有些国家富裕，而另一些国家贫穷？哪些因素最为重要？如果我们希望让一个经济体迈向更高的生活水平，我们应该做什么？经济体可以永远持续增长吗？是否存在会扼杀增长的政策？增长是否有极限？增长会加剧不平等吗？

如果你曾问过自己这些问题，你并不孤单。多年来，学者和政策制定者一直在尝试解答这些问题，在此过程中，他们创造了一套知识体系。我们将探讨学者和政策制定者当前的认识，他们的共识和分歧。为了理解学者和政策制定者对增长的理解，我们需要了解经济的运作方式。这将要求我们学习一些指标和经济模型，并检查这些模型在现实世界中的应用效果。它们真的有效吗？数据告诉了我们什么？为了全面了解这些问题的运作方式，你将进行一个实证练习，使用实际的、真实世界的数据。

Economic Growth Research Schedule

Subject: Examination of the main causes of economic growth and application of the most relevant growth models to actual country data.

Abstract:

Why are some countries rich while others are poor? Which factors are most relevant? What should we do if we wish to jump-start an economy into a higher standard of living? Can economies keep growing forever? Are there policies that can kill growth? Are there limits to growth? Does growth increase inequality?

If you have ever asked yourself any of these questions, you are not alone. Scholars and policymakers have tried to answer them for many years and, in doing so, they have created a body of knowledge. We will go over what scholars and policy makers currently know, what they agree with and what they disagree on. To understand what scholars and policymakers know about growth, we will have to learn how the economy works. This will require us to learn some metrics and some economic models and check how these have been applied in the actual world. Do they work? What does the data tell us? To know how it all functions, you will conduct an empirical exercise in which you will use actual, real-world data.