EC213 Macroeconomics

National University of Ireland, Galway

Semester II 1999/2000

Group V's Home Page Web project topic: International Trade and Inequality

Meeting at 12pm Friday Sem Room B St. Anthony's in Weeks 7, 9, 11 ,13

View the list of names in Group V

Links for all project topics

• Econ Lit Database of economics books, journal articles and working papers. (Accessible from computers on NUI, Galway campus only.)
• JSTOR Archive of full text of 13 top economics journals, no issue more recent than about five years ago. (Accessible from computers on NUI, Galway campus only.)
• Science Direct Elsevier Publisher's site; many full text articles in top economics journals. (Accessible from computers on NUI, Galway campus only.) Use 'group wide login' from first page and then go to journals.
• Resources for Economists on the Net see especially the full Table of Contents.
• WebEc links to on-line economics resources.
• WoPEc Electronic Papers in Economics.
• Free on-line OECD documents
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Economics Department working papers.
• International Monetary Fund (IMF) working papers.
• International Monetary Fund (IMF) Staff Papers.
• World Bank research journals
• Bank for International Settlements (BIS) The central bank for central banks, in Basle, Switzerland, publications (see especially their working papers).
• Board of Governors of the US Federal Reserve working papers.
• European Commission Directorate for Economic and Monetary Affairs, economic papers.
• European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt, working papers.
• Institute for International Economics, Washington DC, working papers.
• World Trade Organisation (WTO)
• CEP Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics
• Institute for Economic Affairs Free market 'think-tank' in London.

Links specifically for "International Trade and Inequality"

• Articles available on JSTOR

  The following can be found by searching JSTOR:
  (Access from computers on NUI, Galway campus only.)
  In each case, the link below brings you to the front page of that site, not to the article itself.

  • Why Doesn't Capital Flow from Rich to Poor Countries? (in The New Growth Theory) Robert E. Lucas, Jr. The American Economic Review, Vol. 80, No. 2, Papers and Proceedings of the Hundred and Second Annual Meeting of theAmerican Economic Association. (May, 1990), pp. 92-96.
  • Income Inequality and Trade: How to Think, What to Conclude (in Symposia: Income Inequality and Trade) J. David Richardson The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 9, No. 3. (Summer, 1995), pp. 33-55.

• Other links for this topic

  The following links should be accessible from any web connection. Please let me know of any broken links etc.

  • Trends in Market Openess by Jonathan Coppel and Martin Durand, OECD Department of Economics working paper, August 1999.
  • Economic Growth Resources maintained by Jonathan Temple at Nuffield College, Oxford.
  • The Penn World Tables is a set of national income data for many countries and has been used extensively in economic research world-wide. This site is part of the Centre for International Comparisions at the University of Pennsylvania.
  • The Economic Growth Project of the World Bank Research Group is a site designed to disseminate article and datasets on this topic.
  • Nouriel Roubini at New York University now on leave, working for the US government. This site has a vast collection of links related to current macroeconomic policy debates.
  • The New Economy Debate part of Nouriel Roubini's site, at New York University.
  • The European Unions Trade Policies and their Economic Effects by Peter Hoeller, Nathalie Girouard and Alessandra Colecchia. OECD Department of Economics Working Paper, April 1998.
  • The Global Trading System and the Developing Countries in 2000 by C. Fred Bergsten, Institute for International Economics working paper, May 1999.
  • Globalization and the Future of Social Protection Tanzi, Vito; Fiscal Affairs Department, IMF, working paper, 2000.
  • Growth, Trade, and Deindustrialization By Robert Rowthorn and Ramana Ramaswamy, IMF Staff Papers, Volume 46, No. 1, March 1999.
  • Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions: Their Role in Industrial Globalisation Nam-Hoon Kang and Sara Johansson, OECD Science, Technology and Innovation Working Paper, 2000.
  • OECD Documents on Employment, Labour and Social Policy
  • Paul Romer at Stanford University one of the pioneers of endogenous growth theory.
  • Paul Krugman at MIT one of the biggest names in modern economics. This site has many top-quality but accessible articles, written for a general, rather than specialist academic audience.

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