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Burda & Wyplosz: Macroeconomics 4e

Part VI (Chapters 15-18)

Chapter 15

www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/gfs/manual/index.htm
The Government Finance Statistics Manual. The Statistics Department of the IMF is revising the 1986 edition of A Manual on Government Finance Statistics (GFS). The new GFS Manual will describe an integrated statistical system that is harmonized, to the extent possible, with the System of National Accounts, 1993.

www.bundesbank.de/download/volkswirtschaft/mba/1997/199703mba_art01_pubsecdb.pdf
Trends in public sector debt in Germany since unification

www.cesifo-group.de/portal/page?_pageid=36,164276&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL&item_link=lect-tabellini1999.htm
Video lecture "Fiscal policy in representative democracies" by Guido Tabellini in the CES/Ifo lecture series, Nov 1999 in Munich.

Chapter 16

nobelprize.org/economics/laureates/1976/press.html
That the Nobel Prize people thought the recognition of policy lags is significant can be seen from their press release regarding the award of a Nobel Prize to Milton Friedman.

www.ideachannel.com/Friedman.htm
Here is a site that will give you all the links to Milton Friedman you will need for quite a while.

Chapter 17

www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/speeches/2001/speech133.pdf
'The Beveridge Curve, Unemployment and Wages in the OECD from the 1960s to the 1990s' (pdf file) by Stephen Nickell, Luca Nunziata, Wolfgang Ochel and Glenda Quintini.

www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/speeches/2002/speech184.pdf
Another speech by Stephen Nickell: Picture of European Unemployment: Success and Failure

www.eu-employment-observatory.net/en/documents/doc02_01.aspx?year=2006
The European employment observatory provides much more about employment policies in Europe.

Chapter 18

econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/
EXTPROGRAMS/EXTMACROECO/0,,contentMDK:20320289~menuPK:546619~pagePK:
64168182~piPK:64168060~theSitePK:477872,00.html#eg
World Bank's Economic Growth Research Page

econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/
0,,contentMDK:20699067~pagePK:64214825~piPK:
64214943~theSitePK:469382,00.html
Cross-Country Panel data: Barro-Lee Data Set for a Panel of 138 Countries is available from the NBER website. There are instructions explaining how do download and unzip the data. This is a case when you really need to read the readme.txt file first.