Easy-to-follow guide for students wishing to proceed to analytically more demanding literature

Unified model framework throughout the book

Treatment of highly topical subjects in growth and international economics (e.g. euro crisis, growth with bubbles, religion and economic growth)

Provides a lot of empirical data on growth and international trade

Growth and International Trade: Introduction and Stylized Facts.- PART I. GROWTH.- Modeling the Growth of the World Economy: The Basic Overlapping Generations Model.- Steady State, Factor Income, and Technological Progress.- Economic Growth and Public Debt in the World Economy.- "New" Growth Theory and Knowledge Externalities in Capital Accumulation.- Endogenous Technological Progress and Infinite Economic Growth.- Human Capital, Religion, and Economic Growth.- Economic Growth With Bubbles.- Involuntary Unemployment in an OLG Growth Model with Public Debt and Human Capital.- Robots, Human Capital Investment, Welfare, and Unemployment in a Digital World Economy.- PART II. INTERNATIONAL TRADE. International Parity Conditions in a Two-Country OLG Model Under Free Trade.- Factor Proportion, Inter-Sectoral Trade, and Product Life Cycle.- Product Differentiation, Decreasing Costs, and Intra-sectoral Trade.- Globalization, Capital Accumulation, and Terms of Trade.- Innovation, Growth and Trade in a Two-Country OLG Model.- Real Exchange Rate and Public Debt in a Two-Advanced-Country OLG Model.- Public Debt Reduction in Advanced Countries and Its Impacts on Emerging Countries.- External Balance, Dynamic Efficiency and Welfare Effects of National Climate Policies.- Nationally and Internationally Optimal Climate Policies.- Modeling the Debt Mechanics of the Euro Zone.- Financial Integration and House Price Dynamics in an OLG Model with Intra-EMU and Asian-US Trade Imbalances.- Why Religion Might Persist in a Globalized Market Economy.