Advanced Macroeconomics

Advanced Macroeconomics
Author: Filipe R. Campante
Publisher: LSE Press
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2021-10-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1909890707

Macroeconomic policy is one of the most important policy domains, and the tools of macroeconomics are among the most valuable for policy makers. Yet there has been, up to now, a wide gulf between the level at which macroeconomics is taught at the undergraduate level and the level at which it is practiced. At the same time, doctoral-level textbooks are usually not targeted at a policy audience, making advanced macroeconomics less accessible to current and aspiring practitioners. This book, born out of the Masters course the authors taught for many years at the Harvard Kennedy School, fills this gap. It introduces the tools of dynamic optimization in the context of economic growth, and then applies them to a wide range of policy questions – ranging from pensions, consumption, investment and finance, to the most recent developments in fiscal and monetary policy. It does so with the requisite rigor, but also with a light touch, and an unyielding focus on their application to policy-making, as befits the authors’ own practical experience. Advanced Macroeconomics: An Easy Guide is bound to become a great resource for graduate and advanced undergraduate students, and practitioners alike.

Money, Interest and Capital

Money, Interest and Capital
Author: Colin Rogers
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1989-05-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521359566

The novel feature of this study is the application of Keynes' principle of effective demand to demonstrate the existence of a long-run unemployment equilibrium without the assumption of rigid wages.

Macroeconomic Analysis

Macroeconomic Analysis
Author: Dirk Niepelt
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2019-12-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0262043475

A concise but rigorous and thorough introduction to modern macroeconomic theory. This book offers an introduction to modern macroeconomic theory. It is concise but rigorous and broad, covering all major areas in mainstream macroeconomics today and showing how macroeconomic models build on and relate to each other. The self-contained text begins with models of individual decision makers, proceeds to models of general equilibrium without and with friction, and, finally, presents positive and normative theories of economic policy. After a review of the microeconomic foundations of macroeconomics, the book analyzes the household optimization problem, the representative household model, and the overlapping generations model. It examines risk and the implications for household choices and macroeconomic outcomes; equilibrium asset returns, prices, and bubbles; labor supply, growth, and business cycles; and open economy issues. It introduces frictions and analyzes their consequences in the labor market, financial markets, and for investment; studies money as a unit of account, store of value, and medium of exchange; and analyzes price setting in general equilibrium. Turning to government and economic policy, the book covers taxation, debt, social security, and monetary policy; optimal fiscal and monetary policies; and sequential policy choice, with applications in capital income taxation, sovereign debt and default, politically motivated redistribution, and monetary policy biases. Macroeconomic Analysis can be used by first-year graduate students in economics and students in master's programs, and as a supplemental text for advanced courses.

Monetary Economics

Monetary Economics
Author: W. Godley
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 577
Release: 2016-04-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1137085991

This book challenges the mainstream paradigm, based on the inter-temporal optimisation of welfare by individual agents. It introduces a methodology for studying how institutions create flows of income, expenditure and production together with stocks of assets and liabilities, thereby determining how whole economies evolve through time.

Information Choice in Macroeconomics and Finance

Information Choice in Macroeconomics and Finance
Author: Laura L. Veldkamp
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2011-08-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 140084049X

An authoritative graduate textbook on information choice, an exciting frontier of research in economics and finance Most theories in economics and finance predict what people will do, given what they know about the world around them. But what do people know about their environments? The study of information choice seeks to answer this question, explaining why economic players know what they know—and how the information they have affects collective outcomes. Instead of assuming what people do or don't know, information choice asks what people would choose to know. Then it predicts what, given that information, they would choose to do. In this textbook, Laura Veldkamp introduces graduate students in economics and finance to this important new research. The book illustrates how information choice is used to answer questions in monetary economics, portfolio choice theory, business cycle theory, international finance, asset pricing, and other areas. It shows how to build and test applied theory models with information frictions. And it covers recent work on topics such as rational inattention, information markets, and strategic games with heterogeneous information. Illustrates how information choice is used to answer questions in monetary economics, portfolio choice theory, business cycle theory, international finance, asset pricing, and other areas Teaches how to build and test applied theory models with information frictions Covers recent research on topics such as rational inattention, information markets, and strategic games with heterogeneous information

Monetary Economics

Monetary Economics
Author: W. Godley
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 574
Release: 2006-12-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0230626548

This book challenges the mainstream paradigm, based on the inter-temporal optimisation of welfare by individual agents. It introduces a methodology for studying how it is institutions which create flows of income, expenditure and production together with stocks of assets and liabilities, thereby determining how whole economies evolve through time.

Modern Money Theory

Modern Money Theory
Author: L. Randall Wray
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2015-09-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1137539925

This second edition explores how money 'works' in the modern economy and synthesises the key principles of Modern Money Theory, exploring macro accounting, currency regimes and exchange rates in both the USA and developing nations.

A Study in Monetary Macroeconomics

A Study in Monetary Macroeconomics
Author: Stefan Homburg
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2017
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0198807538

The financial crisis of 2007 and the following recession present a major challenge to macroeconomic theory. This text refines and improves mainstream approaches to contribute to a better understanding of the monetary and fiscal policies that have been complicated by low-interest rates and super-expansive monetary policies.

International Macroeconomics

International Macroeconomics
Author: Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2022-09-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0691170649

An essential introduction to one of the most timely and important subjects in economics International Macroeconomics presents a rigorous and theoretically elegant treatment of real-world international macroeconomic problems, incorporating the latest economic research while maintaining a microfounded, optimizing, and dynamic general equilibrium approach. This one-of-a-kind textbook introduces a basic model and applies it to fundamental questions in international economics, including the determinants of the current account in small and large economies, processes of adjustment to shocks, the determinants of the real exchange rate, the role of fixed and flexible exchange rates in models with nominal rigidities, and interactions between monetary and fiscal policy. The book confronts theoretical predictions using actual data, highlighting both the power and limits of given theories and encouraging critical thinking. Provides a rigorous and elegant treatment of fundamental questions in international macroeconomicsBrings undergraduate and master’s instruction in line with modern economic researchFollows a microfounded, optimizing, and dynamic general equilibrium approachAddresses fundamental questions in international economics, such as the role of capital controls in the presence of financial frictions and balance-of-payments crisesUses real-world data to test the predictions of theoretical modelsFeatures a wealth of exercises at the end of each chapter that challenge students to hone their theoretical skills and scrutinize the empirical relevance of modelsAccompanied by a website with lecture slides for every chapter

Macroeconomics

Macroeconomics
Author: Alex M. Thomas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2021-09-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1108486940

Provides a lucid and novel introduction to macroeconomic issues and introduces an alternative approach of understanding macroeconomics, which is inspired by the works of Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, and Piero Sraffa. It also presents the reader with a critical account of mainstream marginalist macroeconomics.