Advanced macroeconomics : an easy guide /

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 prac...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Campante, Filipe
Other Authors: Sturzenegger, Federico, 1966-, Velasco, Andrés, 1960-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : LSE Press, c2021
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Online Access:https://press.lse.ac.uk/site/books/m/10.31389/lsepress.ame/
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Growth theory preliminaries
  • 3. The neoclassical growth model
  • 4. An application, the small open economy
  • 5. Endogenous growth models I, escaping diminishing returns
  • 6. Endogenous growth models II, technological change
  • 7. Proximate and fundamental causes of growth
  • 8. Overlapping generations models
  • 9. An application, pension systems and transitions
  • 10. Unified growth theory
  • 11. Consumption
  • 12. Consumption under uncertainty and macro finance
  • 13. Investment
  • 14. Real business cycles
  • 15. (New) Keynesian theories of fluctuations, a primer
  • 16. Unemployment
  • 17. Fiscal policy I, public debt and the effectiveness of fiscal policy
  • 18. Fiscal policy II, the long-run determinants of fiscal policy
  • 19. Monetary policy, an introduction
  • 20. Rules vs discretion
  • 21. Recent debates in monetary policy
  • 22. New developments in monetary and fiscal policy
  • Appendix A. a very brief mathematical appendix
  • Appendix B. Simulating an RBC model
  • Appendix C. Simulating a DSGE model.