Advanced macroeconomics : a primer /

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Author / Creator:Minford, Patrick.
Imprint:Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA, USA : E. Elgar, c2002.
Description:xii, 548 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4861746
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Other authors / contributors:Peel, D.
ISBN:1840640901
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 491-526) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. I. Models of the Economy
  • 1. Macroeconomics: a succinct introduction
  • 2. Solving Rational Expectations Models
  • 3. Partial Information and Signal Extraction
  • Pt. II. Evaluating Government Policy
  • 4. Stabilization Policy - Can we?
  • 5. Stabilization Policy - Should we?
  • 6. Practical issues of effective stabilization
  • 7. Fiscal Policy and the government budget constraint
  • 8. The political economy of democracy
  • 9. Unemployment, productivity and growth
  • Pt. III. Extending and Deepening the Models - the Open Economy and Micro-foundations
  • 10. The Macroeconomics of an Open Economy
  • 11. Representative agent models in cashless economies
  • 12. Money in representative agent models
  • 13. Open economy representative agent models
  • Pt. IV. Confronting Models with Facts
  • 14. Testing the Rational Expectations Hypothesis
  • 15. Interpreting the Evidence: The Problem of Observational Equivalence
  • 16. Direct Tests of Rational Expectations
  • 17. Where are we going? Time-series annex: an introduction to linear and non-linear time series.