Advanced Macroeconomics, 4th Edition
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ABOUT THIS BOOK David Romer's Advanced Macroeconomics, 4e, continues its tradition as the standard text and the starting point for graduate macroeconomic courses and helps lay the groundwork for students to begin doing research in macroeconomics and monetary economics. Formal models are used to present and analyze key ideas and issues. The theoretical analysis is supplemented by examples of relevant empirical work, illustrating the ways that theories can be applied and tested. This well-respected and well-known text is unique in the marketplace. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Chapter 1 THE SOLOW GROWTH MODEL 1.1 Some Basic Facts about Economic Growth 1.2 Assumptions 1.3 The Dynamics of the Model 1.4 The Impact of a Change in the Saving Rate 1.5 Quantitative Implication 1.6 The Solow Model and the Central Questions of Growth Theory 1.7 Empirical Applications 1.8 The Environment and Economic Growth Chapter 2 INFINITE-HORIZON AND OVERLAPPING-GENERATIONS MODELS Part A THE RAMSEY-CASS-KOOPMANS MODEL 2.1 Assumptions 2.2 The Behavior of Households and Firms 2.3 The Dynamics of the Economy 2.4 Welfare 2.5 The Balanced Growth Path 2.6 The Effects of a Fall in the Discount Rate 2.7 The Effects of Government Purchases Part B THE DIAMOND MODEL 2.8 Assumptions 2.9 Household Behavior 2.10 The Dynamics of the Economy 2.11 The Possibility of Dynamic Inefficiency 2.12 Government in the Diamond Model Chapter 3 ENDOGENOUS GROWTH 3.1 Framework and Assumptions 3.2 The Model without Capital 3.3 The General Case 3.4 The Nature of Knowledge and the Determinants of the Allocation of Resources to R&D 3.5 The Romer Model 3.6 Empirical Application: Time-Series Tests of Endogenous Growth Models 3.7 Empirical Application: Population Growth and Technological Change since 1 Million B.C. 3.8 Models of Knowledge Accumulation and the Central Questions of Growth Theory Chapter 4 CROSS-COUNTRY INCOME DIFFERENCES 4.1 Extending the Solow Model to Include Human Capital 4.2 Empirical Application: Accounting for Cross-Country Income Differences 4.3 Social Infrastructure 4.4 Empirical Application: Social Infrastructure and Cross-Country Income Differences 4.5 Beyond Social Infrastructure 4.6 Differences in Growth Rates Chapter 5 REAL-BUSINESS-CYCLE-THEORY 5.1 Introduction: Some Facts about Economic Fluctuations 5.2 An Overview of Business-Cycle Research 5.3 A Baseline Real-Business-Cycle Model 5.4 Household Behavior 5.5 A Special Case of the Model 5.6 Solving the Model in the General Case 5.7 Implications 5.8 Empirical Application: Calibrating a Real-Business-Cycle Model 5.9 Empirical Application: Money and Output 5.10 Assessing the Baseline Real-Business-Cycle Model Chapter 6 NOMINAL RIGIDITY Part A EXOGENOUS NOMINAL RIGIDITY 6.1 A Baseline Case: Fixed Prices 6.2 Price Rigidity, Wage Rigidity, and Departures from Perfect Competition in the Goods and Labor Markets 6.3 Empirical Application: The Cyclical Behavior of the Real Wage 6.4 Toward a Usable Model with Exogenous Nominal Rigidity Part B MICROECONOMIC FOUNDATIONS OF INCOMPLETE NOMINAL ADJUSTMENT 6.5 A Model of Imperfect Competition and Price-Setting 6.6 Are Small Frictions Enough? 6.7 Real Rigidity 6.8 Coordination-Failure Models and Real Non-Walrasian Theories 6.9 The Lucas Imperfect-Information Model 6.10 Empirical Application: International Evidence on the Output-Inflation Tradeoff Chapter 7 DYNAMIC STOCHASTIC GENERAL-EQUILIBRIUM MODELS OF FLUCTUATIONS 7.1 Building Blocks of Dynamic New Keynesian Models 7.2 Predetermined Prices: The Fischer Model 7.3 Fixed Prices: The Taylor Model 7.4 The Calvo Model and the New Keynesian Phillips Curve 7.5 State-Dependent Pricing 7.6 Empirical Applications 7.7 Models of Staggered Price Adjustment with Inflation Inertia 7.8 The Canonical New Keynesian Model 7.9 Other Elements of Modern New Keynesian DSGE Models of Fluctuations Chapter 8 CONSUMPTION 8.1 Consumption under Certainty: The Permanent-Income Hypothesis 8.2 Consumption under Uncertainty: The Random-Walk Hypothesis 8.3 Empirical Application: Two Tests of the Random-Walk Hypothesis 8.4 The Interest Rate and Saving 8.5 Consumption and Risky Assets 8.6 Beyond the Permanent-Income Hypothesis Chapter 9 INVESTMENT 9.1 Investment and the Cost of Capital 9.2 A Model of Investment with Adjustment Costs 9.3 Tobin's q 9.4 Analyzing the Model 9.5 Implications 9.6 Empirical Application: q and Investment 9.7 The Effects of Uncertainty 9.8 Kinked and Fixed Adjustment Costs 9.9 Financial-Market Imperfections 9.10 Empirical Application: Cash Flow and Investment Chapter 10 UNEMPLOYMENT 10.1 Introduction: Theories of Unemployment 10.2 A Generic Efficiency-Wage Model 10.3 A More General Version 10.4 The Shapiro-Stiglitz Model 10.5 Contracting Models 10.6 Search and Matching Models 10.7 Implications 10.8 Empirical Applications Chapter 11 INFLATION AND MONETARY POLICY 11.1 Inflation, Money Growth, and Interest Rates 11.2 Monetary Policy and the Term Structure of Interest Rates 11.3 The Microeconomic Foundations of Stabilization Policy 11.4 Optimal Monetary Policy in a Simple Backward-Looking Model 11.5 Optimal Monetary Policy in a Simple Forward-Looking Model 11.6 Additional Issues in the Conduct of Monetary Policy 11.7 The Dynamic Inconsistency of Low-Inflation Monetary Policy 11.8 Empirical Applications 11.9 Seignorage and Inflation Chapter 12 BUDGET DEFICITS AND FISCAL POLICY 12.1 The Government Budget Constraint 12.2 The Ricardian Equivalence Result 12.3 Ricardian Equivalence in Practice 12.4 Tax-Smoothing 12.5 Political-Economy Theories of Budget Deficits 12.6 Strategic Debt Accumulation 12.7 Delayed Stabilization 12.8 Empirical Application: Politics and Deficits in Industrialized Countries 12.9 The Costs of Deficits 12.10 A Model of Debt Crises Epilogue THE FINANCIAL AND MACROECONOMIC CRISIS OF 2008 AND BEYOND