Macroeconomics category: 2722 books
Understanding DSGE models
Theory and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
While the theoretical development of DSGE models is not overly difficult to understand, practical application remains somewhat complex. The literature on this subject has some significant obscure points. This book can be thought of, firstly, as a tool to overcome initial hurdles with this type of...
Asymmetric Demography and the Global Economy
Growth Opportunities and Macroeconomic Challenges in an Ageing World
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
The global demographic transition presents marked asymmetries as poor, emerging, and advanced countries are undergoing different stages of transition. Emerging countries are demographically younger than advanced economies. This youth is favorable to growth and generates a demographic dividend. However,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Eastern Enlargement of the EU identifies the major fiscal challenges facing Central European countries on the road to European Union accession. The Introduction and three other chapters are on broad macro-economic issues, and four `sectoral' chapters follow these on such questions as the fiscal...
Analytical Issues in Trade, Development and Finance
Essays in Honour of Biswajit Chatterjee
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
The book’s 30 chapters are divided into three sections – international trade, economic development, macroeconomics and finance – and focus on the frontier issues in each.
Section I addresses analytical issues relating to trade-environment linkage, capital accumulation for pollution abatement,...
Toward a Just Society
Joseph Stiglitz and Twenty-First Century Economics
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
Joseph Stiglitz is one of the world’s greatest economists. He has made fundamental contributions to economic theory in areas such as inequality, the implications of imperfect and asymmetric information, and competition, and he has been a major figure in policy making, a leading public intellectual,...
Employment, Growth and Development
Essays on a Changing World Economy
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
This book examines the critical themes of employment, growth and development to focus on challenges and opportunities, both old and new, in the contemporary world economy. The essential theme that runs through the book is that there is a strong relationship not only between employment and growth,...
Economic Growth and Development
A Dynamic Dual Economy Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2018
This text is an introduction to the newer features of growth theory that are particularly useful in examining the issues of economic development. Growth theory provides a rich and versatile analytical framework through which fundamental questions about economic development can be examined. Structural...
by Jefferson Frank
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
After the ‘financial crisis’ and ‘Great Recession’, some have called for replacing standard economic theory by heterodox models based upon behavioural approaches. The Responsible Economy argues that there is nothing wrong with economic theory. Instead, the problem has been a ‘devil’s pact’...
by Liu Shucheng
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Liu Shucheng is a famous Chinese economist who has a major impact on the study of China's macroeconomics and quantitative economics. Selecting some of Liu's representative studies on Chinese macroeconomy, this book will be a valuable reference for understanding and studying Chinese economy.
The...
Wynne Godley
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
This timely biography of the economist Wynne Godley (1926-2010) charts his long and often crisis-blown route to a new way of understanding whole economies. It shows how early frustrations as a policy-maker enabled him to glimpse the cliff-edges other macro-modellers missed, and re-arm ‘Keynesian’...
Non-Tariff Barriers, Regionalism and Poverty
Essays in Applied International Trade Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Non-Tariff Barriers, Regionalism and Poverty is a collection of key articles in three important areas of applied international trade research: measuring non-tariff barriers and their effects, the consequences of regional trading arrangements, especially on the countries excluded from them, and the...
by Anthony J. Makin
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
This book presents alternative macroeconomic perspectives, primarily open economy, on the limitations of discretionary fiscal policy, with a focus on government spending. Following an overview on the post-crisis Keynesian revival and of the macro-foundations needed for subsequent analysis, different...
Prevention and Crisis Management
Lessons for Asia from the 2008 Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Four years have passed since the onset of the 2008 global crisis, and although some believe that there may be a second down draft soon, attention has shifted from crisis narration to assessing lessons essential for preventing or managing recurrences. The exercise is worthy, but there is always the...
by Ernst Baltensperger, Peter Kugler
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
This book describes the remarkable path which led to the Swiss Franc becoming the strong international currency that it is today. Ernst Baltensperger and Peter Kugler use Swiss monetary history to provide valuable insights into a number of issues concerning the organization and development of monetary...