A dynamic general equilibrium approach, 2nd edn, by wickens, michael princeton university press, princeton, nj, 2011, pp. Princeton university press, princeton and oxford, 2011. Macroeconomic theory and analysis final exam, may 8th 2003 you have 1 hour and 50 minutes for this exam. The most important omission is the fact that these notes do not cover dynamic macroeconomic models in any detail. Each result is illustrated with analytical derivations, graphically, and by worked out examples. In general, early theorists believed monetary factors could not affect real factors such as real output.
Consider the islm framework in a fixedprice level model of a closed economy. It was an interesting time for economic speculation considering the dramatic adverse effect of the great depression. Alternative theories have made claims with respect both to the purity of their methodology and to. This revised second edition emphasizes the general equilibrium character of macroeconomics to explain effects across the whole economy while taking into account recent research in the field. Recursive macroeconomic theory international growth centre. Macroeconomic theory has its origins in the study of business cycles and monetary theory. The consumption function, government debt and taxes, and dynamic. I learned and am still learning dynamic macroeconomics from a series of great teachers. Macroeconomic theory jeanpascal bonassy problemssolutions. Electronic calculators are allowed, but neither books nor classnotes are permitted. Keynesian macroeconomic models assume that prices are sticky, or even. Textbook references in the syllabus are denoted in bold type. There will be two midterms march 9 and april 15 each counting for 25% of the final grade. The sequence to sargents dynamic macroeconomic theory with uptodate examples and applications of recursive methods.
Monetarism focuses on the macroeconomic effects of the supply of money and the role of central banking on an economic system. Major theories in macroeconomics boundless economics. Macroeconomics, study of the behaviour of a national or regional economy as a whole. E excess supply in the money market but equilibrium. Thus, these notes are not a substitute for a textbooklecture i. Macroeconomic theory and analysis final exam, may 4th 2006 you have 2 hours for this exam. It represents the current, stateoftheart macroeconomic theory.
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John maynard keynes published a book in 1936 called the general theory of employment. Impact of macroeconomic factors on economic growth in. We have assumed that the economy discounts speriods ahead using the geometric or. Grades will be based on one midterm, homework assignments, and the final exam. This book truly offers something new by emphasizing the general equilibrium character of. In constructing the macroeconomic framework, the guiding principle will be an aim to organize the main macroeconomic facts. Macroeconomic theory is the most uptodate graduatelevel macroeconomics textbook available today. The impact of nonoecd economic developments on oecd economies. The exercises not only illustrate the theoretical foundations of macroeconomic research but also treat issues and problems from the recent literature. Macroeconomics is a branch of economics dealing with the performance, structure, behavior. Neoclassical macroeconomic modelscommonlyassumethatpricesareperfectly. Full text of macroeconomic theory internet archive. Modern macroeconomic theory with emphasis on shortrun general equilibrium models.
According to these theories, regulation increases social welfare. V chari, timothy kehoe and ed ward prescott, my excolleagues at stanford, robert hall, beatrix paal and tom. This includes regional, national, and global economies while macroeconomics is a broad field of study, there are two areas of research that are emblematic of the discipline. While you have taken intermediate macro, most of mishkins book is meant to be accessible to less prepared students. Find materials for this course in the pages linked along the left. There is today a large discrepancy in the way macroeconomic theory is. If you skip one of the midterms, then the final exam will count for 75%, and if you miss both it will count for 100% of the final grade.
It is concerned with understanding economywide events such as the total amount of goods and services produced, the level of unemployment, and the general behaviour of prices. While you have taken intermediate macro, most of mishkins book. Notes on macroeconomic theory steve williamson dept. The consumption function, government debt and taxes, and dynamic optimal taxation. An intermediate level macroeconomics textbook that develops the core elements of modern macroeconomic theory in easily digestible bits using indifference curves, budgets constraints, and simple math. Macroeconomic theory, in its first edition, was widely adopted for use as a graduate text.
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This graduate textbook is a primer in macroeconomics. A dynamic general equilibrium approach second edition a dynamic general equilibrium approach second edition xviii, 596 pp. Mar 19, 2020 although complex macroeconomic structures have been characteristic of human societies since ancient times, the discipline of macroeconomics is relatively new. This theory is a synthesis between classical economics and keynesian economics that was created to help explain stagflation high rates of both unemployment and inflation that emerged in the 1970s. J to give the students an overview of contemporary macroeconomic theory and to make the students understand and analyze relationships among different macroeconomic variables such as national income, employment, consumption, inflation and the quantity of money, student will be able to understand the role of government. For help with downloading a wikipedia page as a pdf, see help. Interpreting the past and predicting the future with a twosector rbc model, elsevier for the society of economic dynamics 1.
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Develops in a simple and rigorous manner the central topics of modern macroeconomic theory including rational expectations, growth, business cycles, money, unemployment, government policy, and the macroeconomics of nonclearing markets. Munich personal repec archive macroeconomic theory and policy 2nd edition andolfatto, david simon fraser university 1 january 2008 online at. The emphasis in this manual is on how to use the methods and procedures presented in macroeconomic theory, second edition to solve its exercises. Economics 210 is centered on constructing and understanding macroeconomic models.
Macroeconomic variables can then be computed by summing up the actions of all individuals. Bohn this course will examine the linkages between interest rates, money, output, and inflation in more detail than mishkins book. John maynard keynes attacked some of these classical theories and produced a general theory that described the whole economy in terms of aggregates rather than individual, microeconomic parts. Until the 1930s most economic analysis was focused on microeconomic phenomena and concentrated primarily on the study of individual consumers, firms and industries. John maynard keynes published a book in 1936 called the general theory of employment, interest, and money, laying the groundwork for his legacy of the keynesian theory of economics. Fundamental to public interest theories are market failures and efficient government intervention.