Jean-Pascal Benassy

Macroeconomic Theory

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This graduate textbook is a "primer" in macroeconomics. It starts with essential undergraduate macroeconomics and 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. The emphasis throughout the book is on both foundations and presenting for each topic the simplest model that will deliver the relevant answers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 608
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 259mm x 181mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 1215g
• ISBN-13: 9780195387711
• ISBN-10: 0195387716
• Artikelnr.: 31977603

Autorenporträt

Jean-Pascal Bénassy graduated from Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris and has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at Berkeley. He is currently Director of Research at National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and a Research Fellow at Center for Economic Research and its Applications (CEPREMAP).

Inhaltsangabe

1.: Growth
2.: Output, Inflation and Stabilization
3.: Rational Expectations
4.: Intertemporal Equilibria with Optimizing Agents
5.: Nonclearing Markets and Imperfect Competition
6.: Uncertainty and Financial Assets
7.: The Ramsey Model
8.: Overlapping Generations
9.: Endogenous Growth
10.: Competitive Business Cycles
11.: Money
12.: Money and Cycles
13.: Nominal Rigidities and Fluctuations
14.: Consumption, Investment, Inventories and Credit
15.: Unemployment: Basic Models
16.: A Dynamic View of Unemployment
17.: Policy: The Public Finance Approach
18.: Stabilization policies
19.: Dynamic Consistency and Credibility
20.: Political Economy
A Mathematical Appendix