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Have macroeconomic models lost their connection with economic reality?

Veen, Tom van - 2020

Macroeconomic theory has developed into increasingly sophisticated mathematical models. In the words of Mankiw … the development of macroeconomic theory over the past 40 years. The focus is on the main lines of thinking and the story … changes in macroeconomic theory and that the current debates after the GFC will be the start of a more plural approach to …

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Behavioral economics and macroeconomic models

Driscoll, John C.; Holden, Steinar - 2014 - This version: 7 April 2014

Over the past 20 years, macroeconomists have incorporated more and more results from behavioral economics into their models. We argue that doing so has helped fixed deficiencies with standard approaches to modeling the economy-for example, the counterfactual absence of inertia in the standard...

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Searching for Keynes : an essay on the political economy of fiscal policy, with application to Canada, 1870-2000 - revised version

Winer, Stanley L.; Ferris, John Stephen - 2003

Keynes' General Theory (1936) is arguably one of the most important books of the twentieth century. His ideas for … stabilizing the aggregate economy have profoundly influenced economic theory as well as popular opinion about what governments can … and should do with respect to the business cycle. On the other hand, whether Keynesian theory has substantially altered …

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Liquidity traps and large-scale financial crises

Caggiano, Giovanni; Castelnuovo, Efrem; Damette, Olivier; … - 2018

This paper estimates a nonlinear Threshold-VAR to investigate if a Keynesian liquidity trap due to a speculative motive was in place in the U.S. Great Depression and the recent Great Recession. We find clear evidence in favor of a breakdown of the liquidity effect after an unexpected increase in...

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Reasons for the demise of interest : savings glut and secular stagnation or central bank policy?

Mayer, Thomas; Schnabl, Gunther - 2019

, from the perspective of Austrian business cycle theory, interest rates were step by step decreased by central banks to … nihilo and the need of time to produce capital invalidates the IS identity assumed in the Keynesian theory to hold …

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Financial returns to collecting rare political economy books

Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2021

Rare books of political economy are eminently collectable. Using historical prices, I employ hedonic regressions to estimate financial returns to collecting the works of ten eminent political economists and develop a price index for this corpus of collectables. For the observation period...

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Please bring me the New York Times : on the European roots of richard Abel Musgrave

Sinn, Hans-Werner (contributor) - 2007

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Technology shocks and aggregate fluctuations in an estimated hybrid RBC model

Malley, James R.; Woitek, Ulrich - 2009

This paper contributes to the on-going empirical debate regarding the role of the RBC model and in particular of technology shocks in explaining aggregate fluctuations. To this end we estimate the model's posterior density using Markov-Chain Monte-Carlo (MCMC) methods. Within this framework we...

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The war on illegal drugs in producer and consumer countries : a simple analytical framework

Mejía, Daniel (contributor) - 2008

This paper develops a model of the war against illegal drugs in both producer and consumer countries. The paper studies the trade-off faced by the government of the drug consumer country between prevention policies (aimed at reducing the demand for drugs) and enforcement policies (aimed at...

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Population, pensions, and endogenous economic growth

Heer, Burkhard (contributor); Irmen, Andreas (contributor) - 2008

We study the effect of a declining labor force on the incentives to engage in labor-saving technical change and ask how this effect is influenced by institutional characteristics of the pension scheme. When labor is scarcer it becomes more expensive and innovation investments that increase labor...

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