This book presents overwhelming evidence that US government stimulus programs over the past fifty years have not worked. Using the best and most modern econometric testing models, it applies 228 separate hard science tests to examine the effects of different stimulus models that should, in...

This book explores the US economy from 1960 to 2010 using a more Keynsian, Cowles model approach, which the author argues has substantial advantages over the vector autoregression (VAR) and dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models used almost exclusively today. Heim presents a robust...

Part-1: Introductory Chapter -- chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Literature Review -- Chapter 3: Methodology.-Part-2: Theory of crowd out and accommodative monetary policy -- Chapter 4: Theory of Crowd Out and Accommodative Monetary Policy -- chapter 5: A Simplified Balance Sheet View of...

Introduction -- The Impact of Investor Sentiment on REIT Returns -- Investor Sentiment and the Return and Volatility of REITs and Non-REITs during the Financial Crisis -- The Impact of Consumer Sentiment on the Number of New Home Sales -- Dissertation Conclusions.