Introductory Lecture -- Housing in DSGE Models: Findings and New Directions -- Housing and the Business Cycles -- Housing and the Macroeconomy: The Italian Case -- Cyclical Relationships Between GDP and Housing Market in France: Facts and Factors at Play -- Does Housing Really Lead the Business...

This book gives a comprehensive description of macroeconometric modeling and its development over time. The first part depicts the history of macroeconometric model building, starting with Jan Tinbergen's and Lawrence R. Klein's contributions. It is unique in summarizing the development and...

This book presents a macroeconomic dynamic model à la Solow-Swan, including the market for labor, in a discrete time structure. The model is expanded to include expenditure on RD and public expenditure on infrastructure. For each of the three models the results are shown in time series figures,...

Part I: Introductory Matter -- 1.Utility and Demand -- 2.Elements of Production -- Part II: Models -- 3.Cournot I: Constant Returns -- 4.Cournot II: Returns to Scale and Stability -- Bertrand -- 6.Stackelberg -- 7.Hotelling Duopoly -- 8.Disequilibrium Trade and Pricing of Durable Commodities --...

This book gives an introduction to R to build up graphing, simulating and computing skills to enable one to see theoretical and statistical models in economics in a unified way. The great advantage of R is that it is free, extremely flexible and extensible. The book addresses the specific needs...

Starting point of this book is the observation that an increase in public debt must be accompanied by a rise in the primary surplus of the government to guarantee sustainability of public debt. The book first elaborates on that principle from a theoretical point of view and then tests whether...