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This paper examines Robert E. Lucas's views on the relationship of macroeconomics to real world economic phenomena, and on Keynes's place in its history, suggesting that these stem from a particular and debatable understanding of how the subdiscipline has evolved. It considers some implications...
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stable equilibrium in combination with rational expectations allow the conclusion that a built-in process of quick self … equilibrium and of strong disequilibrium. Hence the paper ends with the proposal to utilize a number of sub-models each one of …
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Robert Solow has criticized our 2006 Journal of Economic Perspectives essay describing Modern Macroeconomics in Practice. Solow eloquently voices the commonly heard complaint that too much macroeconomic work today starts with a model with a single type of agent. We argue that modern...
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Krugman has recently revitalized IS-LM with a number of succinct analytical pieces on his blog. The reverberations were remarkable. Economists, however, are known often not grasp the full content of their own and, a fortiori, of others' models. This happened to Keynes in the days of high theory...
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equilibrium system, and therefore loanable funds …
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of medium of exchange, money. The core microfoundation in this model comes from the Arrow-Debreu general equilibrium …
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The monetary economy has properties that cannot be analyzed using the tools of today's dynamic general equilibrium … trading at "false" prices, a phenomenon ruled out by assumption in dynamic general equilibrium models. Not only Keynes … thought of as relying on this factor. -- Crises ; money ; monetary economy ; general equilibrium ; cycles ; sticky prices …
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This paper analyses two types of models: 1. Those based on assumptions of monetary and financial market equilibrium …
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This paper proposes to exploit data on expectations to identify news shocks in business cycles. News shocks work through changes in expectations, so data on expectations contain important information for identification. We demonstrate this by estimating a DSGE model augmented with news shocks...
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Neoclassical economics is bifurcated between Marshall’s partial-equilibrium and Walras’s general-equilibrium analyses … flexibility leads to equilibrium derives from Marshallian PE analysis, with prices equilibrating supply and demand. But … Marshallian PE analysis presumes that all markets, but the small one being analyzed, are at equilibrium, so that price adjustments …
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