This chapter develops a toolkit of neoclassical macroeconomic models, and applies these models to the U.S. economy from 1929 through 2014. We first filter macroeconomic time series into business cycle and long-run components, and show that the long-run component is typically much larger than the...

This chapter develops a toolkit of neoclassical macroeconomic models, and applies these models to the U.S. economy from 1929 through 2014. We first filter macroeconomic time series into business cycle and long-run components, and show that the long-run component is typically much larger than the...

This is consequent upon an earlier paper of mine (Non linear economic time series as a test bed for dynamic macro models) which was an exercise in using nonlinear time series analysis (NLTS) to assess the fit of a dynamic nonlinear macro economic process, the Goodwin model, against...