This paper updates through the 1992 election the equation originally presented in Fair (1978) explaining votes for president. Conditional predictions of the 1996 election are also made.

I have been doing research in macroeconomics since the late 1960s, almost 50 years. In this paper I pause and take stock. The paper is part personal reflections on macroeconometric modeling, part a road map of the techniques of macroeconometric modeling, and part comments on what I think I have...

An important question for central banks is how they should report the uncertainty of their forecasts. This paper discusses a way in which a central bank could report the uncertainty of its forecasts in a world in which it used a single macroeconometric model to make its forecasts and guide its...

Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The MC Model -- 3. Interest Rate Effects -- 4. Testing the NAIRU Model -- 5. U.S. Wealth Effects -- 6. Testing for a New Economy in the 1990s -- 7. A "Modern" View of Macroeconomics -- 8....

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Figures -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The MC Model -- 3 Interest Rate Effects -- 4 Testing the NAIRU Model -- 5 U.S. Wealth Effects -- 6 Testing for a New Economy in the 1990s -- 7 A "Modern" View of Macroeconomics -- 8 Estimated European...