Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- 1 Introduction -- 2 An Overview -- 3 Mathematical Preliminaries -- 4 Dynamic Programming under Certainty -- 5 Applications of Dynamic Programming under Certainty -- 6 Deterministic Dynamics -- 7 Measure Theory and Integration -- 8 Markov Processes -- 9 Stochastic...

The last twenty years have witnessed tremendous advances in the mathematical, statistical, and computational tools available to applied macroeconomists. This rapidly evolving field has redefined how researchers test models and validate theories. Yet until now there has been no textbook that...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Preliminaries -- 2. DSGE Models, Solutions, and Approximations -- 3. Extracting and Measuring Cyclical Information -- 4. VAR Models -- 5. GMM and Simulation Estimators -- 6. Likelihood Methods -- 7. Calibration -- 8. Dynamic Macro Panels -- 9....