This book analyzes the dynamic macroeconomic effects of public capital in industrialized countries. The issue of whether public capital is productive has received a great deal of recent attention. Yet, existing empirical analyses have been limited to a small set of countries. This book presents...

Part I Introduction -- Chapter 1 Introduction to Modern Macroeconomic Models -- Chapter 2 Time to Improve the Existing Models -- Part II Dynamic Macroeconomic Modelling -- Chapter 3 Traditional Dynamic Macroeconomic Models -- Chapter 4 Modern Mainstream Macroeconomic Models -- Part III The...

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...