The rapid increase in international trade and financial integration over the past decade and the growing importance of emerging markets in world trade and GDP have inspired the IMF to place stronger emphasis on multilateral surveillance, macro-financial linkages, and the implications of...

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....

This paper investigates the impact of peer observation on the consumption decisions of rural households in Thailand using a lab-in-the-field experiment. We find that those groups that observe each other show lower within group standard deviation in their decisions. Thus, we find evidence for...