Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the Fourth Edition -- Introduction and Overview -- Part I: Macroeconomic Accounts, Market Structure, and Behavioral Functions -- Chapter 1. Economic Structure and Aggregate Accounts -- Chapter 2. Behavioral Functions -- Part II: Financial Policies -- Chapter...

Biographical note: Roman Frydman is professor of economics at New York University and the coauthor (with Michael D. Goldberg) of "Beyond Mechanical Markets" and "Imperfect Knowledge Economics". Edmund S. Phelps, the winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Economics, is director of Columbia...

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....