We study the dynamic relationship between the public debt ratio and the real interest rate. By means of a macroeconomic model of simultaneous difference equations - one for the debt ratio and the other for the real interest rate - we focus on the role of monetary policy, fiscal policy and risk...

This textbook offers a compact, yet formal, synthesis of the broad field of consumption theory. Written in a coherent and accessible way, this book introduces graduate and postgraduate students to dynamic optimization applied to consumption under certainty and uncertainty, in discrete and...