This article extends earlier efforts at redating the US industrial cycles for the prewar period (1890-1938) using the methodologies proposed by Bry and Boschan (1971) and Hamilton (1989) and based on the monthly industrial production index constructed by Miron and Romer (1990). The alternative...

This article applies nonparametric methods to the monthly monetary stock time series of the Reichsbank, constructed in weekly data, with 2160 observations, covering the time period January 1876 to December 1920. Our analysis begins with a historical description followed by a cliometric application.

This article extends earlier efforts at redating the US business cycles for the 1790–1928 period using the real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) constructed by Johnson and Williamson (2007). We compare the alternative chronology with those of the NBER and Davis (2006) as well as Romer (1994) for...

New Trends in Macroeconomics provides a new approach to the subject. The principal aim of the book is to present a comprehensive survey of novel theoretical approaches, methods, and models used in macroeconomics and macroeconometrics. The book gives extensive insight into economic policy,...