New thinking in macroeconomics

social, institutional, and environmental perspectives

Presenting new and innovate perspectives on macroeconomics at the national and international levels, the editors bring together contributions on a wide range of topics incluideng: current issues of globalization; transitional economies; inequality; unemployment; national and international debt; and the relationship of macrieconomic policies to the ...

Una Nuova Economia Keynesiana

La Nuova Economia Keynesiana (NEK) affronta questioni cui la Macroeconomia Neoclassica non riesce a fornire spiegazione soddisfacente - l'esistenza di disoccupazione involontaria e gli effetti reali degli shock monetari - analizzando le conseguenze macroeconomiche delle imperfezioni dei mercati dei beni, del lavoro e dei capitali. Le ...

Dynamic macroeconomic analysis

theory and policy in general equilibrium

Dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models have begun to dominate the field of macroeconomic theory and policy-making. These models describe the evolution of macroeconomic activity as a recursive sequence of outcomes based upon the optimal decision rules of rational households, firms and policy-makers. Whilst posing ...

An encyclopedia of macroeconomics

The Encyclopedia of Macroeconomics is an authoritative and invaluable reference source on macroeconomics, which embraces definitions of terms and concepts, conflicting ideological approaches and the contributions of major thinkers. Comprehensive in scope, it contains over 300 short entries and more than 100 specially commissioned main ...

The political economy of European unemployment

European integration and the transtionalization of the (un)employment question

This edited collection examines unemployment in Europe in the context of globalisation, the implementation of European Monetary Union and the Eastern enlargement of the EU. It combines theoretical chapters with detailed case-studies of Britain, The Netherlands, Italy, Spain and Central Europe. INDICE 1. Henk Overbeek ...

Unemployment, market structure and growth

The recent labour-market performance varies greatly between the United States and continental Europe on the one hand, and between the low- and high-skilled on the other. This book starts by presenting up-to-date empirical evidence on these stylised facts and on the importance of the intensity ...

How to reduce unemployment in Europe

Including contributions from some of the world's most respected economists, this volume examines the performance of the European labour market compared to the US market and the countries in Europe that might represent a best and worst practice, and offers "an economists' manifesto for ...

Experiencing wages

social and cultural aspects of wage forms in Europe since 1500

European and Canadian contributors from the distinct but related fields of wage and labor history offer different perspectives on the fundamental question of how people were paid for their work. Table of Contents: List of Figures and Tables 1 The wage in Europe since the ...

Business cycles in the contemporary world

description, causes, aggregation, and synchronization

Contents: 1. Introduction PART I. METHODOLOGY 2. General Considerations and Historiography 3. The Analysis of Cyclical Dynamics PART II. NATIONAL, SUPRA- AND INTERNATIONAL CYCLES 4. The G7 and Euro15 Economies: 1960-2000 5. Mode-Locking and the Global Cycle PART III. THE SECTORAL CONSTITUTION OF MACRO-CYCLES 6 ...

General equilibrium

problem and prospects

Certain leading figures in the world of economics have called the usefulness of general equilibrium theory into question. This volume brings together leading economic theorists with important contributions to the ongoing debate

The Big Mac index

applications of purchasing power parity

PPP is one of the most widely researched areas in international finance and one of the most controversial in the theory of exchange rate determination. This book demonstrates the applications of Purchasing Power Parity in exchange rate determination as well as more practical applications of ...

Les théories des crises économiques

Les crises économiques sont-elles inéluctables ? Quel rôle jouent-elles dans la croissance économique ? Quelles sont la nature et l#ampleur des désaccords entre les théoriciens des crises ? Ce livre s#intéresse aux principales théories des crises pour mieux comprendre la situation économique actuelle. C#est aussi ...

Asset prices, booms and recessions

financial market, economic activity and the macroeconomy

The book studies the interaction of the financial market, economic activity and the macroeconomy from a dynamic perspective. The financial market to be studied here encompasses the money and bond market, credit market, stock market and foreign exchange market. Economic activity is described by the ...

Investment

theories and analysis

This text provides an examination of the key macroeconomic theories which underpin fixed asset investment. It would make ideal reading for an intermediate level macroeconomics course or a module on fixed asset investment taking an applied macroeconomic perspective. Table of Contents Section I Introduction: introduction ...

Assets, beliefs, and equilibria in economic dynamics

essya in honor of Mordecai Kurz

A collection of papers dealing with a broad range of topics in mathematical economics, game theory and economic dynamics. The contributions present both theoretical and applied research. The volume is dedicated to Mordecai Kurz. The papers were presented in a special symposium co-hosted by the ...

General equilibrium analysis

existence and optimality properties of equilibra

General Equilibrium Analysis is a systematic exposition of the Walrasian model of economic equilibrium with a finite number of agents, as formalized by Arrow, Debreu and McKenzie at the beginning of the fifties and since then extensively used, worked and studied. Existence and optimality of ...

Open economy macrodynamics

an integrated disequilibrium approach

In the first part of this book, we treat interacting and small open economies. We do this from an historical perspective, starting from the Classical model of the gold standard and the specie-flow mechanism and aim to show there that the Dornbusch IS-LM-PC approach, with ...

Economic dynamics in transitional economies

the Four-P governments, the EU-enlargement, and the Bruxelles consensus

Examines the post-Communist, transitional economies of Central and Eastern Europe

Análisis del entorno económico de la empresa

Las empresas, los consumidores, los inversores, los políticos y, en general, todos los ciudadanos deben tomar continuamente decisiones económicas que se ven afectadas, en mayor o menor medida, por el grado de dinamismo del entorno económico del país en el que desarrollan sus actividades. En ...

Old and new growth theories

an assessment

Since the late 1980s, economic growth has again become a central topic in economic theorising. Recent endogenous growth theory has greatly contributed to the development of the field. "Old and New Growth Theories" analyses the most recent developments in the theory of economic growth and ...