Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Econometrics

What tools are available for setting and analyzing monetary policy?

World-renowned contributors examine recent evidence on subjects as varied as price-setting, inflation persistence, the private sector's formation of inflation expectations, and the monetary policy transmission mechanism. Stopping short of advocating conclusions about the ideal conduct of policy, the authors focus instead on analytical methods and the changing interactions among the ingredients and properties that inform monetary models. The influences between economic performance and monetary policy regimes can be...

What are the goals of monetary policy and how are they transmitted?

Top scholars summarize recent evidence on the roles of money in the economy, the effects of information, and the growing importance of nonbank financial institutions. Their investigations lead to questions about standard presumptions about the rationality of asset markets and renewed interest in fiscal-monetary connections. Stopping short of advocating conclusions about the ideal conduct of policy, the authors focus instead on analytical methods and the changing interactions among the ingredients and properties...

Dieses Lehrbuch liefert eine systematische Einfuhrung in die Makrookonomik. Zunachst werden die makrookonomische Analysetechnik und die Volkswirtschaftliche Gesamtrechnung vorgestellt sowie elementare formale Methoden erlautert. Anschliessend wird die Technik der makrookonomischen Modellierung vermittelt. Ausgehend von einem einfachen Gutermarktmodell werden makrookonomische Modelle entwickelt, die die Volkswirtschaft zunehmend vollstandiger und damit realistischer abbilden. Im Rahmen dieser Modelle wird dann die Wirksamkeit alternativer gesamtwirtschaftlicher Politikmassnahmen evaluiert....

Formal decision and evaluation models are so widespread that almost no one can pretend not to have used or suffered the consequences of one of them. This book is a guide aimed at helping the analyst to choose a model and use it consistently. A sound analysis of techniques is proposed and the presentation can be extended to most decision and evaluation models as a "decision aiding methodology."

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 Stanford University Department of Economics and by the Stanford Institute of Economic Policy Research in August 2002.