Handbook of Macroeconomics
- 1st Edition, Volume 2B - December 20, 2016
- Editors: John B. Taylor, Harald Uhlig
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 4 - 5 9 4 6 6 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 4 - 5 9 4 7 7 - 8
Handbook of Macroeconomics surveys all major advances in macroeconomic scholarship since the publication of Volume 1 (1999), carefully distinguishing between empirical, theoretic… Read more
Handbook of Macroeconomics surveys all major advances in macroeconomic scholarship since the publication of Volume 1 (1999), carefully distinguishing between empirical, theoretical, methodological, and policy issues. It courageously examines why existing models failed during the financial crisis, and also addresses well-deserved criticism head on.
With contributions from the world's chief macroeconomists, its reevaluation of macroeconomic scholarship and speculation on its future constitute an investment worth making.
- Serves a double role as a textbook for macroeconomics courses and as a gateway for students to the latest research
- Acts as a one-of-a-kind resource as no major collections of macroeconomic essays have been published in the last decade
Graduate students and professors worldwide working in all subdisciplines of economics and finance. Secondary audience will include researchers working in macroeconomics and related areas, such as growth, economic behavior, international economics, and modeling
Section 3: Financial-Real Connections
Chapter 17: "Wholesale Banking and Bank Runs in
Macroeconomic Modelling of Financial Crises"
Chapter 18: "Housing and Credit Markets: Bubbles and Crashes"
Chapter 19: Macro, Money and Finance: A Continuous-Time Approach
Chapter 20: Housing and Macroeconomics
Chapter 21: Term Structure of Uncertainty in the Macroeconomy
Chapter 22: Quantitative Models of Sovereign Debt Crises
Section 4: Models of Economic Growth and Fluctuations
Chapter 23: Families in Macroeconomics
Chapter 24: Environmental Macroeconomics
Chapter 25: The Staying Power of Staggered Wage and Price Setting Models in Macroeconomics
Chapter 26: Neoclassical Models in Macroeconomics
Chapter 27: Macroeconomics of Persistent Slumps
Chapter 28: Macroeconomics and the Labor Market
Section 5: Macroeconomic Policy
Chapter 29: Challenges for Central BanksMacro Models
Chapter 30: Liquidity requirements, liquidity choice and financial stability
Chapter 31: "Understanding Inflation as a Joint Monetary-Fiscal Phenomenon"
Chapter 32: "Fiscal Multipliers: Liquidity Traps and Currency Unions"
Chapter 33: What is a Sustainable Public Debt?
Chapter 34: The Political Economy of Government Debt
Chapter 17: "Wholesale Banking and Bank Runs in
Macroeconomic Modelling of Financial Crises"
Chapter 18: "Housing and Credit Markets: Bubbles and Crashes"
Chapter 19: Macro, Money and Finance: A Continuous-Time Approach
Chapter 20: Housing and Macroeconomics
Chapter 21: Term Structure of Uncertainty in the Macroeconomy
Chapter 22: Quantitative Models of Sovereign Debt Crises
Section 4: Models of Economic Growth and Fluctuations
Chapter 23: Families in Macroeconomics
Chapter 24: Environmental Macroeconomics
Chapter 25: The Staying Power of Staggered Wage and Price Setting Models in Macroeconomics
Chapter 26: Neoclassical Models in Macroeconomics
Chapter 27: Macroeconomics of Persistent Slumps
Chapter 28: Macroeconomics and the Labor Market
Section 5: Macroeconomic Policy
Chapter 29: Challenges for Central BanksMacro Models
Chapter 30: Liquidity requirements, liquidity choice and financial stability
Chapter 31: "Understanding Inflation as a Joint Monetary-Fiscal Phenomenon"
Chapter 32: "Fiscal Multipliers: Liquidity Traps and Currency Unions"
Chapter 33: What is a Sustainable Public Debt?
Chapter 34: The Political Economy of Government Debt
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 2B
- Published: December 20, 2016
- Language: English
JT
John B. Taylor
John B. Taylor is the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University and the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. He is also the director of Stanford's Introductory Economics Center. His research focuses on macroeconomics, monetary economics and international economics. He co-edited Volume 1 of the Handbook of Macroeconomics and recently wrote Getting Off Track, one of the first books on the financial crisis, and First Principles: Five Keys to Restoring America’s Prosperity. He served as senior economist and Member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. From 2001 to 2005, he served as undersecretary of the U.S. Treasury for international affairs. Taylor was awarded the Hoagland Prize and the Rhodes Prize by Stanford University for excellence in undergraduate teaching and the Stanford Economics Department Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award. He received the Truman Medal for Economic Policy for extraordinary contribution to the formation and conduct of economic policy, the Bradley Prize for his economic research and policy achievements, the Adam Smith Award from the National Association for Business Economics, the Alexander Hamilton Award and the Treasury Distinguished Service Award for his policy contributions at the US Treasury, and the Medal of the Republic of Uruguay for his work in resolving the 2002 financial crisis. Taylor received a BA in economics summa cum laude from Princeton and a PhD in economics from Stanford.
Affiliations and expertise
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USAHU
Harald Uhlig
Harald Uhlig, born 1961, is Professor at the Department of Economics of the University of Chicago since 2007, and was chairman of that department from 2009 to 2012. Previously, he held positions at Princeton, Tilburg University and the Humboldt Universität Berlin. His research interests are in quantitative macroeconomics, financial markets and Bayesian econometrics. He served as co-editor of Econometrica from 2006 to 2010 and as editor of the Journal of Political Economy since 2012 (head editor since 2013). He is a consultant of the Bundesbank, the European Central Bank and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society and a recipient of the Gossen Preis of the Verein für Socialpolitik, awarded annually to an economist in the German-language area whose work has gained an international reputation.
Affiliations and expertise
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA