Learning and expectations in macroeconomics

A crucial challenge for economists is figuring out how people interpret the world and form expectations that will likely influence their economic activity. Inflation, asset prices, exchange rates, investment, and consumption are just some of the economic variables that are largely explained by expectations. Here ...

Teoría de los precios y aplicaciones

Para motivar el interés del estudiante, el autor recurre a aplicaciones del mundo real, las cuales se han obtenido tanto de la prensa económica como de la literatura académica. Las referencias al comportamiento actual de las empresas y de los consumidores refuerzan la materia teórica ...

Trade, development and the environment

In recent years the relationships between trade and the environment, and trade and development, have become increasingly complex. The need to reconcile the competing demands of economic growth, economic development, and environmental protection has become central to the multilateral trade agenda. In this volume various ...

Labour unions, public policy and economic growth

List of figures; Preface; Overview; 1. Basic concept of game theory; 2. Collective bargaining without investment; 3. The use of corrective taxes and subsidies; 4. Taxation and production efficiency; 5. Credibility in collective bargaining; 6. Monopoly unions and sluggish investment; 7. Ordinary wages verses profit-sharing ...

Curso de macroeconomía

Curso de macroeconomía es un manual que cubre de forma compacta y actualizada los contenidos centrales de un curso de macroeconomía intermedia, y donde el material teórico se ilustra con referencias a la economía española. En esta segunda edición se ha revisado y actualizado completamente ...

Ejercicios de macroeconomía intermedia

El libro Ejercicios de macroeconomía intermedia contiene ejercicios cuya clasificación y nomenclatura se corresponden con las del Curso de macroeconomía, 2ª Ed., publicado por esta editorial, aunque puede utilizarse como complemento de cualquier otro texto de macroeconomía intermedia.

Apuntes de crecimiento económico

Estas notas pretenden poner al alcance del estudiante de economía una descripción razonada del estado actual del pensamiento económico en temas de crecimiento. Se trata de los apuntes de los cursos impartidos por el profesor Sala-i-Martin en las universidades de Columbia, Harvard, Pompeu Fabra y ...

The Mystery of Capital

why capitalism triumphs in the west and fails everywhere else

Agent-based computer simulation of dichotomous economic growth.

Essays on the Great Depression

This is a collection of Ben Bernanke's essays on why the Great Depression was so devastating and lasted so long. The essays also show that while the it was an unparalleled disaster on a universal scale, some economies pulled up faster than others, and ...

Monetary economics

This textbook seeks to break new ground in developing an integrated and comprehensive overview of advanced monetary economics. It achieves this by integrating the presentation of monetary theory with its heritage, empirical formulations and their empirical tests. Rather than confine the coverage to the demand ...

Taxation, wealth, and saving

The papers in this volume reflect David Bradford's dual experience as a theoretical economist and as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the United States Treasury for Tax Policy and Director of the Treasury's Office of Tax Analysis. While at the Treasury, Bradford was involved ...

Handbook of macroeconomics

volume 1B

This text aims to provide a survey of the state of knowledge in the broad area that includes the theories and facts of economic growth and economic fluctuations, as well as the consequences of of monetary and fiscal policies for general economic conditions.

Why wages don't fall during a recession

A deep question in economics is why wages and salaries don't fall during recessions. this is not true of other prices, which adjust relatively quickly to reflect changes in demand and supply. Although economists have posited many theories to account for wage rigidity, none ...

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Macroeconomía

primeros conceptos

El libro del profesor Díaz-Giménez es una primera aproximación sencilla, amena y rigurosa al apasionante mundo de la macroeconomía, sus problemas y sus métodos de estudio. Con la ayuda de datos de la economía española e internacional, docenas de gráficos, cientos de ejemplos y ejercicios ...

Dynamic macroeconomics

instability, fluctuations and growth in monetary economies

Dynamic Macroeconomics is an attempt to revitalize the traditions of nonmarket clearing approaches to macroeconomics. Using sophisticated tools from dynamic analysis, the authors introduce a consistent, integrated framework for disequilibrium macroeconomic dynamics and explore its relationship to the competing--and currently dominant--equilibrium dynamics.The book is ...

Teoría positiva del capital

Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk es el líder indiscutible de la segunda generación de economistas de la llamada Escuela Austriaca de Economía y su Teoría Positiva del Capital, nos dice Schumpeter, es imprescindible dentro del instrumental de todo teórico y ha llegado a convertirse, con mucho, en ...

Endogenous growth theory

Aghion and Howitt is a real breakthrough in growth economics. This book has profound implications and should be read by anyone who is serious about studying economic growth" -- Nicholas Crafts, Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science Advanced economies have experienced ...

Macroeconomics

Robert Barro's Macroeconomics has become the classic textbook presentation of the equilibrium approach to macroeconomics. In its first four editions, this book has shown undergraduates how market-clearing models with strong microeconomic foundations can be used to understand real-world phenomena and to evaluate alternative macroeconomic ...