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Numerical solution methods allow us to handle the rich dsge models that are needed for business cycle. Economic fluctuations and growth we study the effects of changes in uncertainty about future fiscal policy on aggregate economic activity. Expectations, employment and prices brings keynesian economics into the 21st century by providing a new paradigm that explains how high unemployment could potentially persist forever without a little help from the government. Rubioramirez in this paper the authors report the results of the estimation of a rich dynamic stochastic general equilibrium dsge model of the u. Keynesian economics has its original roots in john maynard keynes s 1936 influential book, entitled the general theory of employment, interest and money, which founded macroeconomics as a. Economics econ book is, of course, wealth and income inequality, and we have decided to give some focus to the issue in the current issue. To those readers affiliated with the university of chicago. Fiscal uncertainty and economic activity cato institute.
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V chari, timothy kehoe and ed ward prescott, my excolleagues at stanford, robert hall, beatrix paal and tom. Macroeconomic theory dirk krueger1 department of economics university of pennsylvania january 26, 2012 1i am grateful to my teachers in minnesota, v. The econometrics of dsge models, pier working paper archive 09008, penn institute for economic research, department of economics, university of pennsylvania. Macroeconomists have been caricatured either as credulous savants in love with the beauty of their mathematical models or as freemarket fundamentalists who admit no doubt as to the markets wisdom. Jun 18, 2014 fiscal uncertainty and economic activity. Macroeconometrics and time series analysis springerlink. The book fills in logical gaps that were missing from keynes general theory of employment interest and money by reconciling some of its key ideas with modern economic theory. But i am more inclined to represent it as a new tradition, farmerian economics. Numerical solution methods allow us to handle the rich dsge models that are needed for business cycle analysis, policy analysis, and forecasting.
First, i discuss the evolution of dsge models over the last couple of decades. The econometrics of dsge models, cepr discussion papers 7157, c. Jesus fernandez villaverde, university of pennsylvania. Nov 17, 2014 to those readers affiliated with the university of chicago. The economist jesus fernandezvillaverde, university of pennsylvania, a leader in the field of computational economics and coauthor of the paper that motivated my switch to julia, is speaking at the computational economics colloquium, becker friedman institute, on thursday at 5pm. I am grateful to sebastian di tella, jesus fernandezvillaverde, jeremy. About the trend, journal of monetary economics 58, january 2012, available online. Likelihood estimation of dsge models with epsteinzin. Home jesus fernandez villaverde, university of pennsylvania september, 2011 2011 12 sep 2.
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