Macroeconomic Policy /

Macroeconomic Policy / / Robert J. Barro.

Combining powerful insights from theory with close observation of data, Robert Barro’s new book goes a long way toward the establishment of an empirically based macroeconomic theory. Barro first presents a positive theory of government economic policymaking by using applied game theory to model stra...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package
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Barro, Robert J.,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©1990
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Reprint 2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (379 p.) :; 230 equations, 12 figures, 20 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • PART I. Rules versus Discretion
  • 1. Developments in the Theory of Rules versus Discretion
  • 2. A Positive Theory of Monetary Policy in a Natural Rate Model
  • 3. Rules, Discretion, and Reputation in a Model of Monetary Policy
  • 4. Inflationary Finance under Discretion and Rules
  • 5. Reputation in a Model of Monetary Policy with Incomplete Information
  • PART II. Money and Business Fluctuations
  • 6. Intertemporal Substitution and the Business Cycle
  • 7. Time-Separable Preferences and Intertemporal-Substitution Models of Business Cycles
  • 8. Interest-Rate Targeting
  • PART III. Fiscal Policy
  • 9. The Ricardian Approach to Budget Deficits
  • 10. U.S. Deficits since World War I
  • 11. On the Predictability of Tax-Rate Changes
  • 12. Output Effects of Government Purchases
  • 13. Government Spending, Interest Rates, Prices, and Budget Deficits in the United Kingdom, 1701–1918
  • Index

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