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August 2000
7 x 9, 737 pp., 50 illus.
(CLOTH)
Short

ISBN-10:
0-262-19451-1
ISBN-13:
978-0-262-19451-8

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Recursive Macroeconomic Theory
Lars Ljungqvist and Thomas J. Sargent

Recursive methods offer a powerful approach in dynamic macroeconomics. This book contains both an introduction to recursive tools, including standard applications such as asset pricing, and advanced material, including analyses of reputational mechanisms and contract design. The tools are presented with enough technical sophistication to get the reader started working on practical problems. When numerical simulations are called for, the book provides suggestions for how to proceed, as well as references for further reading.

The applications cover many substantive issues in macroeconomics, such as equilibrium asset prices, market incompleteness, wealth distribution, fiscal-monetary theories of inflation, government debt, optimal labor and capital taxation, time consistency and credible government policies, optimal social insurance, economic growth, and labor market dynamics.

About the Authors

Lars Ljungqvist is Professor of Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics.

Thomas J. Sargent is Berkley Professor of Economics and Business at New York University and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution.




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