For courses in intermediate macroeconomics. Blanchard is the book that helps students to see the big macroeconomic picture by integrating one unifying model throughout the text, without glossing over the core concepts that matter. Blanchard doesn't take shortcuts in his explanation, because students will use these tools again and again, throughout ...
A text for graduate students with some background in macroeconomics, statistics, and econometrics. Describes and evaluates theories to explain fluctuations in the persistent long-term growth of modern economies, as detected in variations of output, unemployment, and movement of prices. Both authors
This work examines the process of economic reform in five European countries - Poland, Hungary, the Czech and Slovak Republics, and Bulgaria. The author argues that two basic machanisms dominate transition. The first is the reallocation between the state sector and the private sector, with contraction of activities in the former and expansion in ...
This book conveys the excitement of macroeconomics, covering many of the main macroeconomic issues of the day--issues often missing from other texts. Its example-rich approach provides a strong emphasis on the role of expectations, the openness of modern economics, and the role of dynamics.
In their earlier report, "Reform in Eastern Europe", the WIDER group assessed the main building blocks of a successful transition in Eastern Europe: stabilization, price liberalization, privatization, and restructuring. For the last three years this group of leading economists has been heavily involved in the reform process. In this new report, ...
This is the eighth in a series of annuals from the National Bureau of Economic Research that are designed to stimulate research on problems in applied economics, to bring frontier theoretical developments to a wider audience, and to accelerate the interaction between analytical and empirical research in macroeconomics.
How can the new governments of Eastern Europe succeed in moving from centrally planned to free market economies? This report identifies and describes the major policy choices to be made and discusses what will work and what will not. "Reform in Eastern Europe" provides a comprehensive statement of reform policy that stands in the mainstream of ...
This is the sixth in a series of annuals from the National Bureau of Economic Research that are designed to stimulate research on problems in applied economics, to bring frontier theoretical developments to a wider audience, and to accelerate the interaction between analytical and empirical research in macroeconomics.
This is the fourth in a series of annuals from the National Bureau of Economic Research that are designed to stimulate research on problems in applied economics, to bring frontier theoretical developments to a wider audience, and to accelerate the interaction between analytical and empirical research in macroeconomics.
This is the fifth in a series of annuals from the National Bureau of Economic Research that are designed to stimulate research on problems in applied economics, to bring frontier theoretical developments to a wider audience, and to accelerate the interaction between analytical and empirical research in macroeconomics.
Is there a solution to Spanish unemployment? This report contends that reducing Spain's current unemployment rate of 25% to 5% within 10 years should be the primary focus of Spain's economic policy.
The third title in the MECB series begins with a review of the main events of the year and how the ECB has dealt with them. The authors focus mainly on eurozone inflation and the exchange rate of the euro but also address a few specific issues, such as transparency of monetary policy and the related decision, recently announced by the ECB, to ...
The seventh in a series of annuals from the National Bureau of Economic Research designed to stimulate research on problems in applied economics, bring theoretical developments to a wider audience and to accelerate the interaction between analytical and empirical research in macroeconomics.
This sequel to "Reform in Eastern Europe" is a report on one of the most pressing issues for countries with economies in transition and their neighbours. Focusing on the problem of East-West migration, the authors delineate and promote the notion of European free trade and capital flows as a means of raising productivity and increasing worker ...
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