Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
About the Authors
Contents
Preface
THE CORE
Introduction
Chapter 1 A Tour of the World
1-1 The Crisis
1-2 The United States
1-3 The Euro Area
1-4 China
1-5 Looking Ahead
Appendix: Where to Find the Numbers
Chapter 2 A Tour of the Book
2-1 Aggregate Output
2-2 The Unemployment Rate
2-3 The Inflation Rate
2-4 Output, Unemployment, and the Inflation Rate: Okun’s Law and the Phillips Curve
2-5 The Short Run, the Medium Run, the Long Run
2-6 A Tour of the Book
Appendix: The Construction of Real GDP, and Chain-Type Indexes
The Short Run
Chapter 3 The Goods Market
3-1 The Composition of GDP
3-2 The Demand for Goods
3-3 The Determination of Equilibrium Output
3-4 Investment Equals Saving: An Alternative Way of Thinking about Goods—Market Equilibrium
3-5 Is the Government Omnipotent? A Warning
Chapter 4 Financial Markets
4-1 The Demand for Money
4-2 Determining the Interest Rate: I
4-3 Determining the Interest Rate: II
4-4 Two Alternative ways of looking at the Equilibrium
Chapter 5 Goods and Financial Markets: The IS-LM Model
5-1 The Goods Market and the IS Relation
5-2 Financial Markets and the LM Relation
5-3 Putting the IS and the LM Relations Together
5-4 Using a Policy Mix
5-5 How Does the IS-LM Model Fit the Facts?
Appendix: An Alternative Derivation of the LM Relation as an Interest Rate Rule
The Medium Run
Chapter 6 The Labor Market
6-1 A Tour of the Labor Market
6-2 Movements in Unemployment
6-3 Wage Determination
6-4 Price Determination
6-5 The Natural Rate of Unemployment
6-6 Where We Go from Here
Appendix: Wage- and Price-Setting Relations versus Labor Supply and Labor Demand
Chapter 7 Putting All Markets Together: The AS–AD Model
7-1 Aggregate Supply
7-2 Aggregate Demand
7-3 Equilibrium in the Short Run and in the Medium Run
7-4 The Effects of a Monetary Expansion
7-5 A Decrease in the Budget Deficit
7-6 An Increase in the Price of Oil
7-7 Conclusions
Chapter 8 The Phillips Curve, the Natural Rate of Unemployment, and Inflation
8-1 Inflation, Expected Inflation, and Unemployment
8-2 The Phillips Curve
8-3 A Summary and Many Warnings
Appendix: From the Aggregate Supply Relation to a Relation between Inflation, Expected Inflation, and Unemployment
Chapter 9 The Crisis
9-1 From a Housing Problem to a Financial Crisis
9-2 The Use and Limits of Policy
9-3 The Slow Recovery
The Long Run
Chapter 10 The Facts of Growth
10-1 Measuring the Standard of Living
10-2 Growth in Rich Countries since 1950
10-3 A Broader Look across Time and Space
10-4 Thinking About Growth: A Primer
Chapter 11 Saving, Capital Accumulation, and Output
11-1 Interactions between Output and Capital
11-2 The Implications of Alternative Saving Rates
11-3 Getting a Sense of Magnitudes
11-4 Physical versus Human Capital
Appendix: The Cobb-Douglas Production Function and the Steady State
Chapter 12 Technological Progress and Growth
12-1 Technological Progress and the Rate of Growth
12-2 The Determinants of Technological Progress
12-3 The Facts of Growth Revisited
Appendix: Constructing a Measure of Technological Progress
Chapter 13 Technological Progress: The Short, the Medium, and the Long Run
13-1 Productivity, Output, and Unemployment in the Short Run
13-2 Productivity and the Natural Rate of Unemployment
13-3 Technological Progress, Churning, and Distribution Effects
13-4 Institutions, Technological Progress, and Growth
EXTENSIONS
Expectations
Chapter 14 Expectations: The Basic Tools
14-1 Nominal versus Real Interest Rates
14-2 Nominal and Real Interest Rates, and the IS–LM Model
14-3 Money Growth, Inflation, Nominal and Real Interest Rates
14-4 Expected Present Discounted Values
Appendix: Deriving the Expected Present Discounted Value Using Real or Nominal Interest Rates
Chapter 15 Financial Markets and Expectations
15-1 Bond Prices and Bond Yields
15-2 The Stock Market and Movements in Stock Prices
15-3 Risk, Bubbles, Fads, and Asset Prices
Chapter 16 Expectations, Consumption, and Investment
16-1 Consumption
16-2 Investment
16-3 The Volatility of Consumption and Investment
Appendix: Derivation of the Expected Present Value of Profits under Static Expectations
Chapter 17 Expectations, Output, and Policy
17-1 Expectations and Decisions: Taking Stock
17-2 Monetary Policy, Expectations, and Output
17-3 Deficit Reduction, Expectations, and Output
The Open Economy
Chapter 18 Openness in Goods and Financial Markets
18-1 Openness in Goods Markets
18-2 Openness in Financial Markets
18-3 Conclusions and a Look Ahead
Chapter 19 The Goods Market in an Open Economy
19-1 The IS Relation in the Open Economy
19-2 Equilibrium Output and the Trade Balance
19-3 Increases in Demand, Domestic or Foreign
19-4 Depreciation, the Trade Balance, and Output
19-5 Looking at Dynamics: The J-Curve
19-6 Saving, Investment, and the Current Account Balance
Appendix: Derivation of the Marshall-Lerner Condition
Chapter 20 Output, the Interest Rate, and the Exchange Rate
20-1 Equilibrium in the Goods Market
20-2 Equilibrium in Financial Markets
20-3 Putting Goods and Financial Markets Together
20-4 The Effects of Policy in an Open Economy
20-5 Fixed Exchange Rates
Appendix: Fixed Exchange Rates, Interest Rates, and Capital Mobility
Chapter 21 Exchange Rate Regimes
21-1 The Medium Run
21-2 Exchange Rate Crises under Fixed Exchange Rates
21-3 Exchange Rate Movements under Flexible Exchange Rates
21-4 Choosing between Exchange Rate Regimes
Appendix 1: Deriving Aggregate Demand under Fixed Exchange Rates
Appendix 2: The Real Exchange Rate and Domestic and Foreign Real Interest Rates
Back to Policy
Chapter 22 Should Policy Makers Be Restrained?
22-1 Uncertainty and Policy
22-2 Expectations and Policy
22-3 Politics and Policy
Chapter 23 Fiscal Policy: A Summing Up
23-1 What We Have Learned
23-2 The Government Budget Constraint: Deficits, Debt, Spending, and Taxes
23-3 Ricardian Equivalence, Cyclical Adjusted Deficits, and War Finance
23-4 The Dangers of High Debt
Chapter 24 Monetary Policy: A Summing Up
24-1 What We Have Learned
24-2 The Optimal Inflation Rate
24-3 The Design of Monetary Policy
24-4 Challenges from the Crisis
Chapter 25 Epilogue: The Story of Macroeconomics
25-1 Keynes and the Great Depression
25-2 The Neoclassical Synthesis
25-3 The Rational Expectations Critique
25-4 Developments in Macroeconomics to the 2009 Crisis
25-5 First Lessons for Macro-economics after the Crisis
Appendix 1 An Introduction to National Income and Product Accounts
Appendix 2 A Math Refresher
Appendix 3 An Introduction to Econometrics
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