TY  - BOOK
AU  - McCandless,George
TI  - The ABCs of RBCs: An Introduction to Dynamic Macroeconomic Models 
SN  - 9780674033788
AV  - HB141 .M395 2008eb
U1  - 339.01/5195 22
PY  - 2009///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Business cycles
KW  - Econometric models
KW  - Macroeconomics
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Macroeconomics
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Introduction --; PART ONE: BASIC MODELS AND SOLUTION METHODS --; 1 The Basic Solow Model --; 2 Savings in an OLG Model --; 3 Infinitely Lived Agents --; 4 Recursive Deterministic Models --; 5 Recursive Stochastic Models --; 6 Hansen’s RBC Model --; 7 Linear Quadratic Dynamic Programming --; PART TWO: EXTENSIONS OF THE BASIC RBC MODEL --; 8 Money: Cash in Advance --; 9 Money in the Utility Function --; 10 Staggered Pricing Model --; 11 Staggered Wage Setting --; 12 Financial Markets and Monetary Policy --; 13 Small Open Economy Models --; References --; Index; restricted access
N2  - The ABCs of RBCs is the first book to provide a basic introduction to Real Business Cycle (RBC) and New-Keynesian models. These models argue that random shocks—new inventions, droughts, and wars, in the case of pure RBC models, and monetary and fiscal policy and international investor risk aversion, in more open interpretations—can trigger booms and recessions and can account for much of observed output volatility. George McCandless works through a sequence of these Real Business Cycle and New-Keynesian dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models in fine detail, showing how to solve them, and how to add important extensions to the basic model, such as money, price and wage rigidities, financial markets, and an open economy. The impulse response functions of each new model show how the added feature changes the dynamics. The ABCs of RBCs is designed to teach the economic practitioner or student how to build simple RBC models. Matlab code for solving many of the models is provided, and careful readers should be able to construct, solve, and use their own models. In the tradition of the “freshwater” economic schools of Chicago and Minnesota, McCandless enhances the methods and sophistication of current macroeconomic modeling
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674033788?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674033788
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674033788/original
ER  -