Behavioural Macroeconomics
Theory and Policy
(Sprache: Englisch)
Modern macroeconomics has been based on the paradigm of the rational individual capable of understanding the complexity of the world. Challenging this paradigm using simple rules of behaviour this book applies a new model to real-life macroeconomic problems.
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Modern macroeconomics has been based on the paradigm of the rational individual capable of understanding the complexity of the world. Challenging this paradigm using simple rules of behaviour this book applies a new model to real-life macroeconomic problems.
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Modern macroeconomics has been based on the paradigm of the rational individual capable of understanding the complexity of the world. This has created a very shallow theory of the business cycle in which nothing happens in the macroeconomy unless shocks occur from outside. Behavioural Macroeconomics: Theory and Policy uses a different paradigm. It assumes that individual agents experience cognitive limitations preventing them from having rational expectations. Instead these individuals use simple rules of behaviour. Behavioural Macroeconomics introduces rationality by allowing individuals to learn from their mistakes and to switch to the rules that perform better. It introduces the idea of endogenously generated "animals spirits" that drive the business cycle and are in turn influenced by it, and applies this model to shed new light on a number of important issues. It analyses the role of fiscal policy in stabilizing the economy while maintaining debt sustainability; expands the model to include a banking sector and show how banks amplify the booms and busts; and explains how animal spirits help to synchronize the business cycles across countries.
The model set out in Behavioural Macroeconomics leads to very different policy implications from the mainstream macroeconomic model. It shows how policymakers have a responsibility to stabilize an otherwise unstable system.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Behavioural Macroeconomics “
- Part I: The Basics
- 1: The need for a new approach in macroeconomic modeling
- 2: The basic behavioral model
- 3: Inertia in macroeconomic variables
- 4: Non-normality in the output gap
- 5: How are shocks transmitted?
- 6: Simple and Complex Rules
- Part II: Applications
- 7: Optimal monetary policies
- 8: Inflation targets and the zero lower bound
- 9: Monetary policy and structural reforms
- 10: Animal spirits and fiscal policy
- 11: Banks in the behavioral model
- 12: Synchronization of business cycles. The role of animal spirits
Autoren-Porträt von Paul De Grauwe, Yuemei Ji
Paul De Grauwe is John Paulson Professor at the London School of Economics, He was a member of the Belgian parliament from 1991 to 2003. He is honorary doctor of the University of St Gallen (Switzerland), the University of Turku (Finland), the University of Genoa, the University of Valencia and Maastricht University. He is a research fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels and CEPR fellow in London. He is vice-chair of the Portuguese Fiscal Council. His research interests are in the economics of monetary unions and behavioural macroeconomics. His book publications include: The Limits of the Market (Oxford University Press, 2017), The Economics of Monetary Union (Oxford University Press, 12th Edition, 2018), and Lectures on Behavioral Macroeconomics (Princeton University Press, 2012).
Yuemei Ji is a lecturer in Economics at University College London. She is an associate research fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels. Her research interests cover macroeconomics in general and the European Monetary Union during the post-crisis period in particular. She has done intensive research on the causes of Eurozone debt crisis and its impact on the austerity policies in the Eurozone. She is a co-editor of The Political Economy of Structural Reforms in Europe (Oxford University Press, 2018)
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: Paul De Grauwe , Yuemei Ji
- 2019, 274 Seiten, Maße: 17,6 x 25,4 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 019883232X
- ISBN-13: 9780198832324
- Erscheinungsdatum: 22.06.2020
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Presents new theoretical macroeconomic models based on individuals' complexity, heterogeneity, and cognitive limitations, addressing the current implausible assumptions of mainstream macroeconomics about human behavior and the capacity of human beings to comprehend the world they live in. Journal of Economic Literature (Volume 59, no. 1)
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