Essays in Macroeconomics of an Open Economy

The large aggregates in the economy - consumption, investment, production of the domestic and the international sectors, international capital flows, financial accumulation and indebtedness - are analysed in this book as problems in time-optimisation for enterprises and households. The effects of fi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gehrels, Franz
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1991, 1991
Edition:1st ed. 1991
Series:Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • I The Growth Path
  • A. Allocation under Full Employment
  • B. Allocation with Underemployment
  • II On Aggregate Stability of Closed and Open Economies
  • A The Closed Economy
  • B. The Open Economy
  • C. Concluding Remarks
  • III Underutilized Resources
  • A. The Case of Full Complementarity
  • B. An Economy with Mixed Forms of Production
  • C. Concluding Remarks
  • IV Risk Averse, Time Optimizing Behavior of Households: Comparison With German Microcensus Data
  • A. A Risk-Averse Time-Optimizing Model
  • B. Comparison with Some Evidence
  • C. Concluding Remarks
  • V Investment Behavior In An Open Economy
  • A. Price, Output, and Factor-Combination Decisions of the Firm
  • B. Investment Decisions
  • C. The Investment Function in Three Sectors
  • D. Changing Investment under Full Employment
  • E. Risk Aversion and Risk Avoidance
  • VI The Labor Market And Wage Determination
  • A. The Wage Rate Endogenous
  • B. The Wage Rate as Exogenous Variable
  • C Money Wages and the Rate of Inflation
  • D. Real Wage Determination under Full Employment
  • E. Summary
  • VII The Market For Financial Assets And Monetary Policy
  • A. Characterization of the Monetarist View
  • VIII Growth Once More: Income And Claims To Wealth
  • A. Claims to Wealth
  • B. Growth of Public Debt and Debt Service
  • C. External Claims
  • D. The International Exchange of Assets
  • Author Index