Business Cycles: Theory and Empirical Methods

In macrodynamics and business cycle analysis we find nowadays a variety of approaches elaborating frameworks for studying the fluctuations in economic and financial data. These approaches are viewed from Keynesian, monetarist and rational expectations standpoints. There are now also numerous empiric...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Semmler, Willi (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1994, 1994
Edition:1st ed. 1994
Series:Recent Economic Thought
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • I Complex Dynamics in the Business Cycle
  • 1 Business Cycles and Long Waves: A Behavioral Disequilibrium Perspective
  • 2 Competitive Markets and Endogenous Cycles: An Evaluation
  • 3 Analytical and Numerical Methods in the Study of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems in Keynesian Macroeconomics
  • 4 Business Cycles, Fiscal Policy, and Budget Deficits
  • 5 Continuous-Time Dynamical Models with Distributed Lags
  • II Monetary and Financial Factors in the Business Cycle
  • 6 Price Flexibility and Output Stability: An Old Keynesian View
  • 7 The Stability of Models of Monetary Growth with Adaptive Expectations or Myopic Perfect Foresight
  • 8 A Model of the Financial Sector and Its Reaction to Aggregate Fluctuations
  • 9 External Finance, Investment Expenditure and the Business Cycle
  • 10 Monetary Factors and Gestation Lag in a Kaleckian Model of the Business Cycle
  • III Testing for Nonlinearities in the Business Cycle
  • 11 Asymmetric Economic Propagation Mechanisms
  • 12 Asymmetries in Business Cycles: Econometric Techniques and Empirical Evidence
  • 13 Testing for Chaos and Nonlinearities in Macroeconomic Time Series
  • 14 Using U-Statistics to Detect Business Cycle Nonlinearities
  • 15 The Time Reversibility Test with Application to Financial Data