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Informationen zum Autor Thomas J. Sargent joined New York University as the first W.R. Berkley Professor in September 2002. He was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Economics, shared with Princeton University's Christopher Sims, for his empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy. Professor Sargent was a professor of economics at the University of Minnesota (1975- 87), the David Rockefeller Professor at the University of Chicago (1992- 98), and the Donald Lucas Professor of Economics at Stanford University (1998- 2002). He has been a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution since 1987. He earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University and was a first lieutenant and captain in the US Army. He was elected a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is past president of the Econometric Society, the American Economic Association, and the Society for Economic Dynamics. Among his books is 'Robustness' (with L. P. Hansen, Princeton University Press, 2008).Jouko Vilmunen is Head of Research at the Bank of Finland. He joined the Bank in 1988, after working as a lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of Helsinki. Dr Vilmunen gained his PhD in 1992, after which he entered the research department of the Bank of Finland as a research supervisor. In 1994, he joined the European Commission as a national expert. In addition to his position at the Bank of Finland, Dr Vilmunen also gives lectures at universities and business schools, including lectures on monetary policy at the University of Helsinki, and open economy macroeconomics at the School of Business, Aalto University. Klappentext This book uses state of the art models from the frontier of macroeconomics to answer key questions about how the economy functions and how policy should be conducted. It includes contributions on the market as a bearer of risk, the European Debt crisis, and possible stagflation of the US economy. Zusammenfassung This book uses state of the art models from the frontier of macroeconomics to answer key questions about how the economy functions and how policy should be conducted. It includes contributions on the market as a bearer of risk, the European Debt crisis, and possible stagflation of the US economy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part 1: Financial Crisis and Recovery 1: Kenneth Arrow: Is the Market System an Efficient Bearer of Risk? 2: Hans-Werner Sinn: The European Debt Crisis 3: George Evans: The Stagnation Regime of the New Keynesian Model and Recent US Policy Part 2: Learning, Incentives, and Public Policy 4: George Evans, Seppo Honkapohja and Kaushik Mitra: Notes on Agents' Behavioral Rules Under Adaptive Learning and Studies of Monetary Policy 5: In-Koo Cho and Kenneth Kasa: Learning and Model Validation: An Example 6: George Evans, Seppo Honkapohja, Thomas J. Sargent, and Noah Williams: Bayesian Model Averaging, Learning, and Model Selection 7: David Evans and Thomas J. Sargent: History Dependent Public Policies 8: William Branch, George Evans and Bruce McGough: Finite Horizon Learning 9: Jess Benhabib: Regime Switching, Monetary Policy, and Multiple Equilibria 10: Martin Ellison and Chryssi Giannitsarou: Too Many Dragons in the Dragons' Den 11: Erkki Koskela: Impacts of Labor Taxation Reform Under Heterogeneous Domestic Labor Markets and Flexible Outsourcing ...
