Handbook of Macroeconomics

Handbook of Macroeconomics surveys all major advances in macroeconomic scholarship since the publication of Volume 1 (1999), carefully distinguishing between empirical, theoretical, methodological, and policy issues. It courageously examines why existing models failed during the financial crisis, and also addresses well-deserved criticism head on.

With contributions from the world's chief macroeconomists, its reevaluation of macroeconomic scholarship and speculation on its future constitute an investment worth making.

Serves a double role as a textbook for macroeconomics courses and as a gateway for students to the latest researchActs as a one-of-a-kind resource as no major collections of macroeconomic essays have been published in the last decade

Section 1: The Facts of Economic Growth and Economic Fluctuation 1. RBC Methodology and the Development of Aggregate Economic Theory 2. The Facts of Economic Growth 3. Macroeconomic Shocks and Their Propagation 4. Macroeconomic Regimes and Regime Shifts 5. The Macroeconomics of Time Allocation 6. "Who Bears the Cost of Recessions? The Role of House Prices and Household Debt" 7. "Allocative and Remitted Wages: New Facts and Challenges for Keynesian Models" 8. Financial and Fiscal Crises

Section 2: The Methodology of Macroeconomics 9. Factor Models and Structural Vector Autoregressions in Macroeconomics 10. Solution and Estimation Methods for DSGE Models 11. Recursive Contracts and Endogenously Incomplete Markets 12. Macroeconomics and Household Heterogeneity 13. Natural Experiments in Macroeconomics 14. Accounting for Business Cycles 15. Incomplete Information in Macroeconomics: Accommodating Frictions in Coordination 16. New Methods for Macro-Financial Model Comparison and Policy Analysis