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Essays in Macroeconomics of an Open Economy

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  • © 1991

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Authors:
  1. Franz Gehrels

    1. Seminar für Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen, Universität München, München 22, Germany

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems (LNE, volume 362)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages N1-VII
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  2. Introduction

    • Franz Gehrels
    Pages 1-4

  3. The Growth Path

    • Franz Gehrels
    Pages 5-20

  4. On Aggregate Stability Of Closed and Open Economies

    • Franz Gehrels
    Pages 21-44

  5. Underutilized Resources

    • Franz Gehrels
    Pages 45-71

  6. Risk Averse, Time Optimizing Behavior Of Households: Comparison With German Microcensus Data

    • Franz Gehrels
    Pages 72-96

  7. Investment Behavior in an Open Economy

    • Franz Gehrels
    Pages 97-121

  8. The Labor Market and Wage Determination

    • Franz Gehrels
    Pages 122-142

  9. The Market For Financial Assets And Monetary Policy

    • Franz Gehrels
    Pages 143-155

  10. Growth Once More: Income And Claims To Wealth

    • Franz Gehrels
    Pages 156-174

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 175-186
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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 fiscal and monetary policies along with exchange-rate variation are examined, and their simultaneous use for stabilizing demand are found to be necessary. All household decisions on consumptions, savings, and financial disposition are conditioned by uncertainty, and similarly for firms, who make more complex simultaneous decisions on production, real investment, financing, and market strategy. The marginal efficiency-of-investment function derived from these decisions is fundamentally different from the marginal productivity of capital in the neoclassical sense. An economy which grows through the accumulation of capital, increase in labor supply, and technological progress is the framework in which all of these variables move. This codetermines the allocation of factors between domestic and international production, and the development of foreign trade. The growth both of the public debt and of international investment are treated in depth.

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  • Seminar für Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen, Universität München, München 22, Germany

    Franz Gehrels

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