Overview
- Analyses contemporary public policy problems in the state-of-the-art models of macroeconomic theory
- Provides quantitative public policy implications
- Includes programs and data for all simulations and computations which can be downloaded from the author’s website
- Offers self-contained material for courses
Part of the book series: Springer Texts in Business and Economics (STBE)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Useful Models
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Front Matter
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Fiscal Policy
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Social Security, Demographics, and Debt
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Back Matter
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About this book
Today, the most pressing challenges for public economics are of macroeconomic nature: pensions, debt, income distribution, and fiscal sustainability. All these problems are compounded by the phenomenon of demographic transition and aging. This graduate textbook addresses these issues with the help of state-of-the-art macroeconomic tools that are based on a sound microfoundation and rooted in empirical evidence. Different from the standard partial-equilibrium analysis in traditional textbooks on public economics, the concept of general equilibrium helps to account for compensating or amplifying side-effects of economic policy.
GAUSS and MATLAB computer code as well as teaching material (slides) are available as downloads from the author's homepage.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Burkhard Heer is professor of public economics at the University of Augsburg, Germany. Previously, he was professor of economics at the Universities of Bolzano, Bamberg, and Innsbruck. Burkhard Heer received his Phd in economics from the University of Cologne, Germany, in 1996. He was visiting scholar at various institutions including Georgetown University, Stanford University, Fordham University at New York, University of Quebec at Montreal, University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Federal Reserve Bank at St. Louis, and a summer intern at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C. Burkhard Heer is also affiliated with the Center for Economic Studies (CESifo), Munich. His research interests include public economics and macroeconomics. He also published a Springer textbook on “Dynamic General Equilibrium Modeling” with Alfred Maußner.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Public Economics
Book Subtitle: The Macroeconomic Perspective
Authors: Burkhard Heer
Series Title: Springer Texts in Business and Economics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00989-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-00987-8Published: 22 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-00989-2Published: 08 February 2019
Series ISSN: 2192-4333
Series E-ISSN: 2192-4341
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 388
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 101 illustrations in colour
Topics: Public Economics, Public Finance, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences, Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods, Financial Crises