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Macroeconomic Theory

Fluctuations, Inflation and Growth in Closed and Open Economies

  • Offers a comprehensive and updated approach to macroeconomics studies
  • Deals with fundamental aspects of sticky and flexible prices models
  • Covers microfounded and ad hoc models of mainstream macroeconomics
  • Presents closed and open economies models
  • Analyzes the main issues of monetary and fiscal policies
  • Analyzes, with the same framework, the pathologies of external and public debt crises and hyperinflation
  • Uses dynamical systems, as a mathematical tool, to build models
  • Uses the same structure to analyze models: specification, dynamical system equilibrium and stability, and comparative dynamics experiments
  • Includes an appendix that deals with the mathematical tools used in the text
  • Includes a list of exercises in each chapter
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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
  2. Flexible Price Models

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. The Representative Agent Model

      • Fernando de Holanda Barbosa
      Pages 3-32
    3. The Open-Economy Representative Agent Model

      • Fernando de Holanda Barbosa
      Pages 33-61
    4. Overlapping Generations

      • Fernando de Holanda Barbosa
      Pages 63-87
    5. The Solow Growth Model

      • Fernando de Holanda Barbosa
      Pages 89-118
    6. Economic Growth: Endogenous Savings and Growth

      • Fernando de Holanda Barbosa
      Pages 119-151
  3. Sticky Price Models

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153
    2. Economic Fluctuation and Stabilization

      • Fernando de Holanda Barbosa
      Pages 197-238
    3. Open Economy Macroeconomics

      • Fernando de Holanda Barbosa
      Pages 239-265
    4. Economic Fluctuation and Stabilization in an Open Economy

      • Fernando de Holanda Barbosa
      Pages 267-304
  4. Monetary and Fiscal Policy Models

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 305-305
    2. Government Budget Constraint

      • Fernando de Holanda Barbosa
      Pages 307-338
    3. Monetary Theory and Policy

      • Fernando de Holanda Barbosa
      Pages 339-369
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 371-456

About this book

Macroeconomics is the application of economic theory to the study of the economy’s growth, cycle and price-level determination. Macroeconomics takes account of stylized facts observed in the real world and builds theoretical frameworks to explain such facts. Economic growth is a stylized fact of market economies, since England’s nineteenth-century industrial revolution. Until then, poverty was a common good for humanity. Economic growth consists in the persistent, smooth and sustained increase of per-capita income. A market economy shows periods of expanding and contracting economic activity. This phenomenon is the economic cycle. The price of money is the amount of goods bought with one unit of money, in other words, the inverse of the price level. Determination of the price level, or the value of money, is a fascinating subject in a fiat money economy.

Authors and Affiliations

  • FGV EPGE Escola Brasileira de Economia e Finanças, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Fernando de Holanda Barbosa

About the author

Fernando de Holanda Barbosa is Professor of Economics at FGV EPGE Brazilian School of Economics and Finance. He has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago. He is the author of many academic articles in monetary economics and some are collected in the book Exploring the Mechanics of Chronic Inflation and Hyperinflation (Springer, 2017).

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