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The Encyclopedia of Macroeconomics is an authoritative and invaluable reference source on macroeconomics, which embraces definitions of terms and concepts, conflicting ideological approaches and the contributions of major thinkers. Comprehensive in scope, it contains hundreds of short entries and mo...

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Other Authors: Snowdon, Brian, Vane, Howard R.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham [England] ; Northampton, Mass. : E. Elgar, ©2002
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Table of Contents:
  • Abramovitz, Moses
  • Absolute Income Hypothesis
  • Absorption Approach to the Balance of Payments
  • Accelerator Principle
  • Activism
  • Activist Policy Rule
  • Acyclical Variable
  • Adaptive Expectations
  • AD-AS Model
  • Adjustable Peg System
  • Adverse Selection Model
  • Aggregate Demand
  • Aggregate Demand Management
  • Aggregate Production Function
  • Aggregate Supply
  • Akerlof, George A.
  • Alesina, Alberto
  • American Economic Association
  • Animal Spirits
  • Anticipated Inflation
  • Appreciation (Nominal) of a Currency
  • Assignment Problem
  • Asymmetric Information
  • Automatic Stabilizers
  • Autonomous Expenditure
  • Average Propensity to Consume
  • Average Propensity to Save
  • Average Tax Rate
  • Balance of Payments
  • Balance of Payments-constrained Economic Growth
  • Balance of Payments: Keynesian Approach
  • Balance of Payments: Monetary Approach
  • Balanced Budget Multiplier
  • Barro, Robert J.
  • Bastard Keynesianism
  • Blanchard, Olivier J.
  • Blaug, Mark.
  • Blinder, Alan S.
  • Boom
  • Bretton Woods
  • Brookings Institution
  • Brunner, Karl
  • Budget Balance
  • Budget Deficits: Cyclical and Structural
  • Built-in Stabilizers
  • Burns, Arthur F.
  • Business Cycle
  • Business Cycles: Austrian Approach
  • Business Cycles: Keynesian Approach
  • Business Cycles: Marxian Approach
  • Business Cycles: Monetarist Approach
  • Business Cycles: New Classical Approach
  • Business Cycles: Political Business Cycle Approach
  • Business Cycles: Real Business Cycle Approach
  • Business Cycles: Stylized Facts
  • Cagan, Philip D.
  • Calibration
  • Capital Account
  • Capital-Labour Ratio
  • Capital-Output Ratio
  • Capital-stock Adjustment Principle
  • Catching Up and Convergence
  • Central Bank
  • Central Bank Accountability and Transparency
  • Central Bank Independence
  • Central Parity
  • Classical Dichotomy
  • Classical Economics
  • Classical Model
  • Clean Float
  • Clower, Robert W.
  • Coddington, Alan
  • Cold Turkey
  • Comparative Advantage.
  • Consumption Function
  • Contractionary Phase
  • Convergence
  • Coordination Failures
  • Cost-push Inflation
  • Council of Economic Advisers
  • Countercyclical Policy
  • Countercyclical Variable
  • Cowles Commission
  • Crawling Peg
  • Credibility and Reputation
  • Credit Channels
  • Credit Views in Macroeconomic Theory
  • Crowding Out
  • Current Account
  • Cyclical Unemployment
  • Cyclically Adjusted Budget Balance
  • Davidson, Paul
  • Deflation
  • Demand for Money: Buffer Stocks
  • Demand for Money: Friedman's Approach
  • Demand for Money: Keynesian Approach
  • Demand Management
  • Demand-deficient Unemployment
  • Demand-pull Inflation
  • Denison, Edward F.
  • Depreciation (Nominal) of a Currency
  • Depression
  • Devaluation
  • Dirty Float
  • Discount Rate.
  • Discretionary Policy
  • Disinflation
  • Disposable Income
  • Domar, Evsey D.
  • Dornbusch, Rudiger
  • Dual Decision Hypothesis
  • Duesenberry, James S.
  • Ecological Macroeconomics
  • Econometric Society
  • Economic Growth
  • Economic Growth and the Role of Institutions
  • Efficiency Wage
  • Efficiency Wage Theory
  • Elasticities Approach to the Balance of Payments
  • Employment Act of 1946
  • Endogenous Growth Theory
  • Endogenous Variable
  • Equation of Exchange
  • Euro
  • European Central Bank
  • European Currency Unit
  • European Monetary System
  • European Monetary Union
  • European Union
  • Euroscelerosis
  • Evolutionary Macroeconomics
  • Ex Ante, Ex Post
  • Ex Post
  • Exchange Rate Determination: Monetary Approach
  • Exchange Rate Mechanism
  • Exogenous Variable
  • Expansionary Phase
  • Expectations-augmented Phillips Curve
  • Expenditure Reducing Policy
  • Expenditure Switching Policy
  • Federal Funds Rate
  • Federal Open Market Committee
  • Federal Reserve System.
  • Feedback Rule
  • Feldstein, Martin
  • Financial Instability
  • Fine Tuning
  • Fiscal Policy: Role of
  • Fischer, Stanley
  • Fisher Effect
  • Fisher, Irving
  • Fixed Exchange Rate System
  • Flexible Exchange Rate System
  • Floating Exchange Rate System
  • Forecasting
  • Foreign Exchange Reserves
  • Foreign Trade Multiplier
  • Frictional Unemployment
  • Friedman, Milton
  • Frisch, Ragnar A.K.
  • Full Employment
  • Full Employment Budget Balance
  • Full Employment Output
  • Functional Finance
  • GDP Deflator
  • GDP in Current Prices
  • GDP in Real Prices
  • General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
  • General Theory
  • Globalization
  • Gold Standard
  • Golden Age Growth
  • Gordon, Robert J.
  • Government Budget Constraint
  • Gradualism
  • Gradualism versus Cold Turkey
  • Great Depression
  • Great Inflation
  • Greenspan, Alan
  • Gross Domestic Product
  • Gross National Product
  • Group of Five
  • Group of Seven
  • Growth Accounting
  • Hansen, Alvin H.
  • Harrod, Roy F.
  • Harrod-Domar Growth Model
  • Hayek, Friedrich A. von
  • Heckscher-Ohlin Approach to International Trade
  • Hicks, John Richard
  • High-powered Money
  • Human Capital
  • Hume, David
  • Hydraulic Keynesianism
  • Hyperinflation
  • Hysteresis
  • Identity
  • Implementation Lag
  • Incomes Policy
  • Indexation
  • Inflation
  • Inflation: Alternative Theories of
  • Inflation: Costs of
  • Inflation: Costs of Reducing
  • Inflation Rate
  • Inflation Targeting
  • Inflation Tax
  • Inside Lag
  • Inside Money
  • Insider-Outsider Theory
  • International Monetary Fund
  • Intertemporal Substitution of Labour
  • Investment: Accelerator Theory of
  • Investment: Neoclassical Theories of
  • Involuntary Unemployment in Keynes's General Theory
  • Involuntary Unemployment in Keynesian Economics
  • IS-LM Model: Closed Economy
  • IS-LM Model: Open Economy
  • John Bates Clark Medal
  • Johnson, Harry G.
  • Jorgenson, Dale W.
  • Kahn, Richard F.
  • Kaldor, Nicholas
  • Kalecki, Michal
  • Keynes Effect.
  • Keynes, John Maynard.
  • Keynes's General Theory
  • Keynesian Cross
  • Keynesian Economics
  • Keynesian Economics: Reappraisals of
  • Kindleberger, Charles P.
  • Klein, Lawrence R.
  • Kuznets, Simon S.
  • Kydland, Finn E.
  • Laffer Curve
  • Leijonhufvud, Axel
  • Lender of Last Resort
  • Lerner, Abba P.
  • Lewis, W. Arthur
  • Life Cycle Hypothesis
  • Lipsey, Richard G.
  • Liquidity
  • Liquidity Preference
  • Liquidity Trap
  • Loanable Funds Theory
  • Long-run Phillips Curve
  • Lucas Critique
  • Lucas, Robert E. Jr
  • Lucas 'Surprise' Supply Function
  • Macroeconometric Models
  • Malinvaud, Edmond
  • Managed Float
  • Mankiw, N. Gregory
  • Marginal Efficiency of Capital
  • Marginal Efficiency of Investment
  • Marginal Propensity to Consume
  • Marginal Propensity to Import
  • Marginal Propensity to Save
  • Marginal Propensity to Withdraw
  • Marginal Tax Rate
  • Marshall-Lerner Condition
  • Marxian Macroeconomics: An Overview
  • Marxian Macroeconomics: Some Key Relationships
  • Mayer, Thomas.
  • Meade, James E.
  • Meltzer, Allan H.
  • Menu Costs
  • Minsky, Hyman P.
  • Mismatch Unemployment
  • Mitchell, Wesley C.
  • Modigliani, Franco
  • Monetarism
  • Monetary Approach to Exchange Rate Determination
  • Monetary Approach to the Balance of Payments
  • Monetary Base
  • Monetary Policy: Role of
  • Money Illusion
  • Money Supply: Endogenous or Exogenous?
  • Multiplier
  • Multiplier-Accelerator Model
  • Mundell, Robert A.
  • Mundell-Fleming Model
  • Muth, John F.
  • NAIRU
  • National Bureau of Economic Research
  • National Income
  • Natural Rate of Unemployment
  • Neoclassical Growth Model
  • Neoclassical Synthesis
  • Net Capital Flows
  • Net Exports
  • Neutrality of Money
  • New Classical Economics
  • New Economy
  • New Keynesian Economics
  • New Neoclassical Synthesis
  • New Political Macroeconomics
  • Nobel Prize in Economics
  • Nominal Exchange Rate
  • Nominal GDP
  • Nominal Interest Rate
  • Nominal Rigidity
  • North American Free Trade Agreement
  • Okun, Arthur M.
  • Okun's Law
  • Open Economy Trilemma
  • Open Market Operations
  • Optimum Currency Area
  • Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
  • Organization of Petroleum-exporting Countries
  • Outside Lag
  • Outside Money
  • Passive Policy Rule
  • Patinkin, Don
  • Peak
  • Permanent Income Hypothesis
  • Phelps, Edmund S.
  • Phillips Curve
  • Phillips, A. William H.
  • Pigou Effect
  • Pigou, Arthur C.
  • Policy Ineffectiveness Proposition
  • Post Keynesian Economics
  • Potential Output
  • Precautionary Balances
  • Prescott, Edward C.
  • Present Value
  • Price Index
  • Procyclical Variable
  • Productivity Slowdown
  • Public Sector Borrowing Requirement
  • Purchasing Power Parity Theory
  • Quantity Theory of Money
  • Random Walk
  • Rational Expectations
  • Reaganomics
  • Real Balance Effect
  • Real Business Cycle Model
  • Real Exchange Rate
  • Real GDP
  • Real Interest Rate
  • Real Money Balances
  • Real Rigidity
  • Real Wage
  • Recession
  • Recognition Lag
  • Relative Income Hypothesis
  • Replacement Ratio
  • Representative Agent Model
  • Reputation
  • Revaluation
  • Ricardian Equivalence
  • Robinson, Joan
  • Romer, Paul M.
  • Rostow, Walt W.
  • Rough Tuning
  • Royal Economic Society
  • Rules versus Discretion
  • Sacrifice Ratio
  • Samuelson, Paul A.
  • Sargent, Thomas J.
  • Say's Law
  • Schools of Thought in Macroeconomics
  • Schumpeter, Joseph A.
  • Schwartz, Anna J.
  • Search Unemployment
  • Seasonal Unemployment
  • Seigniorage
  • Shackle, George L.S.
  • Shirking Model
  • Shoe Leather Costs
  • Short-run Phillips Curve
  • Slump
  • Solow, Robert M.
  • Speculative Balances
  • Speculative Bubbles
  • Stabilization Policy
  • Stagflation
  • Staggered Wage Contracts
  • Steady State Growth
  • Sterilization
  • Stiglitz, Joseph E.
  • Stone, J. Richard N.
  • Structural Budget Balance
  • Structural Unemployment
  • Summers, Lawrence H.
  • Supply-side Economics
  • Taylor, John B.
  • Taylor's Rule
  • Temin, Peter
  • Term Structure of Interest Rates
  • Terms of Trade
  • Thatcherism
  • Theory and Measurement in Macroeconomics: Role of
  • Time Inconsistency
  • Tinbergen, Jan
  • Tobin, James
  • Tobin's Q
  • Trade Balance
  • Trade Union Density
  • Transactions Balances
  • Transitory Income
  • Trough
  • Unanticipated Inflation
  • Unemployed
  • Unemployment Rate
  • Vector Autoregressions
  • Velocity of Circulation
  • Wallace, Neil
  • Weintraub, Sidney
  • Wicksell, Knut
  • World Bank
  • World Trade Organization
  • Yield Curve.