This short, concrete, and to-the-point book guides students through this vast field of conflicting opinions. The book begins from the premise that students benefit most from seeing a balanced treatment of all available views. For instance, this book provides coverage of both ad hoc and optimizing models. It also explores divisions such as flexible price versus sticky price models, rationality versus irrationality, and calibration versus statistical inference. By giving consideration to each of these 'mini debates;, this book shows how each approach has its good and bad points.

About the Author

Nelson C. Mark is Professor of Economics at Ohio State University. He has been widely published in journals such as the Economic Journal, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of International Economics, American Economic Review, Journal of Finance, International Economic Review, Journal of Financial Economics, and Journal of Monetary Economics. He is presently editor of Journal of Money, Credit and Banking.

Reviews
"The author should be congratulated on producing a first-class graduate text. The book has a breathtaking scope, spanning traditional monetary approaches to general equilibrium models under both perfect and imperfect competition in a clear, rigorous and lucid style. It will be of enormous value to postgraduate students in international macroeconomics." Andrew Snell, University of Edinburgh



Book Information
ISBN 9780631222880
Author Nelson C. Mark
Format Paperback
Page Count 296
Imprint Wiley-Blackwell
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Weight(grams) 535g
Dimensions(mm) 246mm * 173mm * 16mm