Peter Birch Sørensen and Hans Jørgen Whitta-Jacobsen, Introducing Advanced Macroeconomics: Growth and Business Cycles, McGraw-Hill, 2005

CONTENTS
Preface (click)

Chapter 1. Macroeconomics for the Long Run and for the Short Run


BOOK ONE. The Long Run: Economic Growth, Long Run Unemployment, and Structural Economic Policy


PART I. Basic Theory and Empirics about Prosperity and Growth

Chapter 2. Some Facts about Prosperity and Growth

Chapter 3. Capital Accumulation and Growth: The Basic Solow Model

Chapter 4. Wealth Accumulation and Capital Mobility: The Solow Model for a Small Open economy


PART II. Exogenous Growth

Chapter 5. Technological Progress and Growth: The General Solow Model

Chapter 6. Education and Growth: The Solow Model with Human Capital

Chapter 7. Limits to Growth? A Solow Model with Scarce Natural Resources


PART III. Endogenous Growth

Chapter 8. Productive Externalities and Endogenous Growth

Chapter 9. R&D-Based Endogenous Growth: Macroeconomic Modelling

Chapter 10. R&D-Based Endogenous Growth: Micro Foundations


PART IV. Structural Unemployment

Chapter 11. Some Facts and Introductory Theory about Unemployment

Chapter 12. Efficiency Wages and Unemployment

Chapter 13. Trade Unions and Unemployment


Appendix. Table A: Some Growth Relevant Country Data


 

 

 

BOOK TWO. The Short Run: Economic Fluctuations, Short Run Unemployment, and Stabilisation Policy


Chapter 14. Some Facts About Business Cycles


PART V. The Building Blocks for the Short Run Model

Chapter 15. Investment and Asset Prices

Chapter 16. Consumption, Income and Wealth

Chapter 17. Monetary Policy and Aggregate Demand

Chapter 18. Inflation, Unemployment, and Aggregate Supply


PART VI. The Short Run Model for the Closed Economy

Chapter 19. Explaining Business Cycles: Aggregate Supply and Aggregate Demand in Action

Chapter 20. Stabilization Policy: Why and How

Chapter 21. Stabilization Policy with Rational Expectations

Chapter 22. The Limits to Stabilization Policy: Political Economy, Uncertainty and Time Lags


PART VII. The Short Run Model for the Open Economy

Chapter 23. Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply in the Open Economy

Chapter 24. The Open Economy with Fixed Exchange Rates

Chapter 25. The Open Economy with Flexible Exchange Rates

Chapter 26. The Choice of Exchange Rate Regime and the Theory of Optimum Currency Areas


Appendix. Basic Regression Analysis