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Autore: | Hubbard R. Glenn |
Titolo: | Macroeconomics / / R. Glenn Hubbard, Anthony Patrick O'Brien, Matthew Rafferty ; international editions contributions by Paramita Mukherjee, Mahuya Chakrabarti |
Pubblicazione: | Boston : , : Pearson, , [2014] |
©2014 | |
Edizione: | Second edition, International edition. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (679 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), color map |
Disciplina: | 339 |
Soggetto topico: | Macroeconomics |
Persona (resp. second.): | O'BrienAnthony Patrick |
RaffertyMatthew | |
MukherjeeParamita | |
ChakrabartiMahuya | |
Note generali: | Includes index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Chapter 1 The Long and Short of -- When You Enter the Job Market can Matter a Lot -- 1.1 What Macroeconomics Is About -- Macroeconomics in the Short Run and in the Long Run -- Long-Run Growth in the United States -- Some Countries Have Not Experienced Significant Long-Run Growth -- Aging Populations Pose a Challenge to Governments Around the World -- Unemployment in the United States -- Unemployment Rates Differ Across Developed Countries -- Inflation Rates Fluctuate Over Time and Across Countries -- Economic Policy Can Help Stabilize the Economy -- International Factors Have Become Increasingly Important in Explaining Macroeconomic Events -- 1.2 How Economists Think About Macroeconomics -- What Is the Best Way to Analyze Macroeconomic Issues? -- Macroeconomic Models -- Solved Problem 1.2: Do Rising Imports Lead to a Permanent Reduction in U.S. Employment? -- Assumptions, Endogenous Variables, and Exogenous Variablesin Economic Models -- Forming and Testing Hypotheses in Economic Models -- Making the Connection: Why Should the United States Worry About the "Euro Crisis"? -- 1.3 Key Issues and Questions of Macroeconomics -- Key Terms and Problems -- Key Terms and Concepts, Review Questions -- Problems and Applications, Data Exercise -- Chapter 2 Measuring the Macroeconomy -- How Do We Know When We Are in a Recession? -- Key Issue and Question -- 2.1 GDP: Measuring Total Production and Total Income -- How the Government Calculates GDP -- Production and Income -- The Circular Flow of Income -- An Example of Measuring GDP -- National Income Identities and the Components of GDP -- The Relationship Between GDP and GNP -- GDP Versus GDI -- GDP and National Income -- 2.2 Real GDP, Nominal GDP, and the GDP Deflator -- Solved Problem 2.2A: Calculating Real GDP -- Price Indexes and the GDP Deflator. |
Solved Problem 2.2B: Calculating the Inflation Rate -- The Chain-Weighted Measure of Real GDP -- Making the Connection: Trying to Hit a Moving Target: Forecasting with "Real-Time Data" -- Comparing GDP Across Countries -- Making the Connection: The Incredible Shrinking Chinese Economy -- 2.3 Inflation Rates and Interest Rates -- The Consumer Price Index -- Making the Connection: Does the CPI Provide a Good Measure of Inflation for a Family with College Students? -- How Accurate Is the CPI? -- The Way the Federal Reserve Measures Inflation -- Interest Rates -- 2.4 Measuring Employment and Unemployment -- Answering the Key Question -- Key Terms and Problems -- Key Terms and Concepts, Review Questions -- Problems and Applications, Data Exercise -- Chapter 3 The U.S. Financial System -- The Wonderful World of Credit -- Key Issue and Question -- 3.1 An Overview of the Financial System -- Financial Markets and Financial Intermediaries -- Making the Connection: The Controversial World of Subprime Lending -- Making the Connection: Investing in the Worldwide Stock Market -- Banking and Securitization -- Asymmetric Information and Principal-Agent Problems in Financial Markets -- 3.2 Financial Crises, Government Policy, and the Financial System -- Financial Intermediaries and Leverage -- Bank Panics -- Government Policies to Deal with Bank Panics -- The Financial Crisis of 2007-2009 -- The Mortgage Market and the Subprime Lending Disaster -- Runs on the Shadow Banking System -- Government Policies to Deal with the Financial Crisis of 2007-2009 -- Making the Connection: Fed Policy During Panics, Then and Now: The Collapse of the Bank of United States in 1930 and the Collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 -- 3.3 The Money Market and the Risk Structure and Term Structure of Interest Rates -- The Demand and Supply of Money -- Shifts in the Money Demand Curve. | |
Equilibrium in the Money Market -- Calculating Bond Interest Rates and the Concept of Present Value -- Present Value and the Prices of Stocks and Bonds -- Solved Problem 3.3: Interest Rates and Treasury Bond Prices -- The Economy's Many Interest Rates -- Answering the Key Question -- Appendix: More on the Term Structure of Interest Rates -- Key Terms and Problems -- Key Terms and Concepts, Review Questions -- Problems and Applications, Data Exercise -- Chapter 4 The Global Financial System -- Did U.S. Monetary Policy Slow Brazil's Growth? -- Key Issue and Question -- 4.1 The Balance of Payments -- The Current Account -- The Financial Account -- The Capital Account -- 4.2 Exchange Rates and Exchange Rate Policy -- Nominal Exchange Rates -- Real Exchange Rates -- The Foreign-Exchange Market -- Exchange Rate Policy -- Policy Choices and the Current Exchange Rate Systems -- Making the Connection: Greece Experiences a "Bank Jog" -- 4.3 What Factors Determine Exchange Rates? -- Purchasing Power Parity -- Why Purchasing Power Parity Doesn't Hold Exactly -- The Interest Parity Condition -- Solved Problem 4.3: Making a Financial Killing by Buying Brazilian Bonds? -- Making the Connection: Brazilian Firms Grapple with an Unstable Exchange Rate -- 4.4 The Loanable Funds Model and the International Capital Market -- Saving and Supply in the Loanable Funds Market -- Investment and the Demand for Loanable Funds -- Explaining Movements in Saving, Investment, and the Real Interest Rate -- The International Capital Market and the Interest Rate -- Small Open Economy -- Large Open Economy -- Answering the Key Question -- Key Terms and Problems -- Key Terms and Concepts, Review Questions -- Problems and Applications, Data Exercise -- Chapter 5 The Standard of Living over Time and Across Countries -- Who Is Number One? -- Key Issue and Question. | |
5.1 The Aggregate Production Function -- The Cobb-Douglas Production Function -- The Demand for Labor and the Demand for Capital -- Changes in Capital, Labor, and Total Factor Productivity -- Making the Connection: Foreign Direct Investment Increases Real GDP in China -- 5.2 A Model of Real GDP in the Long Run -- The Markets for Capital and Labor -- Combining the Factor Markets with the Aggregate Production Function -- The Division of Total Income -- Solved Problem 5.2: Calculating the Marginal Product of Labor and the Marginal Product of Capital -- What Determines Levels of Real GDP Across Countries? -- 5.3 Why Real GDP per Worker Varies Among Countries -- The per Worker Production Function -- What Determines Labor Productivity? -- Macro Data: How Well do International Capital Markets Allocate Capital? -- What Determines Real GDP per Capita? -- 5.4 Total Factor Productivity and Labor Productivity -- What Explains Total Factor Productivity? -- Making the Connection: Comparing Research and Development Spending and Labor Productivity in China and the United States -- Making the Connection: How Important Were the Chinese Economic Reforms of 1978? -- Answering the Key Question -- Key Terms and Problems -- Key Terms and Concepts, Review Questions -- Problems and Applications, Data Exercise -- Chapter 6 Long-Run Economic Growth -- The Surprising Economic Rise of India -- Key Issue and Question -- 6.1 The Solow Growth Model -- Capital Accumulation -- The Steady State -- Transition to the Steady State -- Saving Rates and Growth Rates -- Macro Data: Do High Rates of Saving and Investment Lead to High Levels of Income? -- 6.2 Labor Force Growth and the Solow Growth Model -- Labor Force Growth and the Steady State -- The Effect of an Increase in the Labor Force Growth Rate. | |
Solved Problem 6.2: The Effect of a Decrease in the Labor Force Growth Rate on Real GDP per Worker -- 6.3 Technological Change and the Solow Growth Model -- Technological Change -- Technological Change and the Steady State -- Steady-State Growth Rates -- 6.4 Balanced Growth, Convergence, and Long-Run Equilibrium -- Convergence to the Balanced Growth Path -- Making the Connection: Will China's Standard of Living Ever Exceed that of the United States? -- Do All Countries Converge to the Same Steady State? -- 6.5 Endogenous Growth Theory -- AK Growth Models: Reconsidering Diminishing Returns -- Two-Sector Growth Model: The Production of Knowledge -- Policies to Promote Economic Growth -- Making the Connection: What Explains Recent Economic Growth in India? -- Making the Connection: Should the Federal Government Invest in Green Energy? -- Answering the Key Question -- Key Terms and Problems -- Key Terms and Concepts, Review Questions -- Problems and Applications, Data Exercise -- Appendix: Growth Accounting -- The Growth Accounting Equation for Real GDP -- Growth Accounting for the United States -- Total Factor Productivity as the Ultimate Source of Growth -- Chapter 7 Money and Inflation -- What Can You Buy With 100 Trillion? -- Key Issue and Question -- 7.1 What Is Money, and Why Do We Need It? -- The Functions of Money -- Commodity Money Versus Fiat Money -- Making the Connection: When Money Is No Longer Money: Hyperinflation in Zimbabwe -- How Is Money Measured? -- Which Measure of the Money Supply Should We Use? -- 7.2 The Federal Reserve and the Money Supply -- How the Fed Changes the Monetary Base -- The Process of Money Creation -- 7.3 The Quantity Theory of Money and Inflation -- The Quantity Theory of Money -- The Quantity Theory Explanation of Inflation. | |
Making the Connection Is the Inflation Rate Around the World Going to Increase in the Near Future?. | |
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Titolo autorizzato: | Macroeconomics |
ISBN: | 1-292-00131-3 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910151593703321 |
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