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Book SynopsisProvides modern business cycle theory that starts with the view that growth and fluctuations are not distinct phenomena to be studied separately - and that business cycles result from shocks (such as the availability of new technologies), which regularly affect most economies.
Trade ReviewFrontiers of Business Cycle Research collects a number of papers that are standards on my graduate reading lists and some others that soon will be. It adds two lucid introductory papers, one by Thomas Cooley and Edward Prescott and another on computing by Gary Hansen and Prescott. The result is an excellent volume that will be invaluable to macroeconomic researchers and a stimulating introduction for graduate students. ert E. Lucas, Jr., The University of Chicago
Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsList of TablesPrefaceContributors1Economic Growth and Business Cycles12Recursive Methods for Computing Equilibria of Business Cycle Models393Computing Equilibria of Nonoptimal Economies654Models with Heterogeneous Agents985Business Cycles and Aggregate Labor Market Fluctuations1266Household Production in Real Business Cycle Theory1577Money and the Business Cycle1758Non-Walrasian Economies2179Dynamic General Equilibrium Models with Imperfectly Competitive Product Markets24310Asset Pricing Implications of Equilibrium Business Cycle Models29411International Business Cycles: Theory and Evidence33112Policy Analysis in Business Cycle Models357Bibliography393Author Index413Subject Index417
