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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Trade Review"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 EdinburghTable of ContentsPreface.
1. Some Institutional Background:.
International Financial Markets.
National Accounting Relations.
The Central Bank's Balance Sheet.
2. Some Useful Time-Series Methods:.
Unrestricted Vector Autoregressions.
The Generalized Method of Moments.
The Simulated Method of Moments.
Unit Roots.
Panel Unit-Root Tests.
Cointegration.
Filtering.
3. The Monetary Model:.
Purchasing-Power Parity.
The Monetary Model of the Balance of Payments.
The Monetary Model under Flexible Exchange Rates.
Fundamentals and Exchange Rate Volatility.
Testing Monetary Model Predictions.
Problems.
4. The Lucas Model:.
The Barter Economy.
The One-Money Monetary Economy.
The Two-Money Monetary Economy.
An Introduction to the Calibration Method.
Calibrating the Lucas Model.
Appendix: Markov Chains.
Problems.
5. International Real Business Cycles:.
Calibrating the One-Sector Growth Model.
Calibrating a Two-Country Model.
6. Foreign Exchange Market Efficiency:.
Deviations from UIP.
Rational Risk Premia.
Testing Euler Equations.
Apparent Violations of Rationality.
The "Peso Problem".
Noise Traders.
Problems.
7. The Real Exchange Rate:.
Some Preliminary Issues.
Deviations from the "Law-of-One-Price".
Long-Run Determinants of the Real Exchange Rate.
Long-Run Analyses of Real Exchange Rates.
Problem.
8. The Mundell–Fleming Model:.
A Static Mundell–Fleming Model.
Dornbusch's Dynamic Mundell–Fleming Model.
A Stochastic Mundell–Fleming Model.
VAR Analysis of Mundell–Fleming.
Appendix: Solving the Dornbusch Model.
Problems.
9. The New International Macroeconomics:.
The Redux Model.
Pricing to market.
Problems.
10. Target-Zone Models:.
Fundamentals of Stochastic Calculus.
The Continuous-Time Monetary Model.
Infinitesimal Marginal Intervention.
Discrete Intervention.
Eventual Collapse.
Imperfect Target-Zone Credibility.
11. Balance-of-Payments Crises:.
A First-Generation Model.
A Second-Generation Model.
Bibliography.
Author Index.
Subject Index.
