Inside a Modern Macroeconometric Model
Powell, Alan A.; Murphy, Christopher W.
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Description for Inside a Modern Macroeconometric Model
Hardback. The book gives a detailed account of a contemporary macroeconometric model that is regulary used for policy advising and for forecasting in commerce and industry. Num Pages: 455 pages, 90 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: KCB; KCH; PBWH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 846.
As Ken Wallis (1993) has pOinted out, all macroeconomic forecasters and policy analysts use economic models. That is, they have a way of going from assumptions about macroeconomic policy and the international environment, to a prediction of the likely future state of the economy. Some people do this in their heads. Increasingly though, forecasting and policy analysis is based on a formal, explicit model, represented by a set of mathematical equations and solved by computer. This provides a framework for handling, in a consistent and systematic manner, the ever-increasing amounts of relevant information. Macroeconometric modelling though, is an inexact science. ... Read more
As Ken Wallis (1993) has pOinted out, all macroeconomic forecasters and policy analysts use economic models. That is, they have a way of going from assumptions about macroeconomic policy and the international environment, to a prediction of the likely future state of the economy. Some people do this in their heads. Increasingly though, forecasting and policy analysis is based on a formal, explicit model, represented by a set of mathematical equations and solved by computer. This provides a framework for handling, in a consistent and systematic manner, the ever-increasing amounts of relevant information. Macroeconometric modelling though, is an inexact science. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
455
Condition
New
Number of Pages
455
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9783540631460
SKU
V9783540631460
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