Business cycle economics : understanding recessions and depressions from boom to bust / Todd A. Knoop.
This analysis presents a comprehensive overview of global economics, assessing older theories alongside of new ways of thinking to reveal the empirical methods needed to evaluate, forecast, and prevent future crises.
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| Online Access: | Electronic book from EBSCO |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2015. |
| Series: | Gale Virtual Reference Library.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. The facts of business cycles
- one. Why study business cycles?
- two. Describing business cycles part II. Macroeconomic theories of business cycles
- three. Early business cycle theories
- four. Keynes's and Keynesian theory
- five. Austrian economics
- six. The monetarist model
- seven. The rational expectations model
- eight. Real business cycle models
- nine. New Keynesian models
- part III. Financial instability and forecasting
- ten. Models of credit and financial instability
- eleven. Beliefs, behavior, bubbles, and banking crises
- twelve. Macroeconomic forecasting
- part IV. Business cycles in the United States
- thirteen. The Great Depression
- fourteen. Postwar business cycles
- part V. Modern international recessions and depressions
- fifteen. The East Asian crisis and the IMF
- sixteen. The Great Recession in Japan
- seventeen. Soverign debt crises and euro-zone
- eighteen. The global financial crisis of 2008
- nineteen. Conclusions
- what we know and do not know about business cycles.