A History of Macroeconometric Model-building
A History of Macroeconometric Model-building

Author: Ronald G. Bodkin

Publisher: Aldershot, Hants, England : E. Elgar

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 600

ISBN-13:

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This major book presents, for the first time, an authoritative history of developments in macroeconometric modelling since the 1930s. It focuses in particular on the construction of mathematico-statistical models of entire economies, estimated from national accounts and other macroeconomic data. International and comparative in scope, the book contains chapters prepared by specialists from the different countries concerned. This landmark book is indispensable to an understanding of the history and development of large scale econometric models of modern economies.

Estimating How the Macroeconomy Works
Estimating How the Macroeconomy Works

Author: Ray C. FAIR

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2009-06-30

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 0674036638

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Macroeconomics tries to describe and explain the economywide movement of prices, output, and unemployment. The field has been sharply divided among various schools, including Keynesian, monetarist, new classical, and others. It has also been split between theorists and empiricists. Ray Fair is a resolute empiricist, developing and refining methods for testing theories and models. The field cannot advance without the discipline of testing how well the models approximate the data. Using a multicountry econometric model, he examines several important questions, including what causes inflation, how monetary authorities behave and what are their stabilization limits, how large is the wealth effect on aggregate consumption, whether European monetary policy has been too restrictive, and how large are the stabilization costs to Europe of adopting the euro. He finds, among other things, little evidence for the rational expectations hypothesis and for the so-called non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU) hypothesis. He also shows that the U.S. economy in the last half of the 1990s was not a new age economy.

Time Series Analysis and Macroeconometric Modelling
Time Series Analysis and Macroeconometric Modelling

Author: Kenneth Frank Wallis

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 1995-01-01

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13: 9781782541622

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'An excellent reference volume of this author's work, bringing together articles published over a 25 year span on the statistical analysis of economic time series, large scale macroeconomic modelling and the interface between them.' - Aslib Book Guide This major volume of essays by Kenneth F. Wallis features 28 articles published over a quarter of a century on the statistical analysis of economic time series, large-scale macroeconometric modelling, and the interface between them. The first part deals with time-series econometrics and includes significant early contributions to the development of the LSE tradition in time-series econometrics, which is the dominant British tradition and has considerable influence worldwide. Later sections discuss theoretical and practical issues in modelling seasonality and forecasting with applications in both large-scale and small-scale models. The final section summarizes the research programme of the ESRC Macroeconomic Modelling Bureau, a unique comparison project among economy-wide macroeconometric models.

The Econometrics of Macroeconomic Modelling
The Econometrics of Macroeconomic Modelling

Author: Gunnar Bårdsen

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 0199246491

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This work describes how the discipline has adapted to changing demands by adopting new insights from economic theory and by taking advantage of the methodological and conceptual advances within time series econometrics.

Macroeconometric Models for Portfolio Management
Macroeconometric Models for Portfolio Management

Author: Jeremy Kwok

Publisher: Vernon Press

Published: 2021-09-07

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 164889268X

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‘Macroeconometric Models for Portfolio Management’ begins by outlining a portfolio management framework into which macroeconometric models and backtesting investment strategies are integrated. It is followed by a discussion on the theoretical backgrounds of both small and global large macroeconometric models, including data selection, estimation, and applications. Other practical concerns essential to managing a portfolio with decisions driven by macro models are also covered: model validation, forecast combination, and evaluation. The author then focuses on applying these models and their results on managing the portfolio, including making trading rules and asset allocation across different assets and risk management. The book finishes by showing portfolio examples where different investment strategies are used and illustrate how the framework can be applied from the beginning of collecting data, model estimation, and generating forecasts to how to manage portfolios accordingly. This book aims to bridge the gap between academia and practising professionals. Readers will attain a rigorous understanding of the theory and how to apply these models to their portfolios. Therefore, ‘Macroeconometric Models for Portfolio Management’ will be of interest to academics and scholars working in macroeconomics and finance; to industry professionals working in financial economics and asset management; to asset managers and investors who prefer systematic investing over discretionary investing; and to investors who have a strong interest in macroeconomic influences on their portfolio.

Large-scale Macro-econometric Models
Large-scale Macro-econometric Models

Author: Jan Kmenta

Publisher: North-Holland

Published: 1981

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13:

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Forecasting economic variables; Advancement of economic knowledge and the size of macro-econometric models; Construction of macro-econometric models; Evaluation of macro-econometric models.

Comparative Performance of U.S. Econometric Models
Comparative Performance of U.S. Econometric Models

Author: Lawrence Robert Klein

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 0195057724

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Each year, a number of different economic groups in the USA use their own econometric models to forecast what will happen to the economy in the coming year. This volume consists of chapters by distinguished economists comparing the different models now being used.

Specification, Estimation, and Analysis of Macroeconometric Models
Specification, Estimation, and Analysis of Macroeconometric Models

Author: Ray C. Fair

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 504

ISBN-13: 9780674831803

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This book gives a practical, applications-oriented account of the latest techniques for estimating and analyzing large, nonlinear macroeconomic models. Ray Fair demonstrates the application of these techniques in a detailed presentation of several actual models, including his United States model, his multicountry model, Sargent's classical macroeconomic model, autoregressive and vector autoregressive models, and a small (twelve equation) linear structural model. He devotes a good deal of attention to the difficult and often neglected problem of moving from theoretical to econometric models. In addition, he provides an extensive discussion of optimal control techniques and methods for estimating and analyzing rational expectations models. A computer program that handles all the techniques in the book is available from the author, making it possible to use the techniques with little additional programming. The book presents the logic of this program. A smaller program for personal microcomputers for analysis of Fair's United States model is available from Urban Systems Research & Engineering, Inc. Anyone wanting to learn how to use large macroeconomic models, including researchers, graduate students, economic forecasters, and people in business and government both in the United States and abroad, will find this an essential guidebook.

Testing Macroeconometric Models
Testing Macroeconometric Models

Author: Ray C. Fair

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13: 9780674875036

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In this book Ray Fair expounds powerful techniques for estimating and analyzing macroeconometric models. He takes advantage of the remarkable decrease in computational costs that has occurred since the early 1980s by implementing such sophisticated techniques as stochastic simulation. Testing Macroeconometric Models also incorporates the assumption of rational expectations in the estimation, solution, and testing of the models. And it presents the latest versions of Fair's models of the economies of the United States and other countries. After estimating and testing the U.S. model, Fair analyzes its properties, including those relevant to economic policymakers: the optimal monetary policy instrument, the effect of a government spending reduction on the government deficit, whether monetary policy is becoming less effective over time, and the sensitivity of policy effects to the assumption of rational expectations. Ray Fair has conducted research on structural macroeconometric models for more than twenty years. With interest increasing in the area, this book will be an essential reference for macroeconomists.

Understanding Risks and Uncertainties in Energy and Climate Policy
Understanding Risks and Uncertainties in Energy and Climate Policy

Author: Haris Doukas

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-12-10

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 3030031527

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This open access book analyzes and seeks to consolidate the use of robust quantitative tools and qualitative methods for the design and assessment of energy and climate policies. In particular, it examines energy and climate policy performance and associated risks, as well as public acceptance and portfolio analysis in climate policy, and presents methods for evaluating the costs and benefits of flexible policy implementation as well as new framings for business and market actors. In turn, it discusses the development of alternative policy pathways and the identification of optimal switching points, drawing on concrete examples to do so. Lastly, it discusses climate change mitigation policies’ implications for the agricultural, food, building, transportation, service and manufacturing sectors.