Specification, Estimation and Analysis of Macroeconometric Models - Hardcover

Fair, Rc

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674831802 ISBN 13: 9780674831803

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1984

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Ray C. Fair is Professor of Economics at Yale University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674831802
• ISBN 13: 9780674831803
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384