Dynamic General Equilibrium Modeling: Computational Methods and Applications - Hardcover

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Burkhard Heer is professor of public economics at the University of Augsburg, Germany. Previously, he was professor of economics at the Universities of Bolzano, Bamberg, and Innsbruck. Burkhard Heer received his Phd in economics from the University of Cologne, Germany, in 1996. He was visiting scholar at various institutions including Georgetown University, Stanford University, Fordham University at New York, University of Quebec at Montreal, University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Federal Reserve Bank at St. Louis, and a summer intern at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C. Burkhard Heer is also affiliated with the Center for Economic Studies (CESifo), Munich. His research interests include public economics and macroeconomics. He also published a Springer textbook on "Dynamic General Equilibrium Modeling" with Alfred Maußner.

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Modern business cycle theory and growth theory uses stochastic dynamic general equilibrium models. In order to solve these models, economists need to use many mathematical tools. This book presents various methods in order to compute the dynamics of general equilibrium models.

In part I, the representative-agent stochastic growth model is solved with the help of value function iteration, linear and linear quadratic approximation methods, parameterised expectations and projection methods. In order to apply these methods, fundamentals from numerical analysis are reviewed in detail.

In part II, the authors discuss methods in order to solve heterogeneous-agent economies. This part of the book also serves as an introduction to the modern theory of distribution economics. Applications include the dynamics of the income distribution over the business cycle or the demographic transition in a large-scale overlapping generations model.

In an accompanying home page to this book, computer codes to all applications can be downloaded.

"This is perhaps the perfect book to learn how to solve quantitative macroeconomics models. Its balance between theory, choice of models, computational insights and use of examples make it an excellent teaching tool. One of the very few books a professional macroeconomist should have: I always learn something important when I consult it."
José-Víctor Ríos Rull, University of Minnesota

"This book not only does an excellent job in explaining the existing tools, but it also teaches the reader on how to write her/his own programs and it provides the reader with the tools to help advance the state of the art of dynamic macroeconomics. "
Wouter J. Den Haan, University of Amsterdam

 "This is an excellent book for economists who do quantitative research. It will be an invaluable teaching tool for graduate macroeconomic courses."
Ayse Imrohoroglu, University of Southern California

 "… provides the reader with exactly the necessary computational tools to solve the dynamic general equilibrium models macroeconomists care about. It is therefore the perfect complement to Stokey, Lucas and Prescott's and Sargent and Ljungqvist's theoretical treatment of modern macroeconomics."
Dirk Krueger, University of Pennsylvania