Der vorliegende Band behandelt einige Problembereiche in der Anwendung der stochastischen Kontrolltheorie in Verbindung mit makroökonometrischen Modellen: - die Bedeutung während des Planungszeitraums zusätzlich anfallender Informationen für die Aufstellung optimaler Entscheidungsregeln, -...

In this paper we discuss a number of challenges for structural macroeconomic models in the light of the Great Recession and its aftermath. It shows that a benchmark DSGE model that shares many features with models currently used by central banks and large international institutions has...

This paper discusses a longstanding debate between two empirical approaches to macroeconomics: the econometrics program represented by Lawrence R. Klein, and the statistical economics program represented by Milton Friedman. I argue that the differences between these two approaches do not consist...