Two common properties of macroeconomic models are non-linearities and dynamics characterised by a non-zero number of unstable eigenvalues. Under these circumstances, a common approach is to make analysis more tractable by linearising the model in the neighbourhood of an appropriate steady-state....

This paper explains why mainstream equilibrium analysis is an unsuitable framework for explaining economic development. The authors present another approach. They apply it in the form of explanations of the two episodes of the post WWII era, golden age and what they refer to as the age of decline.

These lecture notes have been prepared as a preliminary material for the first year graduate students attending the ocre macro course in the Finnish Postgraduate Programme in Economics. The notes should make it easier for students to acquaint themselves with the overlapping generations models in...

This paper discusses the relationship between money supply and production in Tanzania, wit special reference to Macmod, the macroeconomic model for Tanzania. The relationship between money supply and production is seen as being neither direct nor simple in nature: the paper argues that the money...

This paper investigates the effects of introducing imperfect competition in an international business cycle model. We provide some international evidence on markups and analyze the implicactions of increasing returns to scale and monopolistic competition for the effects and the international...

This paper proposes finite-sample procedures for testing the SURE specification in multi-equation regression models, i.e. whether the disturbances in different equations are contemporaneously uncorrelated or not.

Multi-countru models have not been very successful in replicating features of the international transmission of business cycles. Standard models predict cross-country correlations of output and consumption which are respectively too low and loo high. In this paper, we built a multi-country model...

This paper explains why mainstream equilibrium analysis is an unsuitable framework for explaining economic development. The authors present another approach. They apply it in the form of explanations of the two episodes of the post WWII era, golden age and what they refer to as the age of decline.

The Macroeconomic analysis of fiscal policy is usually based on one of two canonical models--the Barro-Ramsey model of infinitely-lived families or the Diamond-Samuelson model of overlapping generations. This paper argues that neither model is satisfactory and suggests an alternative. In the...