PREFACE
         PART ONE - INTRODUCTION 1
         CHAPTER 1 - A TOUR OF THE WORLD
         1 -1 WHAT IS MACROECONOMICS?
         The Simplifications of Macroeconomics
         1 Why Macroeconomists Sometimes
         Disagree
         1-2 LOOKING AT THE WORLD
         The United States ?The European
         Union ?Japan 11
         1-3 LOOKINGAHEAD
         CHAPTER 2 - A TOUR OF THE BOOK
         2-1 AGGREGATE OUTPUT
         GDP, Value Added, and Income ? Nominal and Real GDP
         2-2 THE OTHER MAJOR MACROECONOMIC
         VARIABLES
         The Unemployment Rate ?The
         Inflation Rate ?Budget Deficits and
         Trade Deficits
         2-3 A ROAD MAP
         PART TWO - THE BASICS
         CHAPTER 3 - TME GOODS MARKET
         3-1 THE COMPOSITION OF GDP
         3-2 THE DETERMINATION OF DEMAND
         Consumption (C) ?Investment (I)
         ?Government Spending (G)
         3-3 THE DETERMINATION OF
         EQUILIBRIUM OUTPUT
         The Algebra ?A Graph ?In
         Words
         3-4 INVESTMENT EQUALS SAVING: AN
         ALTERNATIVE WAY OF THINKING ABOUT
         GOODS-MARKET EQUILIBRIUM
         3-5 THE PARADOX OF SAVING
         3-6 IS THE GOVERNMENT REALLY
         OMNIPOTENT? A WARNING
         CHAPTER 4 - THE GOODS MARKET:
         DYNAMICS
         4-1 PRODUCTION, SALES, AND
         INVENTORY INVESTMENT
         Dividing Time ?Production and Sales
         ?Equilibrium in the Goods Market
         Revisited ?The Dynamic Effects of
         an Increase in Government Spending
         ?Using a Graph
         4-2 GOING EMPIRICAL
         Estimating the Marginal Propensity to
         Consume ?Allowing for Lags ? Correlation Versus Causality
         4-3 SlMULATING THE ESTIMATED
         MODEL
         A-A CONCLUSIONS
         CHAPTER 5 - FlNANCIAL MARKETS
         5-1 MONEY VERSUS BONDS
         The Basic Choice ?The Demand for
         Money ?The Demand for Bonds
         ?Money Demand and the Interest Rate:
         The Evidence
         5-2 THE DETERMINATION OF THE
         INTEREST RATE: 1
         Money Demand, Money Supply, and the
         Equilibrium Interest Rate ?Monetary
         Policy and Open Market Operations ? Monetary Policy and the Interest Rate
         5-3 THE DETERMINATION OF THE
         INTEREST RATE: 11
         The Role of Banks ?The Determination
         of the Money Supply ?The Effects of
         an Open Market Operation ? Conclusions: Money Demand and Money
         Supply
         CHAPTER 6 - GOODS AND FlNANCIAL
         MARKETS: THE IS-LM
         6-1 THE GOODS MARKET AND THE IS
         RELATION
         Investment, Sales, and the Interest Rate
         ?The IS Curve ?Shifts in the IS
         Curve
         6-2 FlNANCIAL MARKETS AND THE LM
         RELATION
         Real Money, Real Income, and the Interest
         Rate ?The LM Curve ?Shifts in
         the LM Curve
         6-3 THE IS-LM MODEL: EXERCISES
         Fiscal Policy, Activity, and the Interest Rate
         ?Mohetary Policy, Activity, and the
         Interest Rate ?Using a Policy Mix
         6-4 ADDING DYNAMICS
         6-5 DOES THE IS-LM MODEL ACTUALLY
         CAPTURE WHAT HAPPENS IN THE
         ECONOMY?
         PART THREE - EXPECTATIONS
         CHAPTER 7 - EXPECTATIONS: THE BASIC
         TOOLS
         7-1 NOMINAL VERSUS REAL INTEREST
         RATES
         Computing the Real Interest Rate ? Nominal and Rfeal Interest Rates in the
         United States Since 1978
         7-2 EXPECTED PRESENT DlSCOUNTED
         VALUES
         Computing Expected Present Discounted
         Values ?Applications ?Nominal
         Versus Real Interest Rates, and Present
         Values
         7-3 NOMINAL AND REAL INTEREST
         RATES, AND THE IS-LM MODEL
         APPENDIX: DERIVING THE PRESENT
         DlSCOUNTED VALUE USING REAL OR
         NOMINAL INTEREST RATES
         CHAPTER 8 - EXPECTATIONS,
         CONSUMPTION, AND INVESTMENT
         8-1 CONSUMPTION
         The Very Foresighted Consumer ?An
         Example ?Toward a More Realistic
         Description ?Putting Things
         Together: Current Income, Expectations,
         and Consumption
         8-2 INVESTMENT
         Investment and Expectations ofProfit
         ?A Convenient Special Case ? Current Versus Expected Profit ? Profit and Sales
         8-3 THE VOLATILITY OF CONSUMPTION
         AND INVESTMENT
         APPENDIX: DERIVATION OF THE EXPECTED
         PRESENT VALUE OF PROFITS WHEN
         FUTURE PROFITS AND INTEREST
         RATES ARE EXPECTED TO BE THE
         SAME AS TODAY
         CHAPTER 9 - FlNANCIAL MARKETS AND
         EXPECTATIONS
         9-1 BONDPRICESANDTHEYIELDCURVE
         Bond Prices as Present Values ? Arbitrage and Bond Prices ?From
         Bond Prices to Bond Yields ?The
         Yield Curve and Economic Activity
         9-2 THE STOCK MARKET AND
         MOVEMENTS IN STOCK PRICES
         Stock Prices as Present Values ?The
         Stock Market and Economic Activity
         9-3 BUBBLES, FADS, AND STOCK PRICES
         APPENDIX: ARBITRAGEAND STOCK PRICES
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         CHAPTER 10- EXPECTATIONS, POLICY,
         AND OUTPUT
         10-1 EXPECTATIONS AND DECISIONS:
         TAKING STOCK
         Expectations and the IS Relation ? The LM Relation Revisited
         10-2 A FlRST EXERCISE: MONETARY
         POLICY, EXPECTATIONS, AND OUTPUT
         10-3 DEFICIT REDUCTION, EXPECTATIONS,
         AND ECONOMIC ACTIVITY
         10-4 THE CLINTON DEFICIT REDUCTION
         PACKAGE
         The Design of a Program ?The
         Outcome
         10-5 ON TO THE OPEN ECONOMY
         PART FOUR - OPENNESS
         CHAPTER 1 1 - OPENNESS IN GOODS AND
         FlNANCIAL MARKETS
         11-1 OPENNESS IN GOODS MARKETS
         Nominal Exchange Rates ?Real
         Exchange Rates
         11-2 OPENNESS IN FlNANCIAL MARKETS
         The Balance of Payments ?The
         Choice Between Domestic and Foreign
         Assets
         11-3 CONCLUSIONS AND A LOOK AHEAD
         CHAPTER 12 - THE GOODS MARKET IN AN
         OPEN ECONOMY
         12-1 THE IS RELATION IN THE OPEN
         ECONOMY
         The Demand for Domestic Goods ? The Determinants of the Demand for
         Domestic Goods
         12-2 EQUILIBRIUM OUTPUT AND THE
         TRADE BALANCE
         12-3 INCREASES IN DEMAND, DOMESTIC
         OR FOREIGN
         Increases in Government Spending ? Increases in Foreign Demand ? Games That Countries Play
         12-4 DEPRECIATION, THE TRADE BALANCE,
         AND OUTPUT
         Depreciation and the Trade Balance: The
         Marshall-Lerner Condition ?The
         Effects of a Depreciation ? Combining Exchange-Rate and Fiscal
         Policies
         12-5 LOOKING AT DYNAMICS: THE
         J-CURVE
         12-6 SAVING,INVESTMENT, AND TRADE
         DEFICITS
         APPENDIX: DERIVATION OF THE MARSHALL-
         LERNER CONDITION
         CHAPTER 13 - OUTPLJT, THE INTEREST
         RATE, AND THE EXCHANGE RATE
         13-1 EQUILIBRIUM IN THE GOODS MARKET
         13-2 EQUILIBRIUM IN FlNANCIAL
         MARKETS
         Money Versus Bonds ?Domestic
         Bonds Versus Foreign Bonds
         13-3 PUTTING GOODS AND FlNANCIAL
         MARKETS TOGETHER
         13-4 THE EFFECTS OF POLICY IN AN OPEN
         ECONOMY
         The Effects of Fiscal Policy in an Open
         Economy ?The Effects of Monetary
         Policy in an Open Economy
         13-5 FlXED EXCHANGE RATES
         Pegs, Crawling Pegs, Bands, and the EMS
         ?Pegging the Exchange Rate, and
         Monetary Control ?Fiscal Policy
         Under Fixed Exchange Rates
         APPENDIX: FlXED EXCHANGE RATES,
         INTEREST RATES, AND CAPITAL
         MOBILITY
         CHAPTER 14 - EXPECTATIONS,
         EXCHANGE-RATE MOVEMENTS, AND
         EXCHANGE-RATE CRISES
         14-1 THE DETERMINANTS OF THE REAL
         EXCHANGE RATE
         Real Interest Rates and the Real Exchange
         Rate ?Long-Term Real Interest Rates
         and the Real Exchange Rate ?The
         Real Exchange Rate, Trade, and Interest
         Rate Differentials
         14-2 THE DANCE OF THE DOLLAR IN THE
         1980s
         14-3 THE APPRECIATION OF THE YEN IN
         THE 1990s
         14-4 EXCHANGE RATES, MONETARY
         POLICY, AND NEWS
         Monetary Policy, Interest Rates, and
         Exchange Rates Policy and
         Expectations
         14-5 FlXED EXCHANGE RATES AND
         EXCHANGE-RATE CRISES
         Crises in the European Monetary System
         APPENDIX: FROM NOMINAL TO REAL
         INTEREST PARITY
         PART FIVE - THE SUPPLY SIDE
         CHAPTER 15 - THE LABOR MARKET
         15-1 A TOUR OF THE LABOR MARKET
         The Large Flows of Workers ? Differences Across Workers ? Movements in Unemployment
         15-2 WAGE DETERMINATION
         Bargaining ?Efficiency Wages ? Wages and Unemployment
         15-3 PRICE DETERMINATION
         15-4 THE NATURAL RATE OF
         UNEMPLOYMENT
         The Wage-Setting Relation ?The
         Price-Setting Relation ?Equilibrium
         Real Wages, Employment, and
         Unemployment ?From
         Unemployment to Output
         15-5 WHERE WE GO FROM HERE
         APPENDTX: WAGE- AND PRICE-SETTING
         RELATIONS VERSUS LABOR SUPPLY
         AND LABOR DEMAND
         CHAPTER 16 - PLITTING ALL MARKETS
         TOGETHER
         16-1
         AGGREGATE SUPPLY
         The Derivation of the Aggregate Supply
         Relation ?The Aggregate Supply
         Relation and the Natural Level of Output
         16-2
         16-3
         16-4
         AGGREGATE DEMAND
         MOVEMENTS IN OUTPUT AND PRICES
         THE EFFECTS OF A MONETARY
         EXPANSION
         The Dynamics of Adjustment ? Looking Behind the Scene ?The
         Neutrality of Money
         16-5 A DECREASE IN THE BUIDGET DEFICIT
         The Budget Deficit, Output, and the
         Interest Rate ?Budget Deficits,
         Output, and Investment
         16-6 MOVEMENTS IN THE PRICE OF OlL
         Effects on the Natural Rate of
         Unemployment ?The Dynarnics of
         Adjustment
         16-7 CONCLUSIONS
         The Short Run Versus the Long Run
         ?Shocks and Propagation Mechanisms
         ?Output, Unemployment, and
         Inflation
         CHAPTER 17 - THE PHILLIPS CURVE
         17-1 INFLATION, EXPECTED INFLATION,
         AND UNEMPLOYMENT
         17-2 THE PHILLIPS CURVE
         The Early Incarnation ?Mutations
         ?Back to the Natural Rate of
         Unemployment
         17-3 A SUMMARY AND MANY WARNINGS
         The Inflation Process and the Phillips Curve
         ?Differences in the Natural Rate
         Across Countries ?Variations in Ihe
         Natural Rate over Time ?The Limits
         of Our Understanding
         APPENOIX: FROM THE. AGGREGATE SUPPLY
         RELATION TO THE PHILLIPS CURVE
         CHAPTER 18- INFLATION, DlSINFLATION,
         AND UNEMPLOYMENT
         18-1 INFLATION, OUTPUT, AND
         UNEMPLOYMENT
         The Phillips Curve: Unemployment and the
         Change in Inflation ?Okun's Law:
         Output Growth and Changes in
         Unemployment ?The Aggregate
         Demand Relation: Output Growth, Money
         Growth, and Inflation
         18-2 THELONGRUN
         18-3 DlSINFLATION: THE ISSUES
         A First Pass ?Expectations and
         Credibility: The Lucas Critique ? Nominal Rigidities and Contracts
         18-4 THE U.S. DISINFLATION, 1979-1985
         CHAPTER 19 - INFLATION, INTEREST
         RATES, AND EXCHANGE RATES
         19-1 MONEY GROWTH, INFLATION, AND
         INTEREST RATES
         Real and Nominal Interest Rates ? The Short Run ?The Long Run
         ?Dynamics ?Evidence on the Fisher
         Hypothesis
         19-2 FlXED EXCHANGE RATES AND
         DEVALLJATIONS
         Aggregate Demand Under Fixed Exchange
         Rates ?Aggregate Demand and
         Aggregate Supply ?What
         Devaluations Can Do ?Whether and
         When to Devalue
         PART SIX - PATHOLOGIES
         CHAPTER 20 - PATHOLOGIES 1: HlGH
         U N EM PLOYMENT
         20-1 THEGREAT DEPRESSION
         The Fall in Spending ?The
         Contraction in Nominal Money ?The
         Adverse Eftects of Deflation ?Thc
         Recovery
         20-2 UNEMPLOYMENT IN EUROPE
         Labor Market Rigidities ?Hysteresis
         20-3 CONCLUSIONS
         CHAPTER 21 - PATHOLOGIES 11: HlGH
         INFLATION
         21-1 BUDGET DEFICITS AND MONEY
         CREATION
         21-2 INFLATION AND REAL MONEY
         BALANCES
         21-3 DEFICITS, SEIGNORAGE, AND
         INFLATION
         The Case of Constant Money Growth ? Dynamics and Increasing Inflation ? Hyperinflations and Economic Activity
         21-4 HOW Do HYPERINFLATIONS END?
         The Elements of a Stabilization Program
         ?Can Stabilization Programs Fail?
         ?The Costs of Stabilization
         21-5 CONCLUSIONS
         PART SEVEN - THE LONG RUN
         CHAPTER 22 - THK FACTS OF GROWTH
         22-1 GROWTH IN RlCH COUNTRIES SlNCE
         1950 ?
         22-2 A BROADER LOOK ACROSS TlME AND
         SPACE
         Looking Across Two Millennia ? Looking Across Countries
         22-3 THINKING ABOUT GROWTH: A
         PRIMER
         The Aggregate Production Function ? The Sources of Growth
         CHAPTER 23 - SAVING, CAPITAL
         ACCUMULATION, AND OUTPUT
         23-1 INTERACTIONS BETWEEN OUTPUT
         AND CAPITAL
         The Effects of Capital on Output ? The Effects of Output on Capital
         Accumulation
         23-2 IMPLICATIONS OF ALTERNATIVE
         SAVING RATES
         Dynamics of Capital and Output ? Steady-State Capital and Output ? The Saving Rate and Output ?The
         Saving Rate and the Golden Rule
         23-3 GETTING A SENSE OF MAGNITUDES
         23-4 PHYSICAL VERSUS HUMAN CAPITAL
         Extending the Production Function ? Human Capital, Physical Capital, and
         Output ?Endogenous Growth
         CHAPTER 24 - TECHNOLOGICAL
         PROGRESS AND GROWTH
         24-1 THE DETERMINANTS OF
         TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS
         R&D Spending Decisions ?R&D,
         Ideas, and Patent Laws ?R&D
         Spending and Technological Progress
         2-4-2 TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS AND THE
         PRODUCTION FUNCTION
         24-3 TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS AND THE
         RATE OF GROWTH
         Interactions Between Output and Capital
         ?Dynamics of Capital and Output
         ?The Effects of the Saving Rate
         24-4 THE FACTS OF GROWTH REVISITED
         Capital Accumulation Versus Technological
         Progress ?Why Has Technological
         Progress Slowed Since the Mid-1970s?
         24-5 EPILOGUE: THE SECRETS OF GROWTH
         APPENDIX: CONSTRUCTING A MEASURE OF
         TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS
         PART EIGHT - CHANGE AND
         TRANSITION 509
         CHAPTER 25 - TECHNOLOGICAL
         PROGRESS, UNEMPLOYMENT, AND
         WAGES
         25-1 PRODUCTIVITY, OUTPUT, AND
         UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE SHORT RUN
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         Technological Progress, Aggregate Supply,
         and Aggregate Demand ?The
         Empirical Evidence
         25-2 PRODUCTIVITY AND THE NATURAL
         RATE OF UNEMPLOYMENT
         Price and Wage Setting Revisited ? The Natural Rate of Unemployment ? The Empirical Evidence
         25-3 TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS AND
         DlSTRIBUTION EFFECTS
         The Increase in Wage Inequality ?The
         Causes of Increased Wage Inequality
         CHAPTER 26 - TRANSITION IN EASTERN
         KUROPE
         26-1 AN OVERVIEW
         26-2 ECONOMIC GROWTH UNDER
         CENTRAL PLANNING
         26-3 EXPLAINING THE DECLINE IN
         OUTPUT
         Measurement, Stabilization, and Structural
         Change ?Shifts in Relative Demand
         and Aggregate Employment ? Transition and the Decrease in
         Employment
         26-4 SCENARIOS FOR THE FUTURE
         A Scenario of Sustained Transition and
         Growth ?The Dangers Ahead
         PART NINE - POLICY
         CHAPTER 27 - SHOULD POLICY MAKERS
         BE RESTRAINED?
         27-1 UNCERTAINTY AND POLICY
         How Much Do Macroeconomists Actually
         Know? ?Should LJncertainty Lead
         Policy Makers to Do Less? ? Uncertainty and Restraints on Policy
         Makers
         27-2 EXPECTATIONS AND POLICY
         Hijackings and Negotiations ? Inflation and Unemployment Revisited
         554 ?Establishing Credibility ?Time
         Consistency and Restraints on Policy
         Makers
         27-3 POLITICS AND POLICY
         Games Between Policy Makers and Voters
         559 ?Games Between Policy Makers
         ?Back to the Balanced-Budget
         Amendment
         CHAPTER 28 - MONETARY POLICY: A
         SUMMING UP
         28-1
         TTHE OPTIMAL INFLATION RATE
         The Costs of Inflation ?The Benefits
         of Inflation ?The Optimal Inflation
         Rate: The Current Debate
         28-2
         MONEY VERSUS LlQUIDlTY
         Money and Other Liquid Assets. ?The
         Demand for Money Revisited ? Implications for Monetary Policy
         THE FED IN ACTION
         The Fed's Mandate ?The
         Organization of the Fed ?The
         Instruments of Monetarv Policy ?The
         Current Versus Future Taxes ?Debt
         and Primary Surpluscs ?The
         Evolution of the Debt-to-GDP Ratio
         29-2 FOUR ISSUES IN FlSCAL POLICY
         Ricardian Equivalence ?Defidts.
         Output Stabilization, and the Cyclically
         Adjusted Deficit ?Wars and Deficits
         ?The Dangers of Very High Deht
         29-3 THEU.S. BUDGETDEFICIT
         PART TEN - EPILOGUE
         CHAPTER 30 - THE STORY OF
         MACROECONOM 1 CS
         30-1 KEYNES AND THE GREAT
         DEPRESSION
         30-2 THE NEOCLASSICAL SYNTHESIS
         Progress on All Fronts ?Keynesians
         Versus Monetarists
         30-3 THE RATIONAL-EXPECTATIONS
         CRITIQUE
         The Three Implications of Rational
         Expectations ?The Integration of
         Rational Expectations
         30-4 CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS
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