Author : Lars Peter Hansen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691180733
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Book Synopsis Recursive Models of Dynamic Linear Economies by : Lars Peter Hansen
Download or read book Recursive Models of Dynamic Linear Economies written by Lars Peter Hansen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the economic modeling of household preferences, from two leaders in the field A common set of mathematical tools underlies dynamic optimization, dynamic estimation, and filtering. In Recursive Models of Dynamic Linear Economies, Lars Peter Hansen and Thomas Sargent use these tools to create a class of econometrically tractable models of prices and quantities. They present examples from microeconomics, macroeconomics, and asset pricing. The models are cast in terms of a representative consumer. While Hansen and Sargent demonstrate the analytical benefits acquired when an analysis with a representative consumer is possible, they also characterize the restrictiveness of assumptions under which a representative household justifies a purely aggregative analysis. Hansen and Sargent unite economic theory with a workable econometrics while going beyond and beneath demand and supply curves for dynamic economies. They construct and apply competitive equilibria for a class of linear-quadratic-Gaussian dynamic economies with complete markets. Their book, based on the 2012 Gorman lectures, stresses heterogeneity, aggregation, and how a common structure unites what superficially appear to be diverse applications. An appendix describes MATLAB programs that apply to the book's calculations.