Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Noah Smith — The equation at the core of modern macro


The Euler equation, and it doesn't fit the data. Why. Consumer's aren't rational in the sense that saving desire increases with the interest rate.

Noahpinion
The equation at the core of modern macro
Noah Smith | Assistant Professor of Finance, Stony Brook University

2 comments:

Brian Romanchuk said...

Hi,

I did a piece yesterday in which I list what I view as an even bigger theoretical problem with DSGE macro - the models appear to be stock-flow inconsistent, in that they ignore dividends. If dividend flows are added into the models, the models become trivial - no matter what, the economy is at full employment.

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