Is something really wrong with macroeconomics?

Reis, Ricardo,(2018), Is something really wrong with macroeconomics? , Oxford Review of Economic Policy, UNSPECIFIED

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Abstract

Many critiques of the state of macroeconomics are off target. Current macroeconomic research is not mindless DSGE modelling filled with ridiculous assumptions and oblivious of data. Rather, young macroeconomists are doing vibrant, varied, and exciting work, getting jobs, and being published. Macroeconomics informs economic policy only moderately, and not more than nor differently from other fields in economics. Monetary policy has benefitted significantly from this advice in keeping inflation under control and preventing a new Great Depression. Macroeconomic forecasts perform poorly in absolute terms and, given the size of the challenge, probably always will. But relative to the level of aggregation, the time horizon, and the amount of funding, macroeconomic forecasts are not so obviously worse than those in other fields. What is most wrong with macroeconomics today is perhaps that there is too little discussion of which models to teach and too little investment in graduate-level textbooks.
Keywords : methodology, graduate teaching, forecasting, public debate, UNSPECIFIED
Journal or Publication Title: Oxford Review of Economic Policy
Volume: 34
Number: 1-2
Item Type: Article
Subjects: Ekonomi Pembangunan
Depositing User: Elok Inajati
Date Deposited: 26 Dec 2019 06:47
Last Modified: 26 Dec 2019 06:47
URI: https://repofeb.undip.ac.id/id/eprint/860

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