Modern
Business Cycle
Theory
EDITED BY
Robert J. Barro
Harvard University Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Contents
Introduction 1
Robert J. Barro
1 Real Business Cycle Models 16
Bennett T. McCallum
2 Capital Accumulation in the Theory of Long-Run Growth 51
Paul M. Romer
3 Rational Expectations and the Informational Role
of Prices 128
Sanford J. Grossman
4 Consumption 153
Robert E. Hall
5 The Neoclassical Approach to Fiscal Policy 178
Robert J. Barro
6 Reputation, Coordination, and Monetary Policy 236
Kenneth Rogoff
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7 Time Consistency and Policy 265
V. V. Chari, Patrick J. Kehoe, and Edward C. Prescott
8 Some Alternative Monetary Models and Their Implications
for the Role of Open-Market Policy 306
Neil Wallace
Contributors 330
Index 331