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Monetary Policy, Inflation, and the Business Cycle: An Introduction to the New Keynesian Framework
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"A state-of-the-art treatment of the emerging New Keynesian synthesis by one of the leaders in the field, Galí's book is a must-read for the next generation of macroeconomists."―N. Gregory Mankiw, Harvard University
"This is a wonderfully elegant and accessible introduction to the contemporary New Keynesian paradigm, written by one of the leading experts in the field. This monograph presents what one should know in a clean, cogent, and concise manner. I fully expect it to become a standard reference for both students and researchers in the field."―Mark Gertler, New York University
"This book provides an excellent introduction and exegesis of the New Keynesian model that is the current state of the art in the analysis of monetary policy. It will find a large audience with research economists, graduate students, and staffers in central banks around the world."―Philip R. Lane, Trinity College Dublin
"Systematic and concise. This is a fine book that is likely to become the key basic text for graduate courses on monetary policy."―Seppo Honkapohja, University of Cambridge
"Authoritative. This book will be very useful to graduate students and to others seeking an introduction to modern work in this area."―Michael Woodford, Columbia University
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"Jordi Galí provides an authoritative overview of the research that revolutionized monetary economics during the past decade, by embedding sticky prices in a coherent dynamic general equilibrium framework--thus providing a novel and much clearer positive and normative analysis of monetary policy. The presentation is elegant and intuitive, yet rigorous. The book will be a standard reference for graduate students, researchers, and policymakers. It is also highly recommended as a textbook for money/macro courses. Numerous useful exercises are provided."--Robert Kollmann, European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics, Free University of Brussels
"A state-of-the-art treatment of the emerging New Keynesian synthesis by one of the leaders in the field, Galí's book is a must-read for the next generation of macroeconomists."--N. Gregory Mankiw, Harvard University
"This is a wonderfully elegant and accessible introduction to the contemporary New Keynesian paradigm, written by one of the leading experts in the field. This monograph presents what one should know in a clean, cogent, and concise manner. I fully expect it to become a standard reference for both students and researchers in the field."--Mark Gertler, New York University
"This book provides an excellent introduction and exegesis of the New Keynesian model that is the current state of the art in the analysis of monetary policy. It will find a large audience with research economists, graduate students, and staffers in central banks around the world."--Philip R. Lane, Trinity College Dublin
"Systematic and concise. This is a fine book that is likely to become the key basic text for graduate courses on monetary policy."--Seppo Honkapohja, University of Cambridge
"Authoritative. This book will be very useful to graduate students and to others seeking an introduction to modern work in this area."--Michael Woodford, Columbia University
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"Jordi Galí provides an authoritative overview of the research that revolutionized monetary economics during the past decade, by embedding sticky prices in a coherent dynamic general equilibrium framework--thus providing a novel and much clearer positive and normative analysis of monetary policy. The presentation is elegant and intuitive, yet rigorous. The book will be a standard reference for graduate students, researchers, and policymakers. It is also highly recommended as a textbook for money/macro courses. Numerous useful exercises are provided."--Robert Kollmann, European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics, Free University of Brussels
"A state-of-the-art treatment of the emerging New Keynesian synthesis by one of the leaders in the field, Galí's book is a must-read for the next generation of macroeconomists."--N. Gregory Mankiw, Harvard University
"This is a wonderfully elegant and accessible introduction to the contemporary New Keynesian paradigm, written by one of the leading experts in the field. This monograph presents what one should know in a clean, cogent, and concise manner. I fully expect it to become a standard reference for both students and researchers in the field."--Mark Gertler, New York University
"This book provides an excellent introduction and exegesis of the New Keynesian model that is the current state of the art in the analysis of monetary policy. It will find a large audience with research economists, graduate students, and staffers in central banks around the world."--Philip R. Lane, Trinity College Dublin
"Systematic and concise. This is a fine book that is likely to become the key basic text for graduate courses on monetary policy."--Seppo Honkapohja, University of Cambridge
"Authoritative. This book will be very useful to graduate students and to others seeking an introduction to modern work in this area."--Michael Woodford, Columbia University
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- ISBN-13978-0691133164
- PublisherPrinceton University Press
- Publication dateMarch 2, 2008
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions6.25 x 1 x 9.5 inches
- Print length224 pages
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- Publisher : Princeton University Press (March 2, 2008)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 224 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0691133166
- ISBN-13 : 978-0691133164
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- Dimensions : 6.25 x 1 x 9.5 inches
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Galí's work is very useful as a set of replacement lecture notes and problem sets for an instructor who does not want to write up her own and for this we must be thankful to him. But this is not yet a textbook that can be used for self-study.
However, even by that goal, the book has some serious flaws. The author doesn't spend enough time in justifying some of the underlying assumptions that go into DSGE models, nor does he perform any sort of robustness check on these assumptions. For instance, after reading this book, I have no idea why Gali log-linearizes the first order conditions of his model before he proceeds to the solution. I know theorems like Hartman-Grobman allow linearization of the transition function in a neighbourhood of a hyperbolic steady state, but linearisation of the first-order conditions? Why is this legitimate? If so, HOW legitimate is it? Since we never actually get the solution to a real DSGE, we can't know how wrong the linearizations are. This issue is totally ignored by Gali. Likewise, what are the implications of the specific form of the utility function he picks for the agents(or should that be agent)? Why does the household have market power in setting its own wages? How robust is the numerical welfare analysis to a change in the underlying, arbitrarily chosen, welfare function? What are the implications of the outlandish assumption that there are an infinite number of identical countries each with measure zero? Why are we allowed to assume that the production function is linear in technology? Why do we use Calvo pricing over adjustment costs and what are the implications? Why do these models completely abstract away from capital and investment? Why is this legitimate and what are the implications? Surely a model studying interest rates should have meaningful investment/consumption decisions (in Gali's models, the representative consumer consumes all output in every period and there is never any savings, because capital is not required for production). These and many other pertinent issues are wholly ignored by Gali. He never indicates why many of the assumptions are made or what their potential consequences are.
Despite all these simplifications though, a lot of the analysis still ends up being numerical (rather than analytical), and I found this to be thoroughly disappointing. I can appreciate how such a heavily stylized model might tell you something qualitatively valuable, but I wouldn't put any weight on its quantitative predictions. As it turns out, the model's numerical predictions are basically all we get. After reading this book, I know vaguely *what* monetary theorists do, but I have no idea *why* they do it! Not only that, I wouldn't trust a DSGE model to tell me anything quantitatively relevant about the real economy.
On the plus side, Gali doesn't mince his words. The book is relatively short and it communicates its main ideas efficiently. This is in contrast to the excruciating exercise in verbosity put out by Michael Woodford.
Do not buy kindle version. It is simply awful.
