Dynamic Macroeconomics: Methods, Models and Analysis

A special issue of Economies (ISSN 2227-7099). This special issue belongs to the section "Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, and Financial Markets".

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Macroeconomic analysis is a complex business, for it purports to address fundamental questions that are inherent to the structure and functioning of sophisticated economic systems that encompass markets, enterprises, consumers and public institutions: What are the key determinants of unemployment dynamics? What stimulates, or hinders, long-run economic growth and short-run fluctuations? How to design policies addressing efficiency and inequality issues at different layers? Answering these and related questions will deepen our understanding of the structural features of aggregate economies and the main political, institutional and socio-economic forces and mechanisms shaping their evolution and persistence over time.

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Keywords

  • macroeconomic theory
  • empirical macroeconomics
  • DSGE models
  • agent-based modeling
  • identification
  • estimation

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Debt Puzzle: A Comparative Analysis of Public Debt’s Impact on Production Efficiency across OECD Countries
by Usama R. Al-qalawi and Arqam Al-Rabbaie
Economies 2024, 12(7), 161; https://doi.org/10.3390/economies12070161 - 26 Jun 2024
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Debt is a fundamental component of modern economic systems. It serves as a source of financing for government, business, and individual projects. Many earlier studies concentrated on the direct relationship between debt and economic performance using different econometric methodologies. This work investigates the [...] Read more.
Debt is a fundamental component of modern economic systems. It serves as a source of financing for government, business, and individual projects. Many earlier studies concentrated on the direct relationship between debt and economic performance using different econometric methodologies. This work investigates the effect of debt on production efficiency, extracted from the estimated production function. Unlike previous econometric approaches, we employ a production stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) on data for 18 OECD countries spanning from Quarter 1, 2015, to Quarter 3, 2021, to capture the short-run effect of debt on the production efficiency and, thus, output growth. The results show that, in the short run, as debt increases by $1 billion, efficiency increases by 0.04%. Additionally, we found that the most indebted countries are the most efficient countries. In our sample, those were the UK and France. Furthermore, the average efficiency for the 18 OECD countries was 70.07. Full article
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