The Econometrics of Macroeconomic Modelling

Gunnar Bårdsen is Senior Advisor at Norges Bank (Central Bank of Norway) and Associate Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. He has published papers in macroeconomics, monetary economics, and theoretical and applied econometrics.; Øyvind Eitrheim, b. 1958, has been Director of Research at Norges Bank since 2001. He has previously been Head of the Model Building Unit (1996-2001) at the central bank. He has been a Visiting Scholar at University of California, San Diego (1990-1991). Eitrheim has been with Norges Bank since January 1984. He has published papers in macroeconomics, monetary economics, and theoretical and applied econometrics.Eilev S. Jansen, b. 1948, is a Director at the Central Bank of Norway and a Professor at Department of Economics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim. He has previously been Head of the Model Building Unit (1983-1988) and Director of Research (1988-2001) at the central bank. He has been a Visiting Scholar at London School of Economics (1975-76), University of California (1993-93,2003-04), and the European Central Bank, Frankfurt (2003). Other affiliations include Department of Economics, University of Oslo (1972-77, 2001-02) and Stastitics Norway (1978-82). He has published papers in international journals and books and he is a co-author of "The econometrics of incomplete time-series/cross-section data" (with Erik Biørn).Ragnar Nymoen, b. 1957, is Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Oslo. He has published papers in macroeconomics and econometrics. In the period 1985-1996, he worked as an economists in the Research Department in Central Bank of Norway.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. Methodological issues of large scale macromodels ; 3. The Norwegian main-course model ; 4. The Phillips curve ; 5. Wage bargaining and price setting ; 6. Wage-price dynamics ; 7. The New Keynesian Phillips Curve ; 8. Money and inflation ; 9. Transmission channels and model properties ; 10. Evaluation of monetary policy rules ; 11. Forecasting using econometric models ; 12. Appendices

This book gives an excellent insight into the process of forming a high-quality, real-world macro-model then evaluating and using it. This is an important topic and makes this an important book. Clive W.J. Granger, Nobel Laureate