Macroeconomic Accounting

Introductory

Taking the Pulse of the Economy: Measuring GDP

[Landefeld.Seskin.Fraumeni-2008-JEP]_

Why Has the U.S. Net Foreign Asset Position Weakened?

https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2015/august/us-deteriorating-net-foreign-asset-position);

Exports to Mars

http://www.economist.com/node/21538100);

Taking the Pulse of the Economy: Measuring GDP

[Landefeld.Seskin.Fraumeni-2008-JEP]_

What Is the Balance of Payments?

[Fieleke-1996-FRBBSR]_

Advanced

Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual

[IMF-2009-BPIIPM6]_ https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/bop/2007/bopman6.htm

NIPA Handbook

https://www.bea.gov/resources/methodologies/nipa-handbook

Beyond GDP? Welfare across Countries and Time

[Jones.Klenow-2016-AER]_ suggest a better measure of welfare than GDP.

A Guide To U.S. Chain Aggregated NIPA Data

[Whelan-2002-RIW]_ explains the Commerce Department’s switch to chain aggregation and shows how this affects our understanding of how information technology is changing the U.S. economy.

National Accounts & Economics: A Study in Concepts

Utz-Peter Reich Plagrave October 2001 isbn: 0-333-73391-6

Stylized Facts

Growth and the Kaldor Facts

[Herrendorf.etal-2019-FRBSLR]_ discuss the Kaldor facts in the context of a multi-sector growth model.

The New Kaldor Facts

[Jones.Romer-2010-AEJMacro]_

A Model of Economic Growth

[Kaldor-1957-EJ]_

Financial Programming

Core Resource:

Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual

[IMF-2009-BPIIPM6]_

Recommended Reading:

Quarterly National Accounts Manual? Concepts, Data Sources, and Compilation

[Bloem.Dippelsman.Maehle-2001-IMF]_

Feeding the National Account

[Ritter-2000-FRBSLR]_ (and Ritter data); describes the data sources for the National Income and Product Accounts (NIPA).

Global Financial Markets

Introductory

The Anatomy of the Global FX Market through the Lens of the 2013 Triennial Survey

[Rime.Schrimpf-2013-BISQR]_

Under the Microscope: The Structure of the Foreign Exchange Market

[Sager.Taylor-2006-IJFinEc]_

Supplementary

NDF update

http://www.bis.org/publ/qtrpdf/r_qt1403h.htm

Foreign Exchange Market: Institutional Structure, Regulation, and Policy Implications

[Fei.Zhao-2017-JFinEcon]_

All About ... the Foreign Exchange Market in the United States

[Cross-1998-FRBNY]_ (esp. ch 2,3,5);

Changing Fortunes

[Milesi-2009-FinDev]_

Money and Inflation

Long-Run Evidence on Money Growth and Inflation

[Benati-2009-ECBwp1027]_

Long-run Money Demand Redux

Luca Benati, Robert Lucas, Juan Pablo Nicolini, Warren E. Weber, 11 March 2017, https://voxeu.org/article/long-run-money-demand-redux

Zaire's Hyperinflation, 1990—1996

[Beaugrand-1997-IMFWP]_

“On the Stability of Money Demand”

[Lucas.Nocolini-2015-JME]_ shows that regulations of the early 1980s, which considerably weakened Regulation Q, explain the apparent an instability of money demand. Constructs a more stable monetary aggregate that performs well for the period 1915–2012.

Unconventional Monetary Policy

Monetary Finance: Do Not Touch, or Handle with Care?

[Agur.etal-2022-IMF]_ considers the use and effectiveness of unconventional monetary policy (and in particular, monetary finance).

Monetary Approach

Core Reading

A Monetary Approach to the Exchange Rate

[Frenkel-1976-ScanJE]_ (on Reserve);

Supplementary Reading

Open Economy IS-LM

[Mark-2001-Blackwell]_ ch. 3.2

The Monetary Model Strikes Back

[Cerra.Saxena-2010-JIE]_ provides more recent evidence in favor of the monetary approach.

The Case for Flexible Exchange Rates, 1969

[Johnson-1969-FRBSLR]_ http://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/review/past/1969/

The Monetary Approach to The Exchange Rate—Some Empirical Evidence

[Bilson-1978-IMFSP]_ provides early evidence in favor of the monetary approach.

On the Mark: Comment

Driskill, R.A. and S.M. Sheffrin, 1981, AER 71, 1068--74.

Monetary approach. Real exchange Rate

[Mark-2001-Blackwell]_ ch. 2.4, 3.1, 7 provides a textbook discussion.

The Economics of Exchange Rates: Selected Studies

[frenkel.johnson-1978]_

Asset Price Bubbles

A Simple Perfect Foresight Monetary Model

[Brock-1975-JME]_

Market Fundamentals versus Price-Level Bubbles: The First Tests

[Flood.Garber-1980-JPE]_

Purchasing Power Parity

The Purchasing Power Parity and Exchange-rate Economics Half a Century On

[Vo.Vo-2022-JEconSurveys]_

Long-run Purchasing Power Parity Redux

[Papell.Prodan-2020-JIMF]_

The Purchasing Power Parity Debate

[Taylor.Taylor-2004-JEP]_

International Prices and Exchange Rates

[Burstein.Gopinath-2014_Helpman.etal]_ https://www.nber.org/papers/w18829

A Prism into the PPP Puzzles: The Micro-Foundations of Big Mac Real Exchange Rates

[Parsley.Wei-2007-EJ]_ explore micro-foundations for Big Mac real exchange rates.

Purchasing-Power Parity: Definition, Measurement, and Interpretation

[Lafrance.Schembri-2002-BCR]_ https://www.bankofcanada.ca/research/conferences-workshops/revisiting-case-flexible-exchange-rates/

Estimating the Border Effect: Some New Evidence

[Gopinath.etal-2009-NBER14938]_

PPP Strikes Back: Aggregation and the Real Exchange Rate

[Imbs.etal-2005-QJE]_

Does ‘Aggregation Bias’ Explain the PPP Puzzle?

[Chen.Engel-2005-PacificEconRev]_ find that aggregation bias does not help explain PPP puzzle.

Exchange Rate Economics

[Isard-1995-CambridgeUP]_ ch. 4

Exchange Rates and Inflation

[Dornbusch-1988-MITPress]_ ch. 13

Classic Articles

Purchasing Power Parity: Doctrinal Perspectives and Evidence from the 1920s

[Frenkel-1978-JIE]_

Burgernomics: A Big Mac (TM) Guide to Purchasing Power Parity

[Pakko.Pollard-2003-FRBSLR]_

Inflation, Exchange Rates and PPP in a Multivariate Panel Cointegration Model

[Jacobson.etal-2008-TrixJ]_

Productivity Bias Hypothesis

The Purchasing Power Parity and Exchange-rate Economics Half a Century On

[Vo.Vo-2022-JEconSurveys]_

Relative Labor Productivity and the Real Exchange Rate in the Long Run: Evidence for a Panel of {OECD} Countries

[Canzoneri.Cumby.Diba-1999-JIE]_

The ‘Real’ Explanation of the PPP Puzzle

[Ford.Horioka-2016-NBERw22198]_

Institutions and Stability

European Stability Mechanism

ESM (cont.)

Resources: Recommended but not required.

Video: Klaus Regling: Lessons From The Euro Crisis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdUER6OHNlU

Video: 2021 ESM Reform

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdUER6OHNlU

More institutional details:

https://www.esm.europa.eu/

More history (online book):

https://www.esm.europa.eu/publications/safeguarding-euro

book promotional video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzxiuJ_R32k

ESM blog:

https://www.esm.europa.eu/blog