macro theory: a quick review -...
TRANSCRIPT
![Page 1: Macro theory: A quick review - ComUniTedibartolomeo.comunite.it/courses/polmon/slides/macro_review.pdf · Theory: Big view Keynesian Cross Theory of ... employment in the short run](https://reader031.vdocuments.mx/reader031/viewer/2022030411/5a9dac1b7f8b9a85318b552d/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Macro theory: A quick review
Giovanni Di Bartolomeo
Sapienza University of Rome
Department of economics and law
Advanced Monetary Theory and Policy EPOS 2013/14
![Page 2: Macro theory: A quick review - ComUniTedibartolomeo.comunite.it/courses/polmon/slides/macro_review.pdf · Theory: Big view Keynesian Cross Theory of ... employment in the short run](https://reader031.vdocuments.mx/reader031/viewer/2022030411/5a9dac1b7f8b9a85318b552d/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
Theory: Big view
Keynesian
Cross
Theory of
Liquidity
Preference
IS
curve
LM
curve
IS-LM
model
AD
curve
AS
curve
Model of
AD/AS
Business
Cycle
fluctuations
Phillips
curve
![Page 3: Macro theory: A quick review - ComUniTedibartolomeo.comunite.it/courses/polmon/slides/macro_review.pdf · Theory: Big view Keynesian Cross Theory of ... employment in the short run](https://reader031.vdocuments.mx/reader031/viewer/2022030411/5a9dac1b7f8b9a85318b552d/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
The downward-sloping AD curve
Y
P
AD
• The aggregate demand curve shows the relationship
between the price level and the quantity of output
demanded. It can be derived from the IS/LM model
A
B
![Page 4: Macro theory: A quick review - ComUniTedibartolomeo.comunite.it/courses/polmon/slides/macro_review.pdf · Theory: Big view Keynesian Cross Theory of ... employment in the short run](https://reader031.vdocuments.mx/reader031/viewer/2022030411/5a9dac1b7f8b9a85318b552d/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
Y1 Y2 Y
r
Y
P
IS
LM(P1)
LM(P2)
AD
P1
P2
Y2 Y1
r2
r1
Intuition for slope
of AD curve:
P (M/P )
LM shifts left
r
I
Y
Intuition: Deriving the AD curve
A
B
![Page 5: Macro theory: A quick review - ComUniTedibartolomeo.comunite.it/courses/polmon/slides/macro_review.pdf · Theory: Big view Keynesian Cross Theory of ... employment in the short run](https://reader031.vdocuments.mx/reader031/viewer/2022030411/5a9dac1b7f8b9a85318b552d/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Shifting the AD curve
Y
P
AD
• An increase in the money supply shifts the AD curve to
the right
AD2
C D
![Page 6: Macro theory: A quick review - ComUniTedibartolomeo.comunite.it/courses/polmon/slides/macro_review.pdf · Theory: Big view Keynesian Cross Theory of ... employment in the short run](https://reader031.vdocuments.mx/reader031/viewer/2022030411/5a9dac1b7f8b9a85318b552d/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
Y
P
IS
LM(M2/P1)
LM(M1/P1)
AD1
P1
Y1
Y1
Y2
Y2
r1
r2
The Fed can increase
aggregate demand:
M LM shifts right
AD2
Y
r
r
I
Y at each
value of P
Intuition: Monetary policy and the AD curve
C D
![Page 7: Macro theory: A quick review - ComUniTedibartolomeo.comunite.it/courses/polmon/slides/macro_review.pdf · Theory: Big view Keynesian Cross Theory of ... employment in the short run](https://reader031.vdocuments.mx/reader031/viewer/2022030411/5a9dac1b7f8b9a85318b552d/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
Neoclassical view
• The economy works well on its own
• “Invisible hand”: the idea that if there are free markets
and individuals conduct their economic affairs in their
own best interests, the overall economy will work well…
• Wages and prices adjust rapidly to get to equilibrium
– Equilibrium: a situation in which the quantities
demanded and supplied are equal
– Changes in wages and prices are signals that
coordinate people‟s actions
• Result: Government should have only a limited role in
the economy
![Page 8: Macro theory: A quick review - ComUniTedibartolomeo.comunite.it/courses/polmon/slides/macro_review.pdf · Theory: Big view Keynesian Cross Theory of ... employment in the short run](https://reader031.vdocuments.mx/reader031/viewer/2022030411/5a9dac1b7f8b9a85318b552d/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
Quantitative theory in the AD/AS model
• Neo-classic economists: Money is a veil and monetary
policy useless
Y
P
AD1
LRAS
Y
An increase in M
shifts AD to the
right.
P1
P2 In the long run, this
raises the price
level…
…but leaves output
the same.
AD2
Determined by real factors
![Page 9: Macro theory: A quick review - ComUniTedibartolomeo.comunite.it/courses/polmon/slides/macro_review.pdf · Theory: Big view Keynesian Cross Theory of ... employment in the short run](https://reader031.vdocuments.mx/reader031/viewer/2022030411/5a9dac1b7f8b9a85318b552d/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
Do markets work?
![Page 10: Macro theory: A quick review - ComUniTedibartolomeo.comunite.it/courses/polmon/slides/macro_review.pdf · Theory: Big view Keynesian Cross Theory of ... employment in the short run](https://reader031.vdocuments.mx/reader031/viewer/2022030411/5a9dac1b7f8b9a85318b552d/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
The effects of a negative demand shock
PSRAS
LRAS
AD2
Y
P
Y
P2
Y2
A B
C AD1
AD shifts left,
depressing output and
employment
in the short run
Over time, prices fall
and the economy
moves down its
demand curve toward
natural employment
JM Keynes
![Page 11: Macro theory: A quick review - ComUniTedibartolomeo.comunite.it/courses/polmon/slides/macro_review.pdf · Theory: Big view Keynesian Cross Theory of ... employment in the short run](https://reader031.vdocuments.mx/reader031/viewer/2022030411/5a9dac1b7f8b9a85318b552d/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Keynesian view
• The Great Depression: Classical theory failed because
high unemployment was persistent
• Keynes: Persistent unemployment occurs because
wages and prices adjust slowly, so markets remain out
of equilibrium for long periods
– Indeed Keynes (and Kalescki) argues that prices and
wages may do not adjust at all
– Anyway the long run is very far: In the long run we
are all dead (J.M. Keynes)
• Conclusion: Government should intervene to restore full
employment
![Page 12: Macro theory: A quick review - ComUniTedibartolomeo.comunite.it/courses/polmon/slides/macro_review.pdf · Theory: Big view Keynesian Cross Theory of ... employment in the short run](https://reader031.vdocuments.mx/reader031/viewer/2022030411/5a9dac1b7f8b9a85318b552d/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
“Keynesian” world (fixed prices)
• Keynesian economists: Money is not neutral (it affects
output)
Y
P
AD1
In the short run when
prices are sticky…
…causes output to rise.
PSRAS
Y2 Y1
…an increase in
aggregate demand…
AD2
Y
LRAS
![Page 13: Macro theory: A quick review - ComUniTedibartolomeo.comunite.it/courses/polmon/slides/macro_review.pdf · Theory: Big view Keynesian Cross Theory of ... employment in the short run](https://reader031.vdocuments.mx/reader031/viewer/2022030411/5a9dac1b7f8b9a85318b552d/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
Samuelson and Solow in the 1960s
• Between (fully) flexible and fixed price models
Y
P
AS
AD1
AD2
2P
P1
A
B
Y1 Y2
JFK
![Page 14: Macro theory: A quick review - ComUniTedibartolomeo.comunite.it/courses/polmon/slides/macro_review.pdf · Theory: Big view Keynesian Cross Theory of ... employment in the short run](https://reader031.vdocuments.mx/reader031/viewer/2022030411/5a9dac1b7f8b9a85318b552d/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
AD/AS and the policy menu
u 0
4 7
B
A
6
2
Y 8,000 7,500 0
106
102
P
A
B
u=4% u=7% Y=8000
Y=7500
AS
AD2
AD1
Policy menu
Unemployment rates associated to output values
(Okun Law)
The Phillips Curve is just an alternative way
of describing the Aggregate Supply Curve
![Page 15: Macro theory: A quick review - ComUniTedibartolomeo.comunite.it/courses/polmon/slides/macro_review.pdf · Theory: Big view Keynesian Cross Theory of ... employment in the short run](https://reader031.vdocuments.mx/reader031/viewer/2022030411/5a9dac1b7f8b9a85318b552d/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
The estimated Phillips curve: - a u + C
Unemployment rate (u)
Inflation rate ()
1968
1966
19611962
1963
1967
19651964
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
2
4
6
8
10
C
-a
In the interview, Robert Solow said “Paul Samuelson
asked me when we were looking at these diagrams (of
inflation and unemployment) for the first time, „Does
that look like a reversible relation to you?‟ What he
meant was „Do you really think the economy can move
back and forth along a curve like that?‟ And I answered
„Yeah I‟m inclined to believe it,‟ and Paul said „Me too‟”
Robert Solow
Paul Samuelson
![Page 16: Macro theory: A quick review - ComUniTedibartolomeo.comunite.it/courses/polmon/slides/macro_review.pdf · Theory: Big view Keynesian Cross Theory of ... employment in the short run](https://reader031.vdocuments.mx/reader031/viewer/2022030411/5a9dac1b7f8b9a85318b552d/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
Government loss function: L = b2+u2
Unemployment rate (u)
Inflation rate ()
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
2
4
6
8
10
First best
L1
L2
L3
L0
[,u] =[0,0]
L3>L2>L1>L0
![Page 17: Macro theory: A quick review - ComUniTedibartolomeo.comunite.it/courses/polmon/slides/macro_review.pdf · Theory: Big view Keynesian Cross Theory of ... employment in the short run](https://reader031.vdocuments.mx/reader031/viewer/2022030411/5a9dac1b7f8b9a85318b552d/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
Optimal policy (Tinbergen-Theil approach )
Unemployment rate (u)
Inflation rate ()
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
2
4
6
8
10
First best
L1
L2
L3
L0
E
A B
optimal policy rule
![Page 18: Macro theory: A quick review - ComUniTedibartolomeo.comunite.it/courses/polmon/slides/macro_review.pdf · Theory: Big view Keynesian Cross Theory of ... employment in the short run](https://reader031.vdocuments.mx/reader031/viewer/2022030411/5a9dac1b7f8b9a85318b552d/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
Formal representation of the problem
• The Government (Central bank)‟s flexible-target problem
𝑀𝑖𝑛 𝐿 = 𝛽𝜋2 + 𝑢2 s.t. 𝜋 = −𝛼𝑢 + 𝐶
• How can we solve it? (many ways)
• By Lagrangian
𝑀𝑖𝑛*𝜋,𝑢,l+ L = 𝛽𝜋2 + 𝑢2 + l −𝛼𝑢 + 𝐶 − 𝜋
• Or by substitution
𝑀𝑖𝑛*𝜋,𝑢,l+ L = 𝛽𝜋2 +𝐶
𝛼−
𝜋
𝛼
2 (find 𝜋 and then u by PC)
or
𝑀𝑖𝑛*𝜋,𝑢,l+ L = 𝛽𝜋2 + −𝛼𝑢 + 𝐶 2 (find u and then 𝜋 by PC)
• Or …
![Page 19: Macro theory: A quick review - ComUniTedibartolomeo.comunite.it/courses/polmon/slides/macro_review.pdf · Theory: Big view Keynesian Cross Theory of ... employment in the short run](https://reader031.vdocuments.mx/reader031/viewer/2022030411/5a9dac1b7f8b9a85318b552d/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
Optimal policy rule (derivation)
• The Government (Central bank)‟s problem
𝑀𝑖𝑛*𝜋+𝐿 = 𝛽𝜋2 + 𝑢(𝜋)2 s.t. 𝑢(𝜋) =𝐶
𝛼−
𝜋
𝛼
• The operative instrument is 𝜋 (it chooses M, moving the
AD, to get a certain P (i.e. 𝜋) on the AS, Y and 𝑢 follows)
• First order condition
2𝛽𝜋 + 2𝑢𝜕𝐶(𝜋)
𝜕𝑢= 0
• i.e. optimal policy rule (Government minimize the cost):
𝛽𝜋 −1
𝛼𝑢 = 0 𝜋 =
1
𝛼𝛽𝑢
• By using the optimal monetary policy rule and the PC we
obtain the equilibrium for and (a linear system of two
equations in two unknowns)
![Page 20: Macro theory: A quick review - ComUniTedibartolomeo.comunite.it/courses/polmon/slides/macro_review.pdf · Theory: Big view Keynesian Cross Theory of ... employment in the short run](https://reader031.vdocuments.mx/reader031/viewer/2022030411/5a9dac1b7f8b9a85318b552d/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
In the 1970s something changes
• Stagflation; both are u high (out of PC?)
1966
1971
19611962
1963
1967
1968
19691970
19651964
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 100
2
4
6
8
10
Inflation rate ()
Unemployment rate (u)
1972
19751981
1976
19781979
1980
1973
1974
1977
![Page 21: Macro theory: A quick review - ComUniTedibartolomeo.comunite.it/courses/polmon/slides/macro_review.pdf · Theory: Big view Keynesian Cross Theory of ... employment in the short run](https://reader031.vdocuments.mx/reader031/viewer/2022030411/5a9dac1b7f8b9a85318b552d/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
The 1970s oil shocks
1P SRAS1
Y
P
AD
LRAS
YY2
A
B 2P SRAS2
A
The oil price shock
shifts SRAS up,
causing output and
employment to fall
In absence of further
price shocks, prices will
fall over time and
economy moves back
toward natural level of
employment
Stagflation
![Page 22: Macro theory: A quick review - ComUniTedibartolomeo.comunite.it/courses/polmon/slides/macro_review.pdf · Theory: Big view Keynesian Cross Theory of ... employment in the short run](https://reader031.vdocuments.mx/reader031/viewer/2022030411/5a9dac1b7f8b9a85318b552d/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
1966
1971
19611962
1963
1967
1968
19691970
19651964
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 100
2
4
6
8
10
Inflation rate ()
Unemployment rate (u)
1972
19751981
1976
19781979
1980
1973
1974
1977
Optimal policy and an (observed) shock
optimal policy rule
C+e
- a u + C + e
A
C
𝝅 =𝟏
𝜶𝜷𝒖
![Page 23: Macro theory: A quick review - ComUniTedibartolomeo.comunite.it/courses/polmon/slides/macro_review.pdf · Theory: Big view Keynesian Cross Theory of ... employment in the short run](https://reader031.vdocuments.mx/reader031/viewer/2022030411/5a9dac1b7f8b9a85318b552d/html5/thumbnails/23.jpg)
Friedman‟s 1968 AEA Presidential Address
• Milton Friedman argued the following
– Theory (his theory) predicts no stable relationship
between unemployment and inflation
– According to his theory, policymakers do face a short-
term tradeoff between unemployment and inflation
due to the private sector‟s failure to quickly adapt to
changing environments
– long term costs to policymakers of exploiting short
term tradeoff. If policymaker generates temporarily
low unemployment by inflating, in future, higher and
higher unemployment rates will be associated with
each level of inflation. (Phillips curve shifts out)
• This argument was formalized and refined by Lucas
![Page 24: Macro theory: A quick review - ComUniTedibartolomeo.comunite.it/courses/polmon/slides/macro_review.pdf · Theory: Big view Keynesian Cross Theory of ... employment in the short run](https://reader031.vdocuments.mx/reader031/viewer/2022030411/5a9dac1b7f8b9a85318b552d/html5/thumbnails/24.jpg)
• An attempt to increase Y over LRAS…
From the short to the long run (M > 0)
Y
P
AD1
LRAS
Y
PSRAS
P2
Y2
A
B
C
AD2
![Page 25: Macro theory: A quick review - ComUniTedibartolomeo.comunite.it/courses/polmon/slides/macro_review.pdf · Theory: Big view Keynesian Cross Theory of ... employment in the short run](https://reader031.vdocuments.mx/reader031/viewer/2022030411/5a9dac1b7f8b9a85318b552d/html5/thumbnails/25.jpg)
Expectations: Phillips Curve and SRAS
• Do shocks only matter?
• How does the economy moves from the short to the long
run position?
• The role of expectations!!!
• SRAS curve: Output is related to unexpected
movements in the price level
• Phillips curve: Unemployment is related to unexpected
movements in the inflation rate
+ - +eY Y P P eSRAS: ( )
- - +( )e nu u a ePhillips curve:
![Page 26: Macro theory: A quick review - ComUniTedibartolomeo.comunite.it/courses/polmon/slides/macro_review.pdf · Theory: Big view Keynesian Cross Theory of ... employment in the short run](https://reader031.vdocuments.mx/reader031/viewer/2022030411/5a9dac1b7f8b9a85318b552d/html5/thumbnails/26.jpg)
The Phillips Curve and SRAS equivalence
+ - +eY Y P P SRAS: ( )
- - +( )e nu u a ePhillips curve:
- -
+ - -
- - - + -
- - - -
- - +
- - +
( )
( )
( ) ( )
e
e
NP
P
e
e N
e N
Y Y P P
Y Y P P P P
u u
u u
u u
L
L
a
e
1 1
See next slide
![Page 27: Macro theory: A quick review - ComUniTedibartolomeo.comunite.it/courses/polmon/slides/macro_review.pdf · Theory: Big view Keynesian Cross Theory of ... employment in the short run](https://reader031.vdocuments.mx/reader031/viewer/2022030411/5a9dac1b7f8b9a85318b552d/html5/thumbnails/27.jpg)
Note
• YP and LP are potential output and (full) employment,
thus if Y=YP and L=LP, then 𝑢 =𝐿𝐹−𝐿
𝐿𝐹= 0.
• But in the long run there are some distortions thus the
long rate (natural) output (𝑌 or YN) and employment (𝐿𝑁)
are lower than potentials, and 𝑢𝑁 =𝐿𝐹−𝐿𝑁
𝐿𝐹> 0.
• Consider the Okun law: 𝑌 = 𝜃𝐿, then
• We have that
𝑌 − 𝑌 = 𝜃 𝐿 − 𝐿𝑁 = 𝜃 𝐿 − 𝐿𝐹 − 𝐿𝑁 + 𝐿𝐹 =
= 𝐿𝐹𝜃𝐿 − 𝐿𝐹
𝐿𝐹−
𝐿𝑁 − 𝐿𝐹
𝐿𝐹
• i.e.
𝑌 − 𝑌 = −𝐿𝐹𝜃 𝑢 − 𝑢𝑁
![Page 28: Macro theory: A quick review - ComUniTedibartolomeo.comunite.it/courses/polmon/slides/macro_review.pdf · Theory: Big view Keynesian Cross Theory of ... employment in the short run](https://reader031.vdocuments.mx/reader031/viewer/2022030411/5a9dac1b7f8b9a85318b552d/html5/thumbnails/28.jpg)
Key Questions
• How are expectations formed?
• How fast do they adjust?
• Two theories
– Adaptive expectations (Friedman, …)
– Rational expectations (Sargent, Lucas, …)
Phillips curve: e nu u - - +( ) b
![Page 29: Macro theory: A quick review - ComUniTedibartolomeo.comunite.it/courses/polmon/slides/macro_review.pdf · Theory: Big view Keynesian Cross Theory of ... employment in the short run](https://reader031.vdocuments.mx/reader031/viewer/2022030411/5a9dac1b7f8b9a85318b552d/html5/thumbnails/29.jpg)
Friedman and Phelps
• The Phillips curve states that depends on
– cyclical unemployment: the deviation of the actual
rate of unemployment from the natural rate
– supply shocks
• It can also depend on
– The expected inflation rate, e (for instance, in wage
bargaining operators are interested in the real wage
so AS should depend on the expected real wage)
– Note that as long as is the operational instrument of
the central bank, one can think that e should also
depend on the expectations about monetary policy!
• Friedman assume that e = -1 (lagged inflation)
![Page 30: Macro theory: A quick review - ComUniTedibartolomeo.comunite.it/courses/polmon/slides/macro_review.pdf · Theory: Big view Keynesian Cross Theory of ... employment in the short run](https://reader031.vdocuments.mx/reader031/viewer/2022030411/5a9dac1b7f8b9a85318b552d/html5/thumbnails/30.jpg)
Friedman Phillips Curve
• Friedman adjustment based on past price to form current
expectations, e = -1, it follows
• Consider an increase of money growth, not all producers
adjust prices (imperfect information, no one knows if the
increase in demand is relative to his product or to all), output and prices increase → short run
• But afterward, one that everybody realizes that the
observed increase in the demand was general all will adjust prices → long run
• As results output will finally not increase and inflation
increase will be instead permanent
- - - +
1( )nu u a e
![Page 31: Macro theory: A quick review - ComUniTedibartolomeo.comunite.it/courses/polmon/slides/macro_review.pdf · Theory: Big view Keynesian Cross Theory of ... employment in the short run](https://reader031.vdocuments.mx/reader031/viewer/2022030411/5a9dac1b7f8b9a85318b552d/html5/thumbnails/31.jpg)
• Friedman adjustment based on past price to form current
expectations
Y
P LRAS
SRAS1
SRAS2
AD1
AD2
2P
2Y
Friedman and adaptive expectation
P1
P3
A
B C
![Page 32: Macro theory: A quick review - ComUniTedibartolomeo.comunite.it/courses/polmon/slides/macro_review.pdf · Theory: Big view Keynesian Cross Theory of ... employment in the short run](https://reader031.vdocuments.mx/reader031/viewer/2022030411/5a9dac1b7f8b9a85318b552d/html5/thumbnails/32.jpg)
Expectation-driven shifts in the Phillips curve
• People adjust their expectations over time, so the
tradeoff only holds in the short run
u
nu
+1
e e
+2
e e
E.g., an increase in e
shifts the short-run P.C.
upward. So if the central
bank tries to increase ,
in the long run the effect
will be offset by an equal
change in e
A
B C
( )e nu u b - - +
![Page 33: Macro theory: A quick review - ComUniTedibartolomeo.comunite.it/courses/polmon/slides/macro_review.pdf · Theory: Big view Keynesian Cross Theory of ... employment in the short run](https://reader031.vdocuments.mx/reader031/viewer/2022030411/5a9dac1b7f8b9a85318b552d/html5/thumbnails/33.jpg)
Policy menu in the long-run
Natural rate of unemployment
LR Policy menu
0
Phillips Curve
B
A
YN 0
P2
P1
AD1
LRAS
AS/AD Model
P
AD2
u Y
![Page 34: Macro theory: A quick review - ComUniTedibartolomeo.comunite.it/courses/polmon/slides/macro_review.pdf · Theory: Big view Keynesian Cross Theory of ... employment in the short run](https://reader031.vdocuments.mx/reader031/viewer/2022030411/5a9dac1b7f8b9a85318b552d/html5/thumbnails/34.jpg)
1966
1971
19611962
1963
1967
1968
19691970
19651964
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 100
2
4
6
8
10
Inflation rate ()
Unemployment rate (u)
1972
19751981
1976
19781979
1980
1973
1974
1977
Short- and long-run Phillips curves
Long run Phillips curve
Short rune Phillips curves
A
![Page 35: Macro theory: A quick review - ComUniTedibartolomeo.comunite.it/courses/polmon/slides/macro_review.pdf · Theory: Big view Keynesian Cross Theory of ... employment in the short run](https://reader031.vdocuments.mx/reader031/viewer/2022030411/5a9dac1b7f8b9a85318b552d/html5/thumbnails/35.jpg)
The Lucas critique
• The Phillips curve states that depends on
– cyclical unemployment: the deviation of the actual
rate of unemployment (u) from the natural rate (uN)
– supply shocks, e
• Thus, - a u + C implies C= a uN + x + e
• Estimations from the past give unbiased values for a and
uN, but what does it occur if the shifter contains a policy
related term x( )?
• Estimating the theoretical equation (bold are estimated
parameters by OLS):
- a u - uN) + e
• We obtain a biased estimation as uN is correleted with
![Page 36: Macro theory: A quick review - ComUniTedibartolomeo.comunite.it/courses/polmon/slides/macro_review.pdf · Theory: Big view Keynesian Cross Theory of ... employment in the short run](https://reader031.vdocuments.mx/reader031/viewer/2022030411/5a9dac1b7f8b9a85318b552d/html5/thumbnails/36.jpg)
Neo-classical economics
• New Classical Theories were an attempt to explain the
apparent breakdown in the 1970s of the simple inflation-
unemployment trade-off predicted by the Phillips curve
– They argue that traditional models have assumed that
expectations are formed in naïve ways
– But naïve expectations are inconsistent with the
assumptions of microeconomics/rationality
– Expectations are rational (RE) so adjustment is
immediate
• No effect for monetary policy (unless surprise but then
usefulness or even counter-productive)
• But we do not need it as markets are efficient (on
average)
![Page 37: Macro theory: A quick review - ComUniTedibartolomeo.comunite.it/courses/polmon/slides/macro_review.pdf · Theory: Big view Keynesian Cross Theory of ... employment in the short run](https://reader031.vdocuments.mx/reader031/viewer/2022030411/5a9dac1b7f8b9a85318b552d/html5/thumbnails/37.jpg)
Neo-classical economics
• Micro-foundation → No Lucas critique (based on deep
parameters, which do not depend on the policy regime)
• Assumptions
– Perfect markets (flexible prices)
– Rational expectations hypothesis (REH)
• Expectations are rational so adjustment is immediate
– RE → disequilibrium exists only temporarily as a result of
random, unpredictable shocks
– No effect for monetary policy (unless surprise, but then it is
usefulness or even counter-productive)
– But, on average, all markets clear and there is natural
employment. No need for government stabilization
![Page 38: Macro theory: A quick review - ComUniTedibartolomeo.comunite.it/courses/polmon/slides/macro_review.pdf · Theory: Big view Keynesian Cross Theory of ... employment in the short run](https://reader031.vdocuments.mx/reader031/viewer/2022030411/5a9dac1b7f8b9a85318b552d/html5/thumbnails/38.jpg)
Rational expectations
• Naïve expectations: inconsistent with rationality as they
are associated with systematic errors
• The REH assumes that people use available information
efficiently, including how the economy works (Muth).
– People know the “true model” of the economy and that
they use this model to form their expectations of the future.
By “true” model we mean a model that is on average
correct in forecasting inflation
– People can make mistakes, but they do not make
systematic forecasting errors
• The forecast errors of expectations will be random with a
mean of zero, unrelated to those made in previous
periods, revealing no discernible pattern, and have the
lowest variance compared to other forecasting methods
![Page 39: Macro theory: A quick review - ComUniTedibartolomeo.comunite.it/courses/polmon/slides/macro_review.pdf · Theory: Big view Keynesian Cross Theory of ... employment in the short run](https://reader031.vdocuments.mx/reader031/viewer/2022030411/5a9dac1b7f8b9a85318b552d/html5/thumbnails/39.jpg)
From New Classicals to RBC and NK theory
• The New Classical Economics challenged Keynesian
theory, and stimulated the development of Real
Business Cycle (RBC) and New Keynesian (NK) Theory
• RBC theory accepts the REH, but views cycles arising in
frictionless, perfectly competitive economies with
complete markets. It argues that cycles arise through the
reactions of optimizing agents to real disturbances, such
as random changes in technology or productivity
• NK theory accepts the REH, but emphasizes the
importance of imperfect competition, costly or impeded
price adjustments, and externalities. It argues that
nominal shocks are the predominant cause of business
cycles