What’s wrong with the DSGE models
Blanchard explains why theory models and policy models should go their separate ways.
The Need for Different Classes of Macroeconomic Models
By: Olivier Blanchard
Structural Econometric Models versus DSGE models
Blanchard joins calls for Structural Econometric Models to be brought in from the cold
By: Simon Wren-Lewis
Williamson disagrees with Blanchard as he argues that for quantitative models to be taken seriously by policymakers they need to better reflect the relevant theory.
What’s a Macro Model Good For?
By: Stephen Williamson
Muellbauer argues that unrealistic micro-foundations for the behavior of households have contributed to the failure of DSGE models.
Macroeconomics and consumption: Why central bank models failed and how to repair them
By: John Muellbauer
…as a result behavioral models, or more specifically non-Rational Expectations models, are gaining traction especially when it comes to policy analysis.
Cracks in the anti-behavioral dam?
By: Noah Smith
Recent research
Minford, Wickens and Xu show how to test only part of a DSGE model, leaving aside what appears to be marginal, in order to understand whether the model features the right ingredients.
Testing part of a DSGE model by Indirect Inference
Authors: Patrick Minford, Michael Wickens and Yongdeng Xu
From: Cardiff University
The Fed uses a SEM model, the Bank of England a DSGE model and the Bank of Finland uses Aino.
The Aino 2.0 Model
Authors: Juha Kilponen, Seppo Orjasniemi, Antti Ripatti, Fabio Verona
From: Bank of Finland
Is there a crisis in economics?
Subacchi thinks there is since economists missed both the 2008 financial crisis and misjudged Brexit’s impact on the UK economy. As a remedy, she proposes: a) economists to become accountable for their views and vested interests; and b) non-mainstream research to be included in economic debates.
Economic Crises and the Crisis of Economics
By: Paola Subacchi
Miles, a former member of the Monetary Policy Committee at the Bank of England, disagrees with Subacchi and argues that predicting a crisis is tantamount to predicting winning lottery ticket numbers.
Andy Haldane is wrong: there is no crisis in Economics
By: David Miles
From: FT
Wren-Lewis in this article strikes a middle-ground.
Miles on Haldane on Economics in Crises
By: Simon Wren-Lewis