Remaining Puzzles and Neglected Issues in Macroeconomics

• This paper analyses the "chain" of transmission mechanisms of economic policy actions to financial markets, output and employment and, finally, unemployment -- in an attempt to identify "remaining puzzles" and "neglected issues" in macroeconomics. The paper emphasizes the consequences of fiscal and monetary policy actions on real variables, including real interest rates and real exchange rates. An attempt is made to explain why product demand shocks often tend to have faster effects on output and employment than on prices. The paper also discusses why demand-induced increases in output and employment are not systematically connected with a "reduction" in the product wage rate. The paper ends with a discussion of various supply-side considerations in macroeconomics.

Subject headings

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Ekonomi och näringsliv -- Nationalekonomi (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Economics and Business -- Economics (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Economics

Nationalekonomi

Publication and Content Type

vet (subject category)

rap (subject category)