Model Building in Economics: Its Purposes and Limitations (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781107673472)

Concern about the role and the limits of modeling has heightened after repeated questions were raised regarding the dependability and suitability of the models that were used in the run-up to the 2008 financial crash. In this book, Lawrence Boland provides an overview of the practices of and the problems faced by model builders to explain the nature of models, the modeling process, and the possibility for and nature of their testing. In a reflective manner, the author raises serious questions about the assumptions and judgments that model builders make in constructing models. In making his case, he examines the traditional microeconomics-macroeconomics separation with regard to how theoretical models are built and used and how they interact, paying particular attention to the use of equilibrium concepts in macroeconomic models and game theory and to the challenges involved in building empirical models, testing models, and using models to test theoretical explanations.

Author: Lawrence A. Boland
ISBN-10: 110767347X
ISBN-13: 9781107673472
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/15/2014
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.00d