On Time: Lectures on Models of Equilibrium (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521119764)

These two lectures explore how time is modeled in theoretical analyses of individual industries and of the entire economy. The atemporal Marshallian model is contrasted with an explicit time model with uncertainty about costs at the firm level. The book also examines data on job creation and job destruction; price setting behavior in monopolistic competition and costly search models; data on price changes; and both cyclical and seasonal data on the entire economy. With a focus on the command over purchasing power, the Arrow-Debreu and Hicksian ISLM models are compared with a number of explicit time models.

Author: Peter A. Diamond
ISBN-10: 0521119766
ISBN-13: 9780521119764
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/17/2009
Pages: 136
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.40w x 0.20d