Beyond the DSGE Straitjacket

Mohammad Pesaran and Ronald Smith

No 5661, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Academic macroeconomics and the research department of central banks have come to be dominated by Dynamic, Stochastic, General Equilibrium (DSGE) models based on micro-foundations of optimising representative agents with rational expectations. We argue that the dominance of this particular sort of DSGE and the resistance of some in the profession to alternatives has become a straitjacket that restricts empirical and theoretical experimentation and inhibits innovation and that the profession should embrace a more flexible approach to macroeconometric modelling. We describe one possible approach.

Keywords: VARs; DSGE; macroeconometric models; long run theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C1 E1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 17 pages
Date: 2011-04
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Published - published in: Manchester School, 2011, 79 (s2), 5 - 16

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