Publish and Perish: Creative Destruction and Macroeconomic Theory

Jean-Bernard Chatelain and Kirsten Ralf

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Abstract: Macroeconomic theories of the 1980s faced accelerated depreciation when not sudden death. By contrast with econometrics and microeconomics and despite massive progress in access to data and the use of statistical softwares, macroeconomic theory appears not to be a cumulative science so far. When attempts are done to settle controversies by "nature" (testing the theories), they are designed to fail due to Gresham's law of selecting theories based on too many parameters, which are weakly or non-identified when testing them. Two examples are provided, one in growth theory and testing convergence, one in business cycles theory and testing inflation persistence.

Keywords: Macroeconomic theory; controversies; identification; economic growth; convergence; inflation persistence. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B22 B23 B41 C52 E31 O41 O47 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-02-13
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