Rational Expectations and Econometric Practice
Volume 2
A comprehensive collection of readings published in the literature on rational expectactions in macroeconomics, including Sargent's "Classical Macroeconomic Model" as well as the original papers by Muth that started the rational expectations literature.
A comprehensive collection of readings published in the literature on rational expectactions in macroeconomics, including Sargent's "Classical Macroeconomic Model" as well as the original papers by Muth that started the rational expectations literature.
Assumptins about how people form expectations for the future shape the properties of any dynamic economic model. To make economic decisions in an uncertain environment people must forecast such variables as future rates of inflation, tax rates, government subsidy schemes and regulations. The doctrine of rational expectations uses standard economic methods to explain how those expectations are formed.
This work collects the papers that have made significant contributions to formulating the idea of rational expectations. Most of the papers deal with the connections between observed economic behavior and the evaluation of alternative economic policies.
Robert E. Lucas, Jr., is professor of economics at the University of Chicago. Thomas J. Sargent is professor of economics at the University of Minnesota and adviser to the Federal Reserve Bank of Minnesota.