Innovations in Macroeconomics

This book presents a new link between monetary analysis and growth modeling in open economies. It considers structural change, innovations and growth from a new perspective.

Modern macroeconomics suffers from an unclear link between short-term Keynesian analysis and long-term growth modelling. Moreover, product and process innovations have been only partially integrated. The analysis suggests new approaches to innovations in open economies in many ways, including the Schumpeterian Mundell-Fleming model and new monetary growth models. A specific focus is on the role of innovations for output, employment and exchange rate developments. A new link between monetary analysis and growth modelling in open economies is presented. Structural change, innovations and growth are considered from a new perspective. Energy innovation dynamics are also considered. With respect to economic policy - in particular innovation policy - the analysis implies major changes, concerning both EU countries and other leading OECD economies.

Novel approaches to innovation dynamics and growth in open economies New monetary and non-monetary growth models Discussion of rational innovation policies in OECD countries Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext
Paul J. J. Welfens, geb. 1957 in Düren, Studium der Volkswirtschaftslehre in Wuppertal, Duisburg und Paris, Promotion 1985, Habilitation1989. Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Volkswirtschaftslehre - Schwerpunkt Makroökonomische Theorie und Politik an der Bergischen Universität Wuppertal; Präsident des Europäischen Instituts für Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen (EIIW); Jean-Monnet-Professor für Europäische Wirtschaftsintegration; zuvor Distinguished Research Fellow am AICGS/The Johns Hopkins University, Professor an der Universität Münster bzw. Potsdam, Visiting Alfred Grosser Professor Sciences Po, Paris.

Inhalt
Globalization, Specialization and Innovation Dynamics.- Savings, Investment and Growth: New Approaches for Macroeconomic Modelling.- Economic Integration, Technological Progress and Growth.- Impact of the Real Exchange Rate on Trade, Structural Change and Growth.- Macroeconomic Aspects of Opening Up, Unemployment, Growth and Transition.- Productivity Shocks, Innovations, Stock Market Dynamics and Growth.- Innovation Dynamics and Optimum Growth.- Trade, Structural Change and Growth in an Open Monetary Economy.- Innovations in the Digital Economy: Promotion of R&D and Growth in Open Economies.- EU Innovation Policy: Analysis and Critique.- Financial Market Integration, Interest Rates and Economic Development.- Natural Resources, Oil Prices and Innovation Dynamics.