Bridging intermediate and advanced macroeconomics study, the authors use empirical examples to introduce students step-by-step to methods of formal macroeconomic analysis, helping them to develop a thorough understanding of fundamental models in growth theory and business cycle theory.

1: Macroeconomics for the long run and for the short run BOOK ONE: THE LONG RUN: ECONOMIC GROWTH, LONG RUN UNEMPLOYMENT, AND STRUCTURAL ECONOMIC POLICY 2: Some facts about prosperity and growth Part One: Work Horse Models for the Long Run 3: Capital accumulation and growth: the basic Solow model 4: Wealth accumulation and capital mobility: The Solow Model for a small open economy Part Two: Exogenous Technological Progress 5: Technology and growth: the Solow model with technological progress and growth accounting 6: Education and growth: the Solow model with human capital 7: Limits to growth? Resource scarcity and climate change Part Three: Endogenous Growth 8: Productive externalities and endogenous growth 9: R&D-based endogenous growth Part Four: Structural Unemployment 10: Some facts and introductory theory about unemployment 11: Efficiency wages and unemployment 12: Trade unions and unemployment BOOK TWO: THE SHORT RUN: ECONOMIC FLUCTUATIONS, SHORT RUN UNEMPLOYMENT, AND STABILIZATION POLICY 13: Business cycles: Facts 14: Business cycles: Costs Part Five: The Building Blocks for Short-Run Macroeconomics 15: Investment and asset prices 16: Consumption, income, interest rates, and wealth 17: Monetary policy and aggregate demand 18: Inflation, unemployment, and aggregate supply Part Six: Short-Run Macroeconomics for the Closed Economy 19: Explaining business cycles: aggregate supply and aggregate demand in action 20: Monetary and fiscal stabilization policy 21: Business cycles and stabilization policy with rational expectations 22: Limits to stabilization policy: credibility and uncertainty Part Seven: Short-Run Macroeconomics for the Open Economy 23: Aggregate demand and aggregate supply in the open economy 24: The open economy with fixed exchange rates 25: The open economy with flexible exchange rates and the choice of exchange rate regime 26: The economics of monetary union and the European sovereign debt crisis

Peter Birch Sørensen is Professor of Economics at the University of Copenhagen. He is a former Assistant Governor and Chief Economist of the Danish central bank. He has also served as chairman of the Danish Economic Councils, the Danish Productivity Commission, and the Danish Council on Climate Change, and as a consultant for the OECD, the European Commission and the International Monetary Fund. Hans Jørgen Whitta-Jacobsen is Professor of Economics at the University of Copenhagen and former Vice Dean at the university's Faculty of Social Sciences. He has served as chairman of the Danish Economic Councils, as consultant for the Danish government on tax reform and as member of the Danish Commission for Retirement, Attrition and Pensions.

Provides ideal coverage for intermediate students looking to develop a more advanced level of understanding of macroeconomics Focuses on how to use and analyze elementary models by steadily working through the mathematical derivations one step at a time, ensuring that students fully understand each progression Real-world policy and empirical data is brought into focus alongside model predictions, allowing students to scrutinize the models they use and the connected policy issues Each chapter is accompanied by a number of guided exercises to support and then stretch students' analytical skills Also available as an e-book with functionality, navigation features, and links that offer extra learning support