Analysis of Debt to GDP Ratio with Microeconomic Foundations: Theoretical Basis for MMT Arguments

Decomposition of Debt - GDP Ratio for United Kingdom : 1984 - 2009 ∗

Most advanced nations today are witnessing a peace-time public debt surge that match post World War levels. This raises concerns about fiscal financing and liquidation of the stock of debt specially in the face of changing demographics. United Kingdom being one of the advanced nations with a high level of public debt and an aging population is facing similar issues of fiscal financing. This pap...

Does Macroeconomics Need Microeconomic Foundations?

I argue that it is microeconomics that needs foundations, not macroeconomics. Preferences need to be built on biology, and, in particular, on neuroscience. In contrast, macroeconomics could benefit from rationalizations of aggregate economic phenomena by non-equilibrium statistical physics. Special issue Reconstructing Macroeconomics JEL: B22, B41, C82, D87

Macroeconomic Evidence and Microeconomic Foundations

A Multi-Agent Systems Approach to Microeconomic Foundations of Macro

Social choice is studied in this paper as a mapping from information on utilities over states of the world to an ordering of those states of the world. The idea of using this type of information originates in the work of Sen and Roberts. This paper differs in that it uses theorems from analysis to derive its results in a straightforward manner. It also gives information on the way in which all ...

Microeconomic Foundations of the Demographic Dividend

The potential economic returns to the demographic transition are high. As countries move from a steady state with high mortality and high fertility to an equilibrium with low mortality and fewer children, lower dependency ratios, higher investment in human and physical capital as well as increased female labor force participation contribute to economic growth. In this paper, we analyze the demo...