Specificity and the Macroeconomics of Restructuring

Free Download Ricardo J Caballero, "Specificity and the Macroeconomics of Restructuring "
English | ISBN: 0262033623 | 2007 | 333 pages | PDF | 4 MB
A proposal that the notion of specificity-the idea that factors of production are not interchangeable-can provide a unified framework to analyze and understand a wide variety of macroeconomic phenomena stemming from the transactional environment and microeconomic restructuring.

The core mechanism that drives economic growth in modern market economies is massive microeconomic restructuring and factor reallocation-the Schumpeterian creative destruction by which new technologies replace the old. At the microeconomic level, restructuring is characterized by countless decisions to create and destroy production arrangements. The efficiency of these decisions depends in large part on the existence of sound institutions that provide a proper transactional environment. In this groundbreaking book, Ricardo Caballero proposes a unified framework to analyze and understand a wide variety of macroeconomic phenomena stemming from limitations, especially institutional, that hinder these adjustments.
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