Introduction to the Symposium on Growth, Fluctuations, and Sunspots: Confronting the Data
介绍了一个研讨会论文集，这些论文在无限期界代理人均衡模型中证明了不确定性和太阳黑子的理论与经验可行性，通过引入外部性或垄断竞争来偏离标准竞争框架，部分关注经济波动，部分关注长期增长。
The papers in this symposium demonstrate the theoretical as well as the empirical plausibility of indeterminacy and of sunspots in equilibrium models with infinitely lived agents. They depart from the standard competitive framework because of the presence of externalities or of monopolistic competition. Some focus on business fluctuations while others address long-run growth. The second part of the Introduction presents a general unifying framework to identify the structure that is common to the papers of the symposium. Journal of Economic Literature Classification Numbers: E00, E3, O40.