| Author Name | YOSHIKAWA Hiroshi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) |
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| Creation Date/NO. | April 2012 12-E-025 |
| Research Project | Issues Faced by Japan's Economy and Economic Policy: Demand, productivity, and sustained growth |
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Abstract
Standard micro-founded macroeconomics starts with optimization exercises to derive the precise behavior of the representative agent and regards the macroeconomy as a homothetic enlargement of a micro agent. This paper takes a different approach and presents a new micro-foundation for Keynesian economics. The key concept is stochastic macro-equilibrium, which is a natural extension of the labor search theory.
