Journal of Economic Literature
Book Reviews
2026-09-01
Lee E. Ohanian of University of California, Los Angeles reviews “The ABCs of RBCs: An Introduction to Dynamic Macroeconomic Models” by George McCandless,. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins “Provides a basic introduction to real business cycle and New Keynesian models. Discusses the basic Solow model; savings in an overlapping generations model; infinitely lived agents; recursive deterministic models; recursive stochastic models; Gary Hansen’s real business cycle model; linear quadratic dynamic programming; money--cash in advance; money in the utility function; the staggered pricing model; staggered wage setting; financial markets and monetary policy; and small open economy models. McCandless is an economist at the Central Bank of Argentina. Index.”