TY - BOOK AU - Kehoe,Patrick AU - Chari,Varadarajan V. ED - National Bureau of Economic Research. TI - Modern Macroeconomics in Practice: How Theory is Shaping Policy T2 - NBER working paper series PY - 2006/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - National Bureau of Economic Research N1 - August 2006; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers N2 - Theoretical advances in macroeconomics made in the last three decades have had a major influence on macroeconomic policy analysis. Moreover, over the last several decades, the United States and other countries have undertaken a variety of policy changes that are precisely what macroeconomic theory of the last 30 years suggests. The three key developments that have shaped macroeconomic policy analysis are the Lucas critique of policy evaluation due to Robert Lucas, the time inconsistency critique of discre-tionary policy due to Finn Kydland and Edward Prescott, and the development of quantitative dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models following Finn Kydland and Edward Prescott UR - https://www.nber.org/papers/w12476 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w12476 ER -