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Finance 30220 Macroeconomic Analysis
"...it is the econometric tradition, or more precisely, the 'theory of economic policy' based on this tradition, which is in need of major revision. More particularly, I shall argue that the features which lead to success in short term forecasting are unrelated to quantitative policy evaluation, that the major econometric models are designed to perform the former task only, and that simulations using these models can, in principle, provide no useful information as to the actual consequences of alternative economic policies." -Robert E. Lucas Jr. ("Econometric Policy Evaluations: A Critique", 1976
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