Econometrics, macroeconomics, and economic policy : selected papers / Carl F. Christ.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. History of the Cowles Commission 1932-1952 -- 2. Early Progress in Estimating Quantitative Economic Relationships in America -- 3. The Cowles Commission's Contributions to Econometrics at Chicago, 1939-1955 -- 4. A Test of an Econometric Model for the United States, 1921-1947 -- 5. Judging the Performance of Econometric Models of the U.S. Economy -- 6. Decomposition of the Expected Squared Error of Forecast from a Linear Forecasting Equation -- 7. Assessing Applied Econometric Results -- 8. A Short-Run Aggregate-Demand Model of the Interdependence and Effects of Monetary and Fiscal Policies with Keynesian and Classical Interest Elasticities -- 9. A Simple Macroeconomic Model with a Government Budget Restraint -- 10. Monetary and Fiscal Influences on U.S. Money Income, 1891-1970 -- 11. Some Dynamic Theory of Macroeconomic Policy Effects on Income and Prices under the Government Budget Restraint -- 12. On Fiscal and Monetary Policies and the Government Budget Restraint --

13. Changes in the Financing of the Federal Debt and their Impact on the U.S. Economy, 1948-90 -- 14. The Financing of the Government Budget in Japan and its Relation to Macroeconomic Variables -- 15. Rules vs. Discretion in Monetary Policy -- 16. When is Free Banking More Stable Than Regulated Banking? -- 17. Pitfalls in Macroeconomic Model Building -- 18. Economics and Public Policy -- List of publications of Carl F. Christ.