James Cloyne, Ryland Thomas and Alex Tuckett.

The financial crisis has thrown up a huge number of empirical challenges for academic and professional economists.  The search is on for a framework with a rich enough variety of financial and real variables to examine both the financial shocks that caused the Great Recession and the unconventional policies, such as Quantitative Easing (QE), that were designed to combat it.   In a new paper we show how using an older structural econometric modelling approach can be used to provide insights into these questions in ways other models currently cannot.  So what are the advantages of going back to an older tradition of modelling?
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