Books in the National Bureau of Economic Research Macroeconomics Annual series

Focuses on issues in contemporary macroeconomics, pushing the frontiers of macroeconomic work in areas ranging from short-run macroeconomic fluctuations to exchange rates, financial regulation, and political economy. This volume features several papers that illuminate the causes of the recent financial crisis.

Offers two papers that deal with the economic performance: one analyzes the evolution of aggregate productivity before, during, and after the Great Recession, and the other characterizes the factors that have contributed to slow economic growth following the Great Recession and other papers tackles the role of information in business cycles.