The Endogenization of Government Behaviour in Macroeconomic Models

0 What this Book is All About.- 1 The Traditional Theory of Economic Policy.- 1.1 The theory of economic policy.- 1.2 Empirical reaction function studies.- 1.3 Targets and instruments.- 1.4 Macroeconometric modelbuilding.- 1.5 The preference function of the policy maker.- 1.6 Conclusions.- 2 The Impact of Politics, a Survey of the Literature.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 The median voter model.- 2.3 Voting and popularity functions.- 2.4 Government behaviour.- 2.5 The influence of the bureaucracy.- 2.6 Interest groups.- 2.7 The Marxist approach.- 2.8 Conclusions.- 3. The Interest Function Approach.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 Outline of the interest function approach.- 3.3 Discussion.- 3.4 Summary and conclusions.- 4. The Endogenization of State Expenditure and Taxation in a Simple Keynesian Model.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 The behaviour of the state.- 4.3 A static Keynesian politico-economic model.- 4.4 Some dynamic aspects of the model.- 4.5 Summary.- 5. An Application to the Netherlands.- 5.1 Introduction.- 5.2 Data and empirical application.- 5.3 Conclusions.- Appendix More on the data.- 6. A Dynamic Version of the Model with an Endogenous Social Power Structure.- 6.1 Introduction.- 6.2 General dynamics.- 6.3 A special case.- 6.4 Conclusion.- 7. Towards A Politico-Economic Theory of Social Security.- 7.1 Introduction.- 7.2 The behaviour of the state; social security policies.- 7.3 Social security in a complete politico-economic model.- 7.4 Empirical application.- 7.5 Conclusion.- Appendix Data for application of the model including the social security system.- 8. Towards a behavioural-theoretic Analysis of Budget deficits.- 8.1 Introduction.- 8.2 The model.- 8.3 Discussion.- 8.4 The budget deficit over time; some preliminary results.- 8.5 Conclusion.- 9. Epilogue.- Notes.- References.- Author Index.