This introduction to normal equilibrium modelling takes an built-in method to the evaluation of macroeconomics and finance. It supplies college students, practitioners, and policymakers with an simply accessible set of instruments that can be utilized to research a variety of financial phenomena. Key options: • Provides a constant framework for understanding dynamic financial fashions • Introduces key ideas in finance in a discrete time setting • Develops easy recursive method for analyzing quite a lot of issues in a dynamic, stochastic surroundings • Sequentially builds up the evaluation of consumption, manufacturing, and funding fashions to review their implications for allocations and asset costs • Reviews enterprise cycle evaluation and the enterprise cycle implications of financial and worldwide fashions • Covers newest analysis on asset pricing in overlapping generations fashions and on fashions with borrowing constraints and transaction prices • Includes end-of-chapter workout routines permitting readers to observe their understanding of every subject Online assets can be found at www.cambridge.org/altug_labadie