The Propagation of Macroeconomic Shocks: A Dynamic Model with Contracts and Imperfect Competition -- Variable Elasticity of Substitution and Economic Growth: Theory and Evidence -- Financial Intermediation and Economic Growth: A Semiparametric Approach -- Bridging the Gap: Linking Economics and Econometrics -- Revenue Smoothing in an ARIMA Framework: Evidence from the United States -- What VAR Tell us about DSGE Models? -- Ex ante Real Returns in Forward Market Speculation in the Inter-War Period: Evidence and Prediction -- Testing for Fractional Cointegration: The Relationship between Government Popularity and Economic Performance in the UK -- Non-stationarity Tests in Macroeconomic Time Series -- Seasonality, Nonstationarity and the Structural Forecasting of the Index of Industrial Production -- Complex Dynamics in Macroeconomics: A Novel Approach.