Preface pp.vii-viii Chapter 1. On the Competing Definitions of Economic Recession—And Their Unfortunate Political Overtones (John F. Gaski, University of Notre Dame, IN, US)pp.1-10 Chapter 2. The Factor-Shares Cycle and Its Relation to the Business Cycle (William A. Jackson, University of York, UK)pp.11-26 Chapter 3. Business Cycle Mechanisms on Markets with Perfect Competition (Monica Dobrescu, Academy of Economic Sciences, Bucharest, Romania)pp.27-50 Chapter 4. Technology and Business Cycles in the US (1957-2006): A Schumpeterian Approach (Konstantinos N. Konstantakis and Panayotis G. Michaelides, National Technical University of Athens, Athina, Greece)pp.51-68 Chapter 5. Coefficient Criterion for Shil’nikov Chaos: Application to a Simple Investment Model (Eiji Tsuzuki, Shunsuke Shinagawa and Tomohiro Inoue, Faculty of Economics, Chiba Keizai University, Chiba, and Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan)pp.69-86 Chapter 6. Monetary Policy Regimes and the Stock Market (Marcelle Chauvet and Chuanlei Sun, University of California Riverside, CA, US)pp.87-116 Chapter 7. An Austrian School Explanation of the Global Financial Crisis (Fu Lai Tony Yu, Department of Economics and Finance, Hong Kong Shue Yan University, Hong Kong)pp.117-130 Chapter 8. The Stock Market and Business Cycle Forecasting: The Wealth Effect of the Stock Market and the Housing Market (William Wei-Choun Yu, Economist, Anderson Forecast, Anderson School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA)pp.131-142 Chapter 9. Asymmetric Effects of Quantitative Easing: Evidence for the US Unemployment Rate (Georgios Karras, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL, US)pp.143-156 Chapter 10. Adjustment in the Market for Skills in Australia over the Business Cycle (Michael Corliss and Phil Lewis, Centre for Labour Market Research, University of Canberra, Australia)pp.157-178 Chapter 11. Uncertainty Shocks and Consumption: Evidence from the U.S. Data (Lilia Karnizova, University of Ottawa, ONT, Canada)pp.179-202 Chapter 12. Endogenous Money or Sticky Wages: A Bayesian Approach (Guangling Liu, Department of Economics, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa)pp.203-226 Chapter 13. Financial Intermediation and Monetary Policy: A Closer Look at Dealer Balance Sheets and Money Markets (Elizabeth Klee and Win Monroe, Federal Reserve Board)pp.227-246 Chapter 14. Modeling Intra and Inter Correlations in Credit Default Losses (M. Syrkin and A. Shirazi, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York, NY, US)pp.247-266 Index pp.267-269