Acknowledgments -- Preface to the third edition -- Part I The imperialism of recursive methods -- Chapter 1 Overview -- Part II Tools -- Chapter 2 Time Series -- Chapter 3 Dynamic Programming -- Chapter 4 Practical Dynamic Programming -- Chapter 5 Linear Quadratic Dynamic Programming -- Chapter 6 Search, Matching, and Unemployment -- Part III Competitive equilibria and applications -- Chapter 7 Recursive (Partial) Equilibrium -- Chapter 8 Equilibrium with Complete Markets -- Chapter 9 Overlapping Generations Models -- Chapter 10 Ricardian Equivalence -- Chapter 11 Fiscal Policies in a Growth Model. Chapter 12 Recursive Competitive EquilibriaChapter 13 Asset Pricing Theory -- Chapter 14 Asset Pricing Empirics -- Chapter 15 Economic Growth -- Chapter 16 Optimal Taxation with Commitment -- Part IV The savings problem and Bewley models -- Chapter 17 Self-Insurance -- Chapter 18 Incomplete Markets Models -- Part V Recursive contracts -- Chapter 19 Dynamic Stackelberg Problems -- Chapter 20 Insurance Versus Incentives -- Chapter 21 Equilibrium without Commitment -- Chapter 22 Optimal Unemployment Insurance -- Chapter 23 Credible Government Policies, I -- Chapter 24 Credible Government Policies, II. Chapter 25 Two Topics in International TradePart VI Classical monetary and labor economics -- Chapter 26 Fiscal-Monetary Theories of Inflation -- Chapter 27 Credit and Currency -- Chapter 28 Equilibrium Search and Matching -- Chapter 29 Foundations of Aggregate Labor Supply -- Part VII Technical appendices -- Appendix A. Functional Analysis -- Appendix B. Linear projections and hidden Markov models -- References -- Subject Index -- Author Index -- Matlab Index.