In assessing Alexander Swoboda's great influence on economics, two themes stand out: the determinants of global inflation, particularly in the 1970s, and the choice of an exchange rate regime consistent with domestic monetary and fiscal policies. Although seemingly narrowly focused on China, our...

Seit Einführung des Euro im Jahr 1999 ist die Geldpolitik der Europäischen Zentralbank sehr locker. Die Leitzinsen sind auf und unter null gefallen. Die umfangreichen Kredite an Geschäftsbanken und Anleihekaufprogramme haben die Bilanz der Europäischen Zentralbank deutlich ausgeweitet. Das...

The currency reform on 20 June 1948, together with a comprehensive liberalisation of prices and the implementation of monopoly control, formed the basis for the West German economic miracle. From then on, the market principles formulated by Walter Eucken und implemented by Ludwig Erhard became...

The pressure on the Chinese government to appreciate the Chinese yuan is large. Since the start of the dollar's sustained depreciation in early 2002 the western industrialized countries including Japan argue that China's fixed peg is equivalent to a mercantilist trade policy. From the Chinese...

The paper identifies based on the monetary overinvestment (malinvestment) theories by Wicksell (1898), Mises (1912) and Hayek (1929) monetary policy mistakes in large industrial countries issuing international currencies. It its argued that a benign neglect towards monetary policy reform in a...

Der Beitrag befasst sich mit der ultra-lockeren Geldpolitik als Ursache für Finanzmarktblasen, anhaltende Stagnation und wachsende Ungleichheit. Es wird auf der Grundlage der Überinvestitionstheorie von Mises (1912) und Hayek (1931) argumentiert, dass es zu Überinvestition und Spekulation...

The paper analyses the role of monetary policy for cyclical movements of investment and asset markets in East Asia and Europe based on a Mises-Hayek overinvestment framework. It is shown how the gradual global decline of interest rates has triggered wandering overinvestment cycles in Japan,...