The lag procedures of Solow, var Alphen and Merkies and Maddala and Rao based on the Pascal distribution with a full range of the lag weights from zero to infinity can not detect the relevant (optimal) lag duration. Allowing truncation of the Pascal distribution and using the search process of...

The available concepts of an extended monetary base are seriously defective. They provide equal measurements for differently sized impulse forces of monetary policy and different measurements for equally sized impulse forces of monetary policy. A new concept is suggested that allows to avoid...

Weder bei FRIEDMAN selbst noch anderswo in der Literatur wird die FRIEDMANsche Geldnachfragefunktion explizit abgeleitet. Die portfoliotheoretische Fundierung seiner Geldnachfragefunktion bleibt im Dunkeln. Die vorliegende Studie soll diesen Mangel beheben. Besondere Aufmerksamkeit wird darin...