Showing 1 - 10 of 112
considered by one school of economic thought (monetarism) as a reflection of the instability of the value of nominal money …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412593
Europe in the 1990s. Key words: central banking, central bank independence, Ordoliberalism, Keynesianism, monetarism JEL …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561053
J.M. Keynes and F.A. Hayek had different economic ideas even though both were subjectivists seriously engaged with … between their philosophical ideas. Keynes was a Cartesian rationalist and justificationist; Hayek a critical rationalist and … non-justificationist. We draw on Keynes's "A Treatise on Probability," Hayek's "The Sensory Order," and other works to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076652
SAVING DOES NOT EQUAL INVESTMENT John Maynard Keynes confused economists and politicians all over the world when he … may think that Keynes explained about how saving money is used in the same amount either to invest by savers or by … borrowers. But this is not what he meant. Keynes merely wrote that saving is residual. Residual from what? This paper shows that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126256
Keynes’ General Theory provides an interesting metaphor for asset markets: they are like newspaper competitions where … closest to the average preferences. Keynes did not explicitly formalise the metaphor but his observations about the bond … of decision rules from the suggestions in the General Theory and Keynes' QJE(1937) paper, and introduces a concept of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126429
, Keynes, Minsky, and J. K. Galbraith are discussed and evaluated, with an emphasis on the role of cash flow. Some of these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126435
The belief that equality of demand and supply determines price and clears the market is universal. Shockingly, this belief is unfounded. It contradicts macro’s claim that equality of demand and supply determines output. It contradicts (new) monetary theory, which claims that equality of demand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413280
The paper reviews the basic statistical methods for estimation of the deviations from the production potential of the economy. The emphasis is put on the a-theoretical approaches. To illustrate the application of the models data for the Bulgarian economy have been used, and on the basis of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076707
Observed budget balances are an imperfect indicator of the fiscal policy stance, because fluctuations in economic activity induce automatic changes in the balance, hence the use of cyclically-adjusted balances (CAB). However, this paper shows that CABs (as measured through one of the two methods...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126008
Compared to its central role in policy discussions in the United States and most other developed countries, the reliability of the measurement of the output gap has attracted relatively little academic study. Furthermore, both the academic literature and the debate among practitioners have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126356