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The failure of ECB monetary policy from a Mises-Hayek perspective

Schnabl, Gunther - 2017

The paper analyses the common European monetary policy based on a Mises-Hayek overinvestment framework, which is combined with the theory of optimum currency areas. It shows how since the turn of the millennium a too expansionary monetary policy contributed to unsustainable overinvestment booms...

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Limits of monetary policy autonomy by East Asian debtor central banks

Löffler, Axel; Schnabl, Gunther; Schobert, Franziska - 2012

thereby increase surplus liquidity. East Asian central banks with more flexible exchange rate regimes also face surplus … liquidity that mainly emanates from past accumulation of foreign reserves. We show based on an augmented Barro …-Gordon-type central bank loss function that in both cases surplus liquidity limits monetary policy autonomy. In case of fixed exchange …

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Regional heterogeneity, the rise of public debt and monetary policy in post-bubbles Japan : lessons for the EMU

Fischer, Raphael; Schnabl, Gunther - 2016

Both Japan and parts of the European Monetary Union have experienced boom and bust in stock and real estate markets … public debt and monetary policy in the context of crisis. It is shown for Japan that the attempts to maintain regional … expansion. Econometric estimations show that in Japan regional redistribution of funds has ensured homogeneous living conditions …

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Cyclical fiscal policy, output volatility, and economic growth

Badinger, Harald (contributor) - 2008

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Reasons for the demise of interest : savings glut and secular stagnation or central bank policy?

Mayer, Thomas; Schnabl, Gunther - 2019

In this paper we compare the Keynesian, neoclassical and Austrian explanations for low interest rates and sluggish growth. From a Keynesian and neoclassical perspective low interest rates are attributed to ageing societies, which save more for the future (global savings glut). Low growth is...

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National representation in multinational institutions : the case of the European Central Bank

Badinger, Harald; Nitsch, Volker - 2011

Multinational institutions face an important trade-off when hiring personnel. On the one hand, hiring decisions are based, as in most organizations, on a candidate's professional qualifications. On the other hand, multinational institutions often aim for broad national representation. Reviewing...

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China's exchange rate impasse and the weak U.S. dollar

McKinnon, Ronald Ian (contributor); … - 2008

excess liquidity reminiscent of the global inflation generated by the weak dollar in the 1970s. -- Inflation ; exchange rates …

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What do central bankers do? : evidence from the European Central Bank's Executive Board

Badinger, Harald; Nitsch, Volker - 2019

This paper examines how managers at the top of a public institution, central bank executives, allocate their working time. Using detailed information from personal diaries of the six members of the European Central Bank's Executive Board over a period of two years, we codify and analyze more...

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