Kernelement der neuen Finanzwissenschaft ist die entscheidungstheoretische Fundierung von Verhaltensfunktionen. Gerade gegen diese Fundierung auf der Basis individueller Optimierungskalküle richtet sich allerdings schon immer der Vorwurf der Realitätsferne. Diese Arbeit untersucht, ob man die...

Kernelement der neuen Finanzwissenschaft ist die entscheidungstheoretische Fundierung von Verhaltensfunktionen. Gerade gegen diese Fundierung auf der Basis individueller Optimierungskalküle richtet sich allerdings schon immer der Vorwurf der Realitätsferne. Diese Arbeit untersucht, ob man die...

This paper challenges the institutional sclerosis view of the German crisis according to which rigid labour markets and generous welfare state institutions have driven Germany into its position as „Europe’s sick man“. In general, the view is not convincing, because the underlying...

This paper traces the euro zone’s inadequate macroeconomic performance in recent years back to the predominance of a restrictive macroeconomic policy mix based on a ‘new monetarist’ approach to economic policy. An approach based on a (post-)Keynesian analysis is presented as a growth and...

The paper fundamentally challenges the institutional sclerosis explanation of the present German economic stagnation. Instead, we present a macroeconomic explanation focusing on the combined effects of too restrictive monetary policies, too restrictive and sometimes pro- cyclical fiscal policies...

Based on a post-Keynesian model of the relationship between wages, prices and employment, this paper begins by studying the extent to which unit labour cost trends have been responsible for disinflation and deflationary tendencies in Germany and Europe. Thereafter, the reasons for the...