Credit Spreads and their Determinants: An Empirical Analysis for Germany Analyses of credit spreads, i. e. the difference between the returns on corporate loans and on no-risk investments for periods equivalent in length, can provide useful information to both business managers and to external...

Monetäres Reinvermögen versus Geldmenge M3 – eine Entgegnung In ihrem Artikel "Monetäres Reinvermögen versus Geldmenge M3" legen Neumann und Weigand der deutschen Bundesbank nahe, zukünftig bei zinspolitischen Entscheidungen stärker die konjunkturellen Wirkungen ihrer Politik zu...

Interest Rate Rules and Money as an Indicator Variable The paper derives the monetary policy reaction function implied by using money as an indicator variable. It consists of an interest rate response to deviations of the inflation rate from target, to the change in the output gap, to money...