Many economists helped to lay the groundwork for the Federal Reserve. Some did important work analyzing the problems of the National Bank System and arguing for formation of a central bank in economics journals. At least as importantly, if not more so, some economists took an active role in the...

This essay argues that Knut Wicksell's trade cycle theory was an older version of real business cycle theory. Wicksell and modern real business cycle theorists both view technology shocks as the initial cause of business cycles. They also both explain money-income correlations as examples of...

This paper investigates the relationship between output variability and economic growth using a GARCH-M model with industrial production in postwar Great Britain. The data reveals a positive relationship between variability and growth rates. Copyright 1996 by Scottish Economic Society.