Seit den frühen 2000er Jahren liegen die Leitzinssätze insgesamt meist unter den von der Taylor-Regel implizierten Niveaus, und zwar sowohl in fortgeschrittenen als auch in aufstrebenden Volkswirtschaften. Dieser Befund lässt darauf schliessen, dass die Geldpolitik in den letzten zehn Jahren...

Is there a link between loose monetary conditions, credit growth, house price booms, and financial instability? This paper analyzes the role of interest rates and credit in driving house price booms and busts with data spanning 140 years of modern economic history in the advanced economies. We...

How have house prices evolved in the long-run? This paper presents annual house price indices for 14 advanced economies since 1870. Based on extensive data collection, we are able to show for the first time that house prices in most industrial economies stayed constant in real terms from the...

Policy rates have on aggregate been below the levels implied by the Taylor rule for most of the period since the early 2000s in both advanced and emerging market economies. This finding suggests that monetary policy has probably been systematically accommodative for most of the past decade. The...