Wenn ganze Finanzsystemen von radikalem Vertrauensentzug betroffen sind, so können dem nur Einrichtungen nachhaltig entgegentreten, die einen fast unbegrenzten Zugriff auf Ressourcen haben. Solche Einrichtungen können auch Selbsthilfegruppen sein, wie etwa ein Pool mächtiger Banken, wie das...

John Maynard Keynes composed The General Theory as a response to the Great Crash and Great Depression with all their devastating consequences for the US macro economy and financial markets, as well as the rest of the world. The role of expectations his new theory set out has been widely...

Domestic (but not foreign) borrowing became cheaper after the 17th century financial revolution. Trilemmas present a way of weighing the losses and gains from trade-offs from capital openness. The policy limitations on democracy resulting from capital openness may be treated analogously....

This paper investigates sentiment in the US economy from 1920 to 1934 using digitized articles from the Wall St Journal. We derive a monthly sentiment index and use a ten variable vector error correction model to identify sentiment shocks that are orthogonal to fundamentals. We show the timing...

Eine zentrale vertretende These der Ökonomie lautet: Die Aufhebung von Beschränkungen im Handel und Kapitalverkehr weltweit vermehrt die Wohlfahrt. Internationale Abkommen und Zollunionen verfolgen das Ziel des Freihandels. Auch das europäische Integrationsprojekt basiert mit dem...

Book description: Why is Europe's great monetary endeavor, the Euro, in trouble? A string of economic difficulties in Greece, Ireland, Spain, Italy, and other Eurozone nations has left observers wondering whether the currency union can survive. In this book, Markus Brunnermeier, Harold James,...

The lesson from previous episodes of trade reform is in part a story of political framing as well as a story of compensatory deals. Countries can calculate that they might lose out on the solution to one of the issues but gain on another.