The starting point of this project is the question of whether the macroeconomics of the German political establishment does indeed differ, as it often seems to do, from standard textbook macroeconomics: in particular, the former appears to neglect demand management (although it may be quite...

Islamic banking, where fixed interest contracts are banned, needs if it is to be successful to operate within a type of financial system in which bank-industry relationships are sufficiently close and pervasive for profit- and loss-sharing arrangements to be acceptable to both sides. However,...

This short paper use the perspective of the assignment problem to examine the evolution of the workings of monetary policy and the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of England over its first 25 years. It outlines how the Bank, and the MPC, came across additional possible objectives and...

Inländische Kreditexpansion, Vertrauen und der Devisenmarkt: das englische Pfund im Jahre 1976 Dieser Beitrag unternimmt eine eingehende Untersuchung der Gründe für die im Jahre 1976 stattgefundenen großen Schwankungen des Wechselkurses des englischen Pfundes, von denen behaupt werden kann,...