Muss ökonomische Theorie evolutorisch sein, weil auch ihr Erkenntnisobjekt »wesensmäßig« evolutorisch ist? Der Tagungsband des Ausschusses für die Geschichte der Wirtschaftswissenschaften geht der dogmenhistorischen Einordnung des Themas »Ökonomie und Evolution« nach. Die Beiträge...

»The Formation of Business Cycle Research in the Early 20th Century«: The formation of research on macroeconomic fluctuations in the early 20th century was characterised by a debate on key questions: is the business cycle a problem of applied economic theory, or does it require a fundamentally...

Im Jahr 1873, vor 150 Jahren, wurde der Verein für Socialpolitik gegründet. Aus diesem Anlass beschäftigte sich der Vereinsausschuss für die Geschichte der Wirtschaftswissenschaft im Juni 2022 mit zentralen Themen der Vereinsgeschichte. Analysiert wird die Rolle von Gustav Schmoller als...

Hajo Riese (FU Berlin) was a pioneer of the "Berlin School of Monetary Keynesianism", particularly in the 1980s and 1990s. His research work was based on the roots of monetary theory in the work of J. M. Keynes, with a particular focus on the theory of capital and interest rates. While in Keynes...

The growth and deepening of financial markets entailed the expectation that the bank lending channel of monetary policy transmission would lose its importance. The paper explains why, on the contrary, the banking sector has become a major locus of origination and amplification of macro-financial...

Whereas in former times, the 'Chicago View' in monetary policy stood for the Quantity Theory and money supply control, it is now the centre of unconventional approaches in macro theory. The Neo-Fisherian proposal suggests, in the case of low inflation and nominal interest rates pegged to the...

Old OCA theory recommends to unite homogenous countries so that their macroeconomic interrelations do not pose severe stabilisation problems. New OCA theory rightly criticizes the 1960s flavour of the old approach and believes in the endogenous emergence of an OCA if countries use the facilities...

A hybrid standard macro model is supplemented by an explicit analysis of bank lending, based on a five-position aggregative balance sheet. In the model's two versions credit supply is based on a leverage targeting rule or on simple optimisation, taking into account lending risks and funding...

Die Staatsschuldenkrise einiger Länder in der EWU ist letztlich doch eine Währungskrise. Nur im gemeinsamen Währungsraum war es überhaupt möglich, die Schuldaufnahme stark auszuweiten. Andererseits treten bei Zweifeln an der finanziellen Solidität von Schuldnerstaaten kumulative...

Economists in the public are accused of propagating highly professional, but unrealistic theories that mislead market agents and policy makers to place too much confidence in rational behaviour and market equilibrium. The paper analyses to what extent the US banking crisis and the euro crisis...