During the late-1940s and the early-1950s Milton Friedman favored a rule under which fiscal policy would be used to generate changes in the money supply with the aim of stabilizing output at full employment. He believed that the economy is inherently unstable because of endogenous movements in...

The Great Depression was the most devastating and destructive economic event to afflict the global economy since the beginning of the twentieth century. What, then, were the origins of the Great Depression and what have we learned about the appropriate policy responses to economic depressions...

Die Wirksamkeit der Wirtschaftspolitik in der Hickschen Analyse: Eine Vertiefung Die Schnelligkeit, mit der die Makropolitik Einfluß auf die Konjunktur ausübt, ist eine Schlüsselbetrachtung in gegenwärtigen politischen Diskussionen. Bliner und Solow argumentieren: "Die Hauptstreitpunkte der...

Die Wirksamkeit der Wirtschaftspolitik in der Hicksschen Analyse: Eine Erwiderung Es ist bereits gezeigt worden, daß - in einem System positiv geneigter IS-Kurven - je geringer die Zinsempfindlichkeit der Geldnachfrage ist, desto größer die Geschwindigkeit der Anpassung an exogene...

Inflationsfinanzierung und Geldnachfrage in Griechenland In diesem Aufsatz werden die Auswirkungen adaptiver und rationaler Preiserwartungen auf die Geldnachfrage in Griechenland geschätzt. Im Gegensatz zu den Ergebnissen früherer Untersuchungen, in denen adaptive Preiserwartungen der...

The method of instrumental variables (IV) and the generalized method of moments (GMM), and their applications to the estimation of errors-in-variables and simultaneous equations models in econometrics, require data on a sufficient number of instrumental variables that are both exogenous and...

We develop a procedure for removing four major specification errors from the usual formulation of binary choice models. The model that results from this procedure is different from the conventional probit and logit models. This difference arises as a direct consequence of our relaxation of the...

This paper contributes to the literature on the estimation of causal effects by providing an analytical formula for individual specific treatment effects and an empirical methodology that allows us to estimate these effects. We derive the formula from a general model with minimal restrictions,...

Was the high inflation of the 1970s mostly due to incomplete information about the structure of the economy (an unavoidable mistake as suggested by Orphanides, 2000)? Or, to weak reaction to expected inflation and/or excessive policy activism that led to indeterminacies (a policy mistake, a...