This paper evaluates the performance of a variety of structural VAR models in estimating the impact of credit supply shocks. Using a Monte-Carlo experiment, we show that identification based on sign and quantity restrictions and via external instruments is effective in recovering the underlying...

There has been a long discussion about the employment impact of minimum wages and this discussion has recently been renewed with the introduction of an economy-wide, binding minimum wage in Germany in 2015. In traditional reasoning, based on the allocational approach of modern labour market...

In his 2016 paper, Wakabayashi argues:(a) that old Keynesian economics, monetarism, and new Keynesian economics are all equally portfolio adjustment theories, or “stock” approaches to the quantity theory of money; (b) that post-war mainstream macroeconomics has been basically such portfolio...