Since the XIX century, technological progress has allowed commercial banks to create ever greater amounts of broad money and credit starting from a unit of monetary base. Crucially, however, at the very low frequencies the relative amounts of the two aggregates created out of a unit of base...

This paper examines the allocation of credit in a market in which borrowers have greater information concerning their own riskiness than do lenders. It illustrates (1) the allocation of credit is inefficientand at times can be improved by government intervention, and (2) small changes in the...

Contents: Introduction / Louis-Philippe Rochon and Hassan Bougrine -- Part 1: Money, income distribution and post-keynesian economics -- 1. Celebrating pioneers / Louis-Philippe Rochon and Hassan Bougrine -- 2. Understanding credit-money: Lavoie and seccareccia's contribution to monetary theory...

Funktionen des Finanzsektors -- Finanzsystem und Finanzierung -- Zentralbanken und Europäische Zentralbank -- Geldschöpfung im Finanzsektor -- Motive der Geldhaltung und makroökonomisches Grundmodell I -- Theorie der Zinsen -- Zinsstrukturtheorie -- Theorie der Banken -- Kreditrationierung:...