This paper analyzes the effects of several policy instruments to mitigate financial bubbles generated in the banking sector. We augment a New Keynesian macroeconomic framework by endogenizing boundedly-rational expectations on asset values of loan portfolios and allow for interbank trading. We...

This paper analyzes the effects of several policy instruments for mitigating financial bubbles generated in the banking sector. We augment a New Keynesian macroeconomic framework by endogenizing boundedly-rational expectations on asset values of loan portfolios, allow for interbank trading and...

This paper analyzes the effects of several policy instruments to mitigate financial bubbles generated in the banking sector. We augment a New Keynesian macroeconomic framework by endogenizing boundedly-rational expectations on asset values of loan portfolios and allow for interbank trading. We...

This paper analyzes the effects of several policy instruments for mitigating financial bubbles generated in the banking sector. We augment a New Keynesian macroeconomic framework by endogenizing boundedly-rational expectations on asset values of loan portfolios, allow for interbank trading and...

This paper studies whether policymakers should wait to intervene until a financial crisis strikes or rather act in a preemptive manner. This question is examined in a relatively simple dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model in which crises are endogenous events induced by the presence of...

The current economic crisis offers an historic opportunity for change. The depth of the crisis means there will likely be a policy turn in a Keynesian and even Post Keynesian direction. However, there are profound political, intellectual and sociological obstacles blocking change in underlying...

Um zu verhindern, dass die deutsche Wirtschaft immer tiefer in den Abwärtssog der globalen Rezession gezogen wird, muss die Finanzpolitik entschlossen gegensteuern. Das von der Bundesregierung beschlossene Maßnahmenbündel ist hierfür völlig unzureichend. Durch ein hoch dosiertes und...

Die Weltwirtschaft befindet sich in einer der dramatischsten Episoden ihrer jüngsten Geschichte. Die weltweite Produktion von Gütern und Dienstleistungen verzeichnet einen Einbruch in einem seit der Weltwirtschaftskrise 1929/30 nicht gekannten Ausmaß. Aber neben diesen ökonomischen Effekten...