This paper incorporates low interest rates into a framework of Post-Keynesian theory of the firm under financialisation and uses Compustat data to provide an empirical analysis of firm behaviour in the Eurozone for the period 2000-2018. It reasons that loose monetary policy targeting low...

On 10 January 2013 the ECB Governing Council decided “to keep the key ECB interest rates unchanged” based on an assessment of a ‚contained‘ inflationary pressure and a weak economic activity, a contraction of real GDP in second and third quarter of 2012. Similar decisions have been taken...

On 10 January 2013 the ECB Governing Council decided “to keep the key ECB interest rates unchanged” based on an assessment of a 'contained' inflationary pressure and a weak economic activity, a contraction of real GDP in second and third quarter of 2012. Similar decisions have been taken by...