Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The practice of macroprudential policy -- Preliminaries -- The design of macroprudential policy -- The institutions of macroprudential policy -- The instruments of macroprudential policy -- The conduct of macroprudential policy -- The theory of macroprudential...

Introduction -- Efficient markets and central banks? -- Money, banks and central banks -- Stable and unstable markets -- Deceiving the diligent -- On (central bank) governors -- Minsky meets Mandelbrot -- Beyond the efficient market fallacy -- Concluding remarks

How to stimulate the economy by credit creation without causing financial instability is the main thrust of this book. In order to accomplish this goal, the author suggests, contrary to the accepted, albeit conventional, academic paradigm, doing away with the Efficient Market Hypothesis and...

Gerhard Illing, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München analysiert die Geld- und Fiskalpolitik in der Wirtschaftskrise: Kernproblem ist ein Konflikt zwischen Preis- und Finanzmarktstabilität: Die labile Konjunktur würde eigentlich niedrige Zinsen erfordern; niedrige Zinsen ermuntern aber die...

Has economic research been helpful in dealing with the financial crises of the early 2000s? On the whole, the answer is negative, although there are bright spots. Economists have largely failed to predict both crises, largely because most of them were not analytically equipped to understand...