Specific ideas about the Fisher relation between real and nominal interest rates and more general ideas about the nature of the central bank's duty to support the financial system in times of crisis were important to the Monetarist re-assessment of the causes of the Great Depression and what...

The 1990s were the most prosperous decade in U.S. economic history. The paper analyses to which extent this period fits into preceding cyclical experience. This is done by classifying the period 1991-12 to 2000-12 with the help of a 4-phase classification scheme based on multivariate...

Angesichts der äußerst labilen Weltwirtschaftslage wird vermehrt vorgeschlagen, bereits beschlossene Steuerreformschritte und geplante Infrastrukturinvestitionen zeitlich vorzuziehen. Eine finanzpolitische Konjunktursteuerung stößt indessen verbreitet auf Ablehnung. Sind die Vorbehalte...

This paper is concerned with the apparent change in the U.S. oil price-macroeconomy relationship. It is investigated to what extent this change can be accounted for by the large oil price surges witnessed in the 1970s. The innovative approach of rolling impulse responses is applied and both the...