The available concepts of an extended monetary base are seriously defective. They provide equal measurements for differently sized impulse forces of monetary policy and different measurements for equally sized impulse forces of monetary policy. A new concept is suggested that allows to avoid...

To deal with changes of capitalized seignorage due to EMU, we supply the still missing capital-theoretical framework. We show that seignorage pooling of EMU is composed of two components, a dynamic component and a static component. By its dynamic component, the pool provides insurance against...

In der Makroökonomik werden Liquiditätsfallen ohne Mikrofundierung als existent angenommen und die Japan-Krise hat Liquiditätsfallen wieder zum Diskussionsthema gemacht. Deshalb wird die Frage der Existenz von Liquiditätsfallen hier portfolio-theoretisch untersucht im Rahmen eines...

The current discussion about stability of the European money demand function is flawed by a confusion of two different concepts of stability (adjustment speed versus error variance). The meaning and importance of the underlying notions of stability is clarified. It is demonstrated that necessary...