Der internationale Finanzmarkt leidet derzeit unter den tiefgreifendsten Störungen seit der Weltwirtschaftskrise 1929. Wo liegen die Ursachen für die Krise? Wurden die Chancen für eine frühzeitige Eindämmung verpasst? Sind die verbreiteten Diagnoseansätze und die ergriffenen Maßnahmen...

Vortrag von Prof. Martin S. Feldstein George F. Baker Professor of Economics, Harvard University, Präsident Emeritus, National Bureau of Economic Research

In this paper the authors present a New Keynesian quantitative model with endogenous investment and stock-market sector that may shed further light on two unsettled issues: whether central banks should include some financial indicator in their policy rules, and which indicator may be expected to...

A widely spread belief among economists is that monetary policy has relatively short-lived effects on real variables such as unemployment. Previous studies indicate that monetary policy affects the output gap only at business cycle frequencies, but the effects on unemployment may well be more...