Die Entschuldung von über schuldeten Staaten über eine lockere Geldpolitik bzw. über finanzielle Repression sichert den Wohlstand in den Industrieländern nicht, argumentieren die Autoren. Der mit der ultra-lockeren Geldpolitik einhergehende graduelle Fall der Produktivitätsgewinne und die...

Too Big to Fail? The Newfoundland Bank Crash of 1894 In the Newfoundland Bank Crash of 1894, the commercial banks in a duopolistic loan market both went under simultaneously. The banking system was "free", as central bank, deposit insurance, and lender of last resort were all absent. The...

Zahlreiche Genossenschaftsbanken sehen sich durch die politisch motivierte Niedrigzinsphase zunehmend unter Druck gesetzt ihre Produktivität zu steigern, um ihr Geschäftsmodell weiterhin auskömmlich betreiben zu können. Die vorliegende Untersuchung liefert empirische Ergebnisse, welche...

The paper examined the interest rate operations and processes in Nigeria and examined the role of financial development in incentivizing central bank monetary policies from the monetary policy rate to the money market rates, lending rates, and deposit rates. The analysis covered the period from...

This is a research on Political Economy, Macroeconomics and Applied Economy, based on the Austrian Economics' approach over the economic cycles and applied to the Spanish case (2002-2014). Attention is focused on the endemic problem of economic cycles, such as successive and distorting periods...

This study examined the effect of auditor independence on financial reporting quality of deposit money banks in Nigeria with Financial Reporting Quality as the dependent variable; Audit Fee, Audit Firm Size and Audit Meeting as independent variables, Debt Ratio as control variable. The sample...

The authors review the challenges that the Romanian economy and society had to face in the European and global geoeconomic context. Starting from the perspectives advanced by the international economic fora, the risks the European economy will have to answer through counteracting and general...

Der Beitrag beginnt mit einer kurzen Zusammenfassung der Situation vor der Entscheidung zur Errichtung der Europäischen Währungsunion (EWU), d.h. den Problemen des Europäischen Währungssystems (EWS), das 1979 eingerichtet worden war und alsbald reparaturbedürftig wurde. Es wird gezeigt,...

This paper offers a reappraisal of the inflation-unemployment tradeoff, based on ?frictional growth,? describing the interplay between nominal frictions and money growth. When the money supply grows in the presence of price inertia (due to staggered wage contracts with time discounting), the...

The Covid-19 Pandemic and policy response rattled the USTreasury markets. Conventional US Treasuries, inflation adjustedUS Treasuries, and the relationship between the two developed inways such that ignoring changes in real interest rates yielded dis-torted inflation expectations estimates....