The neoclassical growth model is extended to include costly intermediated borrowing and lending between households. This is an important extension as substantial resources are used to intermediate the large amount of borrowing and lending between households. In 2007, in the United States, the...

Keynesian-inspired macro regulation gained importance in West German economic policy from the mid-1960s and was enshrined in law through the Stability and Growth Act in 1967. In the context of the legislative process, the question arose as to what extent the Deutsche Bundesbank should be given...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the teaching of undergraduate macroeconomics. Design/methodology/approach To suggest a roadmap, based on a consumption function, to be used by instructors willing to teach the Lucas Critique subject. Findings Therefore, this paper proposes a...

This article examines, in the light of recent events, the origins of the difficulties that current macroeconomic models have in encompassing the sort of sudden crisis which we are currently observing. The reasons for this are partly due to fundamental problems with the underlying General...

This paper provides an in-depth study on the history and evolution of Commercial Bank characteristic factors and other Macroeconomic variables on the financial industry performance indices in Nigeria from 1977 to 2010. The work employed a 3-stage procedure in the assessment of Commercial Bank...

This study examines the link between market risk and equity return in Nigeria between 1980 to 2019. It employs the vector error correction model (VECM) to determine the short run dynamics and long run effect of market risk factors on stock return. The findings revealed that a dynamic...

Gross domestic product (GDP) is shown to possess three new desiderata. First, GDP is almost perfectly correlated over time with the first principal component of its three classical indicators. Second, this principal component is in a class of weighted indexes ancillary to GDP. Each ancillary...

Die Kreditversorgung war im Zuge der Finanzkrise von 2008/2009 insbesondere in Deutschland Gegenstand großer Besorgnis. Die Verknappung von Krediten, besonders von Geschäftskrediten, in Kombination mit der anhaltenden Rezession führte zu einer wachsenden Furcht vor einer Kreditklemme. Dieser...

The recent financial crises pointed out the central role of public and private debt in modern economies. However, even if debt is a recurring topic in discussions about the current economic situation, economic modeling does not take into account debt as one of the crucial determinants of...