The financial crisis and its ensuing effects have brought back into the limelight the issue of cycles and of policies which fuel or mitigate crises. Cognitive and operational models in economics and business are questioned. There is a specter of much lower economic growth in the industrialized...

This Article reports the results of a broad empirical inquiry into modern trust practice, including a survey of 409 trust service providers in 82 jurisdictions - the largest, most diverse respondent group ever obtained in survey research targeting trust service providers - and interviews with 28...

I provide estimates of seignorage revenue generated by full-reserve banking (FRB). Seignorage is estimated both for the transition to FRB (only once) and for running a FRB system (annually). It turns out that, on the aggregate level, the US is already effectively running a FRB system and,...

This paper presents an alternative presentation of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). The main thesis of this paper is that when a nation has monetary sovereignty and fiat currency, government is quite flexible its methods in controlling price level through market mechanisms, as Warren Mosler - one...

Using account-level credit card data from a major Turkish bank we show the impact of a unique restrictive credit card policy on consumption and debt repayment behavior. The complex policy imposes two types of soft liquidity constraints for certain credit card holders: progressively higher...

In this paper we present a fixprice model in which public and private consumption show some degree of substitution. We offer formulae for the Keynesian multiplier which depend on the degree of substitution. We also show that there is a Pigou effect and that this effesct might be larger than the...

Using a large, representative sample of credit and debit card transactions in Singapore, this paper studies the consumption response of individuals whose same-building neighbors experienced personal bankruptcy. The unique bankruptcy rules in Singapore suggest liquidity shocks drive personal...

The recent wave of recommendations of unlimited credit creation to finance government expenditures to achieve economic growth and prosperity seems to be grounded in misunderstanding Keynes's countercyclical fiscal policy. Keynes's deficit spending denotes the stimulus geared towards increasing...

Only by having a proper understanding of the function of money and finance in the economy can we hope to correctly inform decision making in monetary and fiscal policy. This paper will argue that neoclassical economics fails to do this, which results in suboptimal decision making from...

This paper extends the output growth model tested by Levine and Zervos (1998) by including a measure for capital allocation efficiency proxied by stock price informativeness. Using a sample of 62 countries, this study finds that stock price informativeness as measured by firm-specific return...