This paper deals with cryptocurrency bubbles. First, it points out that a number of recent papers on cryptocurrency bubbles are awed due to an insufficient consideration of the fundamental value of cryptocurrencies. As even fiat money is said to exhibit features of bubbles, the same applies to...

This paper deals with the economics of Bitcoins in two ways. First, it broadens the discussion on how to capture Bitcoins using economic terms. Center stage in this analysis take the discussion of some unique characteristics of this market as well as the comparison of Bitcoins and gold. Second,...

Dieser Artikel gibt einen Überblick über die neuen Forschungsergebnisse auf den Gebieten der empirischen Analyse der makroökonomischen Konsequenzen von Ölpreisschocks, der Untersuchung des Wandels des Zusammenhangs zwischen dem Ölpreis und der Ökonomie sowie der Untersuchung der...

This paper is concerned with the apparent change in the U.S. oil price-macroeconomy relationship. It is investigated to what extent this change can be accounted for by the large oil price surges witnessed in the 1970s. The innovative approach of rolling impulse responses is applied and both the...

This paper studies the dynamic behavior of daily oil prices and finds strong evidence of GARCH as well as conditional jump behavior. This implies that conditional heteroscedasticity is present and the empirical distribution of oil price changes has heavy tails. Thus, the oil price considerably...

This paper is concerned with the statistical behavior of oil prices in two ways. It, firstly, applies a combined jump GARCH in order to characterize the behavior of daily, weekly as well as monthly oil prices. Secondly, it relates its empirical results to implications of Hotelling-type resource...

Um das Europäische Emissionshandelssystem (EU ETS) wird derzeit aufgrund der niedrigen Preise für Verschmutzungsrechte eine Diskussion geführt. Der Beitrag fasst den aktuellen Stand zusammen und kommentiert ihn aus ökonomischer Sicht.