The paper analyses the role of monetary policy for cyclical movements of investment and asset markets in East Asia and Europe based on a Mises-Hayek overinvestment framework. It is shown how the gradual global decline of interest rates has triggered wandering overinvestment cycles in Japan,...

Seit Einführung des Euro im Jahr 1999 ist die Geldpolitik der Europäischen Zentralbank sehr locker. Die Leitzinsen sind auf und unter null gefallen. Die umfangreichen Kredite an Geschäftsbanken und Anleihekaufprogramme haben die Bilanz der Europäischen Zentralbank deutlich ausgeweitet. Das...

For a long time, China’s impressive growth performance has been driven by investment and high productivity gains. Based on the recent discussion on possible overcapacities and overinvestment in China, the paper investigates the sustainability of China’s investment- and export-driven growth...

The currency reform on 20 June 1948, together with a comprehensive liberalisation of prices and the implementation of monopoly control, formed the basis for the West German economic miracle. From then on, the market principles formulated by Walter Eucken und implemented by Ludwig Erhard became...