Financial instruments are subject to inflation taxes on the wealth they represent and on the nominal income flows they provide. This paper explicitly introduces financial instruments into the standard stochastic growth model with money and production and shows that the value of the firm in this...

This paper develops a model of the lender of last resort. It provides an analytical basis for “too big too fail” and a rationale for “constructive ambiguity”. Key results are that if contagion (moral hazard) is the main concern, the Central Bank (CB) will have an excessive (little)...

The paper analyzes the determinants of banking spreads in Barbados, with a view to identifying the role of the monetary policy regime in explaining high spreads. The paper finds that interest rate spreads for Barbados are higher than would be suggested by its macroeconomic performance. Banking...

Frontmatter -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- 1. Einleitung -- 2. Ein Vergleich von Freiburger und Österreichischer Schule -- 3. Schumpeter - Unternehmertheorie und Konjunkturablauf sowie die Frage nach Kapitalismus, Sozialismus und Demokratie -- 4. Milton Friedman - Freiheit und das Wachstum der...

A Europe Made of Money is a new history of the making of the European Monetary System (EMS), based on extensive archive research. Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol highlights two long-term processes in the monetary and economic negotiations in the decade leading up to the founding of the EMS in 1979. The...

Main description: The crash of 2008 revealed that the world's central banks had failed to offset the financial imbalances that led to the crisis, and lacked the tools to respond effectively. What lessons should central banks learn from the experience, and how, in a global financial system,...

Macroprudential policy is perhaps the most important new development in central bank policymaking circles since the global financial crisis, and reliance on such policies has continued to spread. The crisis, which showed the limits of conventional monetary policy as a tool to deal with financial...

When the Federal Reserve, European Central Bank and Bank of England purchased bank and state debt during the 2007-2008 crisis, it became apparent that, when technically divorced from fiscal policy, monetary policy cannot revive but only prevent economic activity deteriorating further. Pixley...

Ein faszinierendes Lehrbuch! Geld ist das Gut, welches Geldfunktionen ausführt. Aber nicht jedes Gut ist Geld, sondern nur jenes ist Geld, welches, wie der Verfasser zeigt, in einer arbeitsteiligen Volkswirtschaft die Kosten des Handels wie beispielsweise die Informations-, Transaktions- und...