This paper examines 1) an exploration of international interest rates, 2) investment and saving in Australia, 3) Unemployment in Market Economies.

This paper sorts out competing explanations of high real interest rates and banking crises in open economies.

In this paper, the author uses structural vector autoregression methodology to decompose U.S. nominal interest rates into an expected inflation component and an ex ante real interest rate component.

On 5-6 September 2012 SUERF held its 30th Colloquium “States, Banks, and the Financing of the Economy” at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. The papers included in this SUERF Study are based on contributions to the Colloquium. All the chapters in this publication discuss from different...