In der Oktoberausgabe 2018 veröffentlichte der Wirtschaftsdienst einen Aufsatz mit dem Titel "Große Summe - großes Problem? Warum die Debatte um die Target-Salden so hitzig ist" von Adalbert Winkler. Stefan Homburg vertritt hier eine andere Auffassung in einer Replik, im Anschluss erläutert...

Die politische Diskussion um die deutsche Schuldenbremse klingt nicht ab. Nicht zuletzt dürften die Verhandlungen über den Bundeshaushalt des Jahres 2025 ihren Teil dazu beigetragen haben. Im Grunde kritisieren zu einem erheblichen Teil dieselben Personen die Schuldenbremse mit denselben...

Die Bilanz der Bundesbank und jene anderer Notenbanken des Euroraums weisen aktuell hohe "operative" Verluste auf, bedingt durch die Diskrepanz aus den weiterhin niedrig verzinsten Wertpapierbeständen aus Anleihekäufen und den mittlerweile höher verzinsten Einlagen der Geschäftsbanken. Indes...

In the most recent decade, the European Union has shown itself to be less robust than globalists imagined. Globalists believed that supranationality was weatherproof – that it would always outperform national alternatives and would survive adversity. Economic stagnation and Brexit belied these...

Keynesian-inspired macro regulation gained importance in West German economic policy from the mid-1960s and was enshrined in law through the Stability and Growth Act in 1967. In the context of the legislative process, the question arose as to what extent the Deutsche Bundesbank should be given...

We show that the stock market price reaction to monetary policy surprises upon announcements of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is explained mostly by changes in the default-free term structure of yields, not by changes in the equity premium. We reach this conclusion based on a new...

We explain how the Bank of Canada's policy models capture the trade-off between output and inflation in Canada. We start by briefly revisiting the determinants of the New Keynesian Phillips curve. Next, we provide an overview of the Phillips curves that are currently embedded in the two main...

This article theoretically and empirically investigates the determinants of inflation in a sample of 83 countries, including countries that adopt an inflation targeting regime (ITR) and countries that do not, for the period 2000 to 2021. The hypothesis that guides the research is that the recent...

We employ a structural VAR model with global and US variables to study the relevance and transmission of oil, food commodities, and industrial input price shocks. We show that commodities are not all alike. Industrial input price changes are almost entirely endogenous responses to other shocks....

Is inflation (still) a global phenomenon? We study the international co-movement of inflation based on a dynamic factor model and in a sample spanning up to 56 countries during the 1960-2023 period. Over the entire period, a first global factor explains approximately 58% of the variation in...