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Germany, Spain, and Italy using a credit risk indicator based on nonfinancial corporate bond yields and annual loan growth for …-performing loans data since Italy was the most affected by malinvestment among the countries in question. As a result, this paper …This study argues that increasing malinvestment in an economy raises the actual credit risk but not the calculated …
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The ABCT is a description of the boom and bust of an economy following a reduction in the banks' interest rate to a level below the equilibrium or natural rate. While descriptions of the theory emphasize the imbalance between consumption and investment that ensues the artificial decrease in the...
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This paper reviews the Austrian theory of the business cycle first proposed by Friedrich Hayek in the 1920s. His theory claimed that credit creation by monetary authorities would push investment beyond society`s long-term willingness to save, creating a mismatch between supply and demand that...
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Approaching the theory of economic cycle is not an issue that comes in hand! We are permitted to make such a statement based on the idea that explanations concerning the business cycle theory are strictly related to how each school of thought was able to understand the system that makes market,...
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euro-area countries (Germany, France, Italy and Spain). With particularly rich micro datasets for each country containing … einzelwirtschaftlichen Investitionsverhaltens in den vier größten Ländern des Euro-Währungsraums (Deutschland, Frankreich, Italien und … sensitive to cash flow movements. However, only in Italy do smaller firms react more to cash flow movements than large firms …
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euro-area countries (Germany, France, Italy and Spain). With particularly rich micro datasets for each country containing … sensitive to cash flow movements. However, only in Italy do smaller firms react more to cash flow movements than large firms …
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Does time-varying business volatility affect the price setting of firms and thus the transmission of monetary policy into the real economy? To address this question, we estimate from the firm-level micro data of the German IFO Business Climate Survey the impact of idiosyncratic volatility on the...
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Salter and Luther (2016) argue that the Austrian theory of the business cycle (ABCT) can be interpreted as one where consumers and entrepreneurs with rational expectations make erroneous investment decisions driven by misperceptions regarding real vs. nominal shocks. Although we are sympathetic...
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This paper studies a scenario - one of the six problems with Austrian Business Cycle theory raised by Hummel (1979) - that the ABCT literature has paid little attention. Will a constant rate of credit expansion necessarily lead to a boom-bust cycle? We conclude that this scenario has two...
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