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Central Banking and Crisis Management from the Perspective of Austrian Business Cycle Theory

The paper analyses the evolvement and effects of central bank crisis management since the mid 1980s based on a Hayek-Mises-Wicksell overinvestment framework. It is shown that, given that the traditional transmission mechanism between monetary policy and consumer price inflation has collapsed, asymmetric monetary policy crisis management implies a convergence of interest rates towards zero and a gradual expansion of central bank balance sheets. From a Hayek-Mises-Wicksell perspective asymmetric central bank crisis management has contributed to financial market bubbles, decreasing marginal efficiency of investment, increasing income inequality and declining growth dynamics. The economic policy implication is a slow but decisive exit from ultra-expansionary monetary policies.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 6179

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Monetary Policy
Central Banks and Their Policies
International Policy Coordination and Transmission
Comparative or Joint Analysis of Fiscal and Monetary Policy; Stabilization; Treasury Policy
Thema
Hayek
Mises
Wicksell
monetary overinvestment theory
asymmetric monetary policy
financial crisis
Goodhart’s Law
marginal productivity of investment
secular stagnation

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Schnabl, Gunther
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2016

Handle
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Schnabl, Gunther
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 2016

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