Ersan Bocutoglu

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Austrian Business Cycle Theory and Global Crisis

02/05/2010 Mises Daily Ersan Bocutoglu Aykut Ekinci

"The fact that credit booms are encouraged by derivative instruments has substantially increased the destabilizing effects of an artificial credit-expansion policy carried out by keeping the market interest rates below natural interest rates."

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