Skyscrapers and Business Cycles
The skyscraper index, created by economist Andrew Lawrence shows a correlation between the construction of the world’s tallest building and the business cycle.
Booms and Busts
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Austrian Business Cycle Theory, Keynes’s General Theory, Soaring Wheat Prices, and Subprime Mortgage Write-Downs
Keynes's presentation of our rates of interest on wheat and housing is set within Austrian business cycle theory, to show that soaring wheat prices and subprime mortgage write-downs are expected,
Industrial Employment and the Policies of Herbert C. Hoover
Most historians claim that Herbert Hoover adhered to a policy of laissez faire after the stock market crash of 1929. This laissez faire policy is allegedly responsible for the severity and persistence of unemployment
A Reformulation of Austrian Business Cycle Theory in Light of the Financial Crisis
The financial crisis and the events leading up to it have sparked a remarkable renewal of interest in Austrian Business Cycle Theory (ABCT).
The Recession of 1990: A Comment
Arthur Hughes seeks to apply the Austrian theory of the business cycle to the recession of 1990.
Austrian Business Cycle Theory: Variations on a Theme
In a recent study, Keeler (2001) attempts to provide historical/empirical evidence for the Austrian business cycle theory by examining the effect of interest-rate changes on various components
Review of The Subprime Solution: How Today’s Global Financial Crisis Happened, and What to Do About It. By Robert J. Shiller
It is with great trepidation and anticipation that we review Robert Shiller’s new book, The Subprime Solution. Trepidation as to the causes of the problem, which were expected to take a behavioral spin.
Austrian Business Cycle Theory and the Global Financial Crisis: Confessions of a Mainstream Economist
Austrian business cycle theory has a legitimate claim to being the most authoritative explanation of the recent global financial and economic crisis.
Systematic Risk, Missing Gold Flows, and the Panic of 1907
his paper investigates the potential systemic risks posed to the U.S. securities markets by the banking crisis during the Panic of 1907. Past studies of 1907 have focused almost exclusively on the banking crisis.
Review of Engineering the Financial Crisis: Systemic Risk and the Failure of Regulation by Jeffrey Friedman and Wladimir Kraus
Jeffrey Friedman and Wladamir Kraus attempt to separate the wheat from the chaff by sizing up these theories next to some hard facts. The result is enlightening.
