Am 16. Februar 2000 vollendete Professor Vincenz Timmermann sein 65. Lebensjahr. Er hat sich - weit über die Stätten seiner wissenschaftlichen Tätigkeit hinaus - einen Ruf als vielseitiger und engagierter Wirtschaftswissenschaftler erworben. Mit dieser Festschrift möchten Kollegen und...

"Adair Turner became chairman of Britain's Financial Services Authority just as the global financial crisis struck in 2008, and he played a leading role in redesigning global financial regulation. In this eye-opening book, he sets the record straight about what really caused the crisis. It...

"We examine econometrically the real effects of paper money's introduction into colonial New England over the 1703-1749 period. Departing from earlier analyses that focus primarily on the depreciation of paper money in the region, we show that expansion of the money stock promoted growth in...