Die Internationalisierung der Kapitalmärkte während der Gold-Standard-Ära führte zu einer Verlagerung des Kapitals von lokalen Finanzmärkten zu den nationalen, und von dort aus zu ausländischen Finanzzentren. Der Umfang der Verlagerung, so die These des Artikels, war abhängig vom...

NationCoins are cryptocurrencies backed by Sovereign Authority (Simply put, they are Government issued Bitcoin-like cryptocurrencies). In this paper, we explain the generation, security and distribution of NationCoins by a Sovereign Authority. We begin by explaining the concept of...

Perpetual property rights to land, structures, corporations and money allows investors to be overpaid to create inefficiencies and inequities in a way not measured by accountants and little noticed by economists. All intellectual property rights have limited life. Most assets depreciate over...

Economic growth is ardently emphasized as a requisite underpinning not only for improving individual income, the standard of living, and a society's infrastructure, but also to attain equitable distribution of necessities, critical resources, and public goods such as education, healthcare, and...

This paper considers how monetary policy produces heterogeneous effects on euro area households, depending on the composition of their income and on the components of their wealth. We first review the existing evidence on how monetary policy affects income and wealth inequality. We then...

This paper uses a simple model based on the board game Monopoly to analyze the drivers of house prices and wealth inequality. Simulations show that the inequality depends on the timing and distribution of home ownership, house price growth and wage growth. An extension of the classical game with...

Currently the hottest two domestic macroeconomic issues in the United States are the dynamics of the federal funds rate (FFR) and the deterioration of income inequality. Amid the great uncertainty over the FFR, this paper attempts to predict where the FFR is bound to go in the near and...