I study the economies of Colombia (floating exchange rate) and Panama (dollarized) to illustrate how the monetary policy of a large economy can export capital structure distortions to small open economies that follow different exchange rate regimes. The paper contributes to the literature on...

This paper examines whether the "market monetarism" prescribing a 5% yearly NGDP growth rate was too much between the dot-com and the subprime mortgage crises. To do this I search for evidences of monetary disequilibrium in other variables such as trend deviations, the behavior of intermediate...

In this article, I study the effects of U.S. monetary policy on Latin America's production structure prior to two recent economic crises. In particular, I study the effects of monetary policy on the real economy at the industrial level. I find that changes in the Federal Funds rate produce...

We revisit the unintended consequences of the European Central Bank's (ECB) low-interest rate policies with a focus on the periphery countries of the European Union (EU) since the 2000s from a modern Austrian perspective. We argue that convergence expectations and the ECB's expansionary monetary...

A comprehensive understanding business-cycles needs to account not only for the allocation of resources over time, but also for resource allocation across industries at any point in time. Intertemporal disequilibrium has been a common theme of many theories of the business-cycle. But to properly...

Spanish Abstract: La economía y las instituciones monetarias de la Argentina están experimentando, una vez más, una profunda crisis. En este documento nos proponemos plantear una reforma monetaria para Argentina que consiste en una dolarización flexible junto a un régimen de banca libre....

We provide an initial assessment of the Federal Reserve's policy response to the COVID-19 contraction. We briefly review the historical episode and consider the standard textbook treatment of a pandemic on the macroeconomy. We summarize and then evaluate the Fed's monetary and emergency lending...

This paper analyzes the effects of changes in interest rates on the composition of production in ten European countries during the boom period of the 2000s. We find that output elasticity differs across industries and across countries for similar industries. The paper suggests that in the run-up...