Zentralbank-Politik und makroökonomische Ergebnisse: eine sozio-institutionelle Interpretation

Hein, Eckhard (1999): Zentralbank-Politik und makroökonomische Ergebnisse: eine sozio-institutionelle Interpretation. Published in: WSI Diskussionspapiere No. 73 (August 1999)

Abstract

We deal with monetary policies as an institution which has a crucial impact on the economic process but is itself object of distribution conflict. For this purpose we make use of the „Social Structures of Accumulation“ approach. We integrate central bank policies into this approach and derive a typology of potential central bank regimes, depending on capital-labor relations and firms-rentiers relations. This typology is used in order to interpret post World War II development. Finally, some empirical studies on central banking and labour market institutions are surveyed in order to derive some perspectives for employment and inflation under the conditions of independent central banks.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• English Title: Central Bank Policies and Macroeconomic Results: A Socio-institutional Interpretation
• Language: German
• Keywords: Central bank policies; distribution conflict; labour market institutions; employment
• Subjects: E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E0 - General > E02 - Institutions and the Macroeconomy; E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E6 - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook > E64 - Incomes Policy ; Price Policy; E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E5 - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit > E58 - Central Banks and Their Policies

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