Financial Markets

Jeff Deist and David Howden discuss the history of banking in America before 1913 and the entanglements of the Federal Reserve.

In recent years, we’ve seen more and more Austrian-tinged economic analysis. There has been tremendous growth in interest in Austrian economics among financial professionals.

It’s difficult to envisage a downward-sloping yield curve in an unhampered market economy since this would imply that investors are assigning a higher risk to short-term maturities than long-term maturities. But in today’s economy, an upward or a downward sloping yield curve reflects the Fed’s interest rate policies.

Some economists of the Austrian School contend that business cycles are created when banks use the proceeds of short–term time deposits to create longer-term loans. 

The Fed does not produce work or items of value.

Many still blame “deregulation” for the financial disaster that was caused by an intricate web of federal laws and regulations, writes Dale Steinre

Unfortunately, Peter Bossaerts’ text, The Paradox of Asset Pricing, offers no relief from past use of flawed methodologies. Bossaerts is professor of finance and director of the Laboratory

The winner’s curse was “discovered” in low rates of return on certain types of capital goods acquired in auctions or negotiated acquisitions. 

In this article, the prime concepts are based on the Mises-Hayek theory of the business cycle.  Using this model as the general framework for analysis, additions and modifications are introduced reflecting theoretical advances and current problems

There are many methods for choosing common stocks for investment. These methods may or may not be consistent with a traditional Austrian view, depending on the processes involved and basic tenets of the analysis.