Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/98652 
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Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
ROME Discussion Paper Series No. 14-04
Publisher: 
Research On Money in the Economy (ROME), s.l.
Abstract (Translated): 
Böhm-Bawerk defines the rate of interest as the ratio of intertemporal goods prices, but cannot show the emergence of interest as a financial market price. The alleged efficiency ofroundabout production methods is ill-suited to derive a uniform rate of return of capital. Time preference may affect the allocation of income flows and the decision to build up individual wealth, but credit supply follows from a portfolio decision on the structure of the stock of assets. Here, liquidity preference and monetary policy operations have a decisive influence, whereas changes of productivity and time preference are poor predictors of even the sign of market interest changes. A 'natural' rate of interest, determined by 'deep' parameters of capital, production and time, does not exist; it turns out to be a mere estimated value of the bank rate, as a proxy for goods market equilibrium conditions.
Subjects: 
interest rate theory
capital goods and capital value
time preference
liquidity preference
JEL: 
B13
E43
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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