Hyperinflation, kollektives Gedächtnis und Zentralbankunabhängigkeit

Neyer Ulrike and Stempel Daniel

Wirtschaftsdienst, 2023, vol. 103, issue 2, 94-97

Abstract: The German hyperinflation in 1923 was caused by monetary financing of the highly deficient German state budget by a dependent central bank. The social and economic consequences of the hyperinflation were disastrous. Combined with an instable political atmosphere, paving the way for the rise of the Nazis, the hyperinflation is deeply etched in the German collective memory. It is this collective memory that shapes the current institutional framework of the ECB. While risk aversion and institutional imprint of the ECB’S policy makers differ, the ECB’s institutional framework ensures that current inflation will not evolve into a hyperinflation.

JEL-codes: E31 E42 E58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.2478/wd-2023-0029

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