The Continental Economics Institute Research Program

The objective of The Continental Economics Institute's research program is to identify those institutional
settings that promote the attainment of the "progressive accumulation of new capital and its utilization for the
improvement of technical methods of production" (Mises) which help to create a humane and prosperous society.

Capital-Based Macroeconomics
This research project is directed at developing a capital-based business cycle model that integrates aspects that have been left out
in the conventional macro models such as entrepreneurship, time, roundaboutness, and a micro-foundation with roots in the
economics of the firm.

Money and Banking as Promoter and Catalysts of Financial Crises
Based on the Misesian theory of money, this project is directed at analyzing the role of modern central banks in their linkage to the
fractional reserve system of the commercial banking sector.

Transformation of the International Monetary System
This research project examines the challenges to the role of the U.S.-dollar as an international reserve and transaction currency with
the main focal points directed at the U.S.-monetary policy, the euro, and the Asian and Latin American currency arrangements.
The monetary background of trade deficits and their economic consequences are treated.

Entrepreneurship and Economic Development
This project investigates the role of the entrepreneur as the driving force of economic growth and development. Different from the
neoclassical theory and the
Schumpeterian view, the basic model of this research is the entrepreneur as a
purposeful actor who deals with the uncertainties of roundabout production
ventures. This way, aspects are highlighted which often have been left out in
economic growth and development theories, such as time, external risks, taxation, the market structure, and government
interventions. It is shown that the
entrepreneur is the essential factor for economic growth because it is he who envisions new business ideas and puts them at test in
the markets by which he receives information and incentives in terms of prices, profit and loss.

Governance
This research project covers various issues ranging from the breakdown
of the modern welfare state to the instability of the international financial system. The common focus is provided by the thesis that the
global crisis of governance is mainly the result of state interventionism with its inherent expansion and its tendency towards the
destruction of spontaneous institutions.

European Monetary Union
The political economy of common currency arrangements in Europe, the role of the European Central Bank and its monetary policy.
Relationship between trade liberalization and financial movements. Critique of the "optimal currency area" concept. The main thesis
of this research project is that the common European currency is not an economic but a political vehicle. The euro is an instrument in
the endeavor of the Europeans to regain their global dominance.

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Research Notes
Current Working Papers
by Antony Mueller

Monetary Policy and the
Business
Cycle

Misesian Monetary
Economics

Do Current Account Deficits
Matter?

Human Action. Epistemology

Capital and Entrepreneurship

The Political Economy of
Common
Currency Arrangement.
The Euro Experience

Antony P. Mueller e Tiago
Roberto Aragão Nacimento:
"O papel da política
monetária e cambial no
processo de integração e
desenvolvimento da América
Latina. Lições Européias"
Research Sources

Social Science Research
Network (SSRN)

Inomics

Repositories

The Ludwig von Mises
Institute e-books Library

The Library of Economics
and Liberty e-books and
on-line Articles

The Liberty Fund Library

The Foundation for
Economic Education
Library

The Cato Institute
Publications

The Mises Institute
Working Paper

The Mises Institute
Articles

The Quarterly Journal of
Austrian Economics

The Ludwig von Mises
Institute Media Library

The Francisco Marroquin
University New Media
Library

The Austrian Economics
Study Guide

EconTalk
Where to stay in New York City
Recent Publications

"What's Behind the Currency
War?" Mises Institute
Feb 2011

"The Origin of the Crisis",
Back on the Road to
Serfdom. The Resurgence
of Statism,
ed. by Thomas E. Woods,
ISI, Washington, DC, 2011


O papel da política
monetária-cambial no
processo de integração e
desenvolvimento da
America Latina
II Congreso y IX Simposio
Internacional de América
Latina y El Caribe
Buenos Aires 2011

Deflação pode ser uma
coisa boa?
06/2011

Inflação: causas e
consequências
05/2011

O papel do empreendedor
no desenvolvimento
econômico
04/2011

"Investimentos: bons e
ruins"
03/2011

"O que está por trás da
guerra cambial?"
02/2011

"Praxeologia versus
Positivismo"
02/2011


A teoria do valor e ideologia
política
(Theory of value and political
ideology)
01/2011

The Stimulus Scam  

Trouble at the Fed  

"Implementing a
Regional Gold Standard.
Lessons from European
Monetary Integration"

Antony Mueller and Paulo
Barcellos:
"
The Right Move.
Market-oriented quality
management"

The Ludwig von Mises
Institute (ed.):
"The Bailout Reader"

Antony Mueller:
"What's Behind the Financial
Market Crisis?"

More Recent Articles

Cash and Currencies
The Continental Economics
Currency Review
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Money, Markets, and the
Business Cycle
Past comments
(2007-2010) on currencies,
monetary
policy, and financial markets:
continentaleconomics.com/b
log