IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/prs/rfreco/rfeco_0769-0479_2008_num_22_4_1716.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

La théorie autrichienne du cycle économique : un test économétrique

Author

Listed:
  • Francis Bismans
  • Christelle Mougeot

Abstract

[fre] Le modèle standard de la théorie autrichienne est celui du mal-investissement. La création monétaire du système bancaire conduit à une baisse artificielle du taux d’intérêt de marché sous le taux naturel, entraînant l’économie sur le sentier d’une expansion non soutenable car non financée par l’épargne disponible. Ce mal-investissement se traduit par un sur-investissement dans les industries de biens de production au détriment des industries de biens de consommation. La crise est alors inévitable quand les entrepreneurs prennent conscience de la non-correspondance entre leurs plans de production et les désirs des consommateurs. Cette séquence est testée empiriquement dans cet article à travers une question : les chocs de politique monétaire perçus à travers les variations de structure des taux d’intérêt, des prix relatifs et des dépenses sont-ils suffisants pour expliquer les fluctuations conjoncturelles de l’activité économique globale ? Notre modèle économétrique de données de panels à effets fixes, construit à partir des observations trimestrielles issues de quatre pays (Allemagne, Etats-Unis, France et Royaume-Uni) entre 1980 et 2006, tend ainsi à confirmer empiriquement les hypothèses autrichiennes d’un cycle impulsé par un choc monétaire et se propageant par la distorsion des prix relatifs. [eng] Empirical Evidence on the Austrian Business Cycles Theory. . The Austrian approach to business cycles has seldom examined in econometrical terms. This paper first reviews the essentials of that approach and the recent application of the Austrian business cycle theory in the economics literature. Quarterly data for Germany, USA, England and France, 1980 : 1 through 2006 : 1, are used to explore business cycle facts and relations between terms structure of interest rates relative prices, composition of aggregate expenditure and income. Results are consistent with the hypothesis of the Austrian Business Cycle Theory caused by a monetary shock and propagated by relative price changes.

Suggested Citation

  • Francis Bismans & Christelle Mougeot, 2008. "La théorie autrichienne du cycle économique : un test économétrique," Revue Française d'Économie, Programme National Persée, vol. 22(4), pages 73-102.
  • Handle: RePEc:prs:rfreco:rfeco_0769-0479_2008_num_22_4_1716
    DOI: 10.3406/rfeco.2008.1716
    Note: DOI:10.3406/rfeco.2008.1716
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.3406/rfeco.2008.1716
    Download Restriction: no

    File URL: https://www.persee.fr/doc/rfeco_0769-0479_2008_num_22_4_1716
    Download Restriction: no

    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.3406/rfeco.2008.1716?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Thierry Aimar & Francis Bismans & Claude Diebolt, 2010. "Le cycle économique : une synthèse," Revue Française d'Économie, Programme National Persée, vol. 24(4), pages 3-65.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:prs:rfreco:rfeco_0769-0479_2008_num_22_4_1716. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Equipe PERSEE (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.persee.fr/collection/rfeco .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.