NDLI: Malinvestment

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Holcombe, Randall G.
Copyright Year	2016
Abstract	In the Austrian business cycle theory, monetary expansion lowers the interest rate and sends misleading relative price signals to investors, who then make investments that turn out to be unprofitable. One criticism of the theory is that if malinvestment is predictable, investors should understand their businesses well enough to see and avoid the temptation to be lured into unprofitable investments. A broader understanding of the Austrian school's framework explains why malinvestment takes place. The economy is a complex order, and while the theory explains that malinvestment will rise during the expansionary phase, it cannot identify which investment projects will eventually become unprofitable, nor can investors themselves tell ahead of time. Furthermore, applying the fallacy of composition, it may be that one investor could profitably invest based on those price signals, but all investors cannot. Monetary expansion lowers the informational content of prices, making it more likely that unprofitable investments will take place. Even if investors become more cautious, the percentage of investment projects that eventually will prove unprofitable will rise.
Starting Page	153
Ending Page	167
Page Count	15
File Format	PDF
ISSN	08893047
Journal	The Review of Austrian Economics
Volume Number	30
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15737128
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2016-04-11
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Business cycles Investment Monetary policy Fractional reserve banking Austrian school of economics Public Finance Political Science History of Economic Thought/Methodology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Economics, Econometrics and Finance

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