Information costs and regulatory barriers are the main distinguishing features of international financial markets as compared to national financial markets. This paper presents a simple model of the impact of these factors on banks' cross-border activities and provides empirical evidence. Our...

This paper studies the interactions between monetary and fiscal policies in the euro area. It carefully discusses the process of policy competition and the structure of policy cooperation. As to policy competition, the focus is on competition between the European central bank, the American...

This paper offers a quantitative description of European private equity markets and compares the recent development in these markets with the development of the US venture capital market. Moreover, the paper addresses the differences between private equity investors acting in a single national...

Nirgendwo ist die Globalisierung so weit fortgeschritten wie im Finanzsektor. Internationale Finanz- und Währungskrisen sowie Konkurse international tätiger Banken rückten in den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten zunehmend die Risiken "entfesselter" Finanzmärkte in den Vordergrund. In Wissenschaft...