I provide a structured comparison of the nineteenth-century classical gold standard and the Euro, basing my analysis heavily on recent research. Both similarities and differences are evident in the historical record. Both regimes were vaunted as engines of convergence, but in both cases...

Variable geometry ought to imply "variably geometry Europe" as variable geometry or differentiated integration in the European Union has reached its limits. Drawing on the lessons of the Eurozone crisis and of Brexit, this chapter argues that (treaty-based) variable geometry or differentiated...

Jon Danielsson discusses the use of capital ratios and macroprudential regulation and describes the limitations of each policy: How banks can inflate capital ratios, how capital requirements fail to reduce the risk of aggregate shocks and how Basel III regulations burden smaller banks relative...

Die umfangreiche empirische Literatur zur Gültigkeit der Erwartungstheorie der Zinsstruktur in den USA hat einen "U-förmigen" Verlauf des Informationsgehalts in längerfristigen Zinsen für zukünftige kurzfristige Zinsen nachgewiesen. Während Änderungen des Tagesgeldzinses in den nächsten...