Based on a classification of countries and territories according to their regime and anchor currency choice, the study considers the two major currency blocs of the present world. A nested logit regression suggests that long-term structural economic variables determine a given country's currency...

We disentangle different driving factors of sovereign bond market integration by studying yield co-movements of EMU countries, the UK, the US and 16 German Länder in the last 15 years. At a low frequency of weeks, bond market integration has increased gradually in the course of the last 15...

Wie sind die deutschen Goldreserven entstanden und welche Rolle spielte Gold als Zahlungsmittel im Wandel der Zeiten? Welche Bedeutung hatten Goldreserven damals und heute? Mit diesem Buch werden die Goldbestände der Bundesbank den Lesern erstmals informativ und illustrativ so nahegebracht, als...