The risk of a sustained acceleration of inflation due to the expansionary monetary and fiscal policies in the wake of the global recession seems low, if the central banks reduce the money supply rapidly enough as soon as the crisis abates and if governments present credible measures to...

An overly expansionary monetary policy stance (particularly in the USA) fuelled speculation on stock markets; when the bubble burst, economies fell into recession. These mechanisms are explained in a theoretical model with three inter-acting markets for money, equities and goods.

The burst of the real estate bubble in the USA was a key factor of the financial market crisis. For banks, a slump in real estate prices is more dangerous than a stock market crash since real estate is the most important collateral for bank loans and house ownership is much more widespread...

Any analysis which limits the causes of the financial and economic crisis to either market failure or to the failure of the state can only be viewed as superficial. The causes are rather a combination of both these factors. Had there been a more clearly defined division between the role of the...

Since the onset of the banking crisis numerous proposals for an improvement of the financial system have been developed. The focus is on a reorientation of banking and financial market regulation. There is a consensus that the regulatory framework will have to be strengthened by macro-prudential...

From about the end of 2008, the financial and economic crisis has been increasingly mirrored in substantial job losses and a massive rise in unemployment. At the start of the downturn it was mainly the young and male workers in manufacturing who were affected. With the doldrums continuing, the...

The high public deficits expected in the coming years can largely be attributed to the budgetary effects of the financial market and economic crisis. Against the backdrop of a long term budget burden through increased debt and a demographically-related increase in expenditures, it is all the...

The global financial crisis, which had its origins in the bursting of the real estate bubble in the USA, has affected the confidence in the functionality of the modern banking and financial system. Such a situation poses the threat of a reduction of credit supply, which can lead to an outright...

The current financial crisis cannot be attributed to a single cause, but resulted from the interaction of several simultaneously active forces. The causes can be classified into three categories: macroeconomic causes, regulatory or supervisory shortcomings and causes related to incentives or...

Ten years after the start of EMU, the global financial market crisis is putting its viability to a test. In the absence of other mechanisms to smooth such a shock, a higher degree of economic policy co-ordination and closer co-operation between the euro area member countries and the ECB is...