A perceived need to increase nominal wage flexibility as a substitute for domestic monetary policy and a tendency to less wage moderation are likely to promote bargaining co-ordination and social pacts in the EMU. But such co-ordination is not likely to be sustainable in the long run, as it...

The European experience suggests that the efforts made to achieve an efficient trade-off between monetary policy and prudential supervision ultimately failed. The severity of the global crisis have pushed central banks to explore innovative tools-within or beyond their statutory...

Why did European policy-makers introduce the Banking Union? Which are its main features? How does it affect banks and their customers? This book tries to answer these questions, by providing a clear description of the building blocks of the Banking Union, and by showing that several issues...

Geschichtliche Entwicklung des Meldewesens -- Meldewesen für Banken: COREP-Meldungen, FINREP-Meldungen -- Meldewesen für Versicherungen, Pensionskassen: Solvency II -- Ausblick auf zukünftige Entwicklungen und die Harmonisierung des Meldewesens. .

This book studies relationship dynamics between National Competent Authorities (NCAs) within two agencies governing the European banking sector: the European Banking Authority and the Single Resolution Board. The analysis centres on NCAs policy preferences and the variety thereof, particularly...

Haftungsrelevante Geschäftsleiterpflichten im Kontext der MaRisk -- Anforderungen der CRR an das Risikomanagement als Ergänzung zu den MaRisk -- Grundlagen und Konsequenzen der Finanzinformationenverordnung -- Art und Umfang der Finanzinformationen von Kreditinstituten auf Einzelebene.

We model a banking union of two countries whose banking sectors differ in their average probability of failure and externalities between the two countries arise from cross-border bank ownership. The two countries face (i) a regulatory decision of which banks are to be shut down before they can...

This paper examines the ramification of government capital injections into financially distressed banks during the 1997 Japanese banking crisis. By leveraging a unique dataset merging firm-level financial statements and bank balance sheets, the study aims to examine whether the capital...