Das EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) ist als erstes Emissionshandelssystem auf metastaatlicher Ebene implementiert worden. Die USA haben schon vor Beginn der Präsidentschaft Barack Obamas ebenfalls mit den Planungen eines solchen Systems auf Bundesebene begonnen. Der entsprechende...

The divergence of growth and inflation rates across EMU in recent years has reignited the debate as to whether Europe is really an optimum currency areaʺ in which monetary union yields net benefits. But answering this question is complicated inter alia by the further controversy over whether...

There is some evidence that interdependencies among European banks have increased over the past 15 years and that the potential of systemic risks in banking has shifted from a national level to a European level. Whereas wholesale financial markets are considered to be highly integrated within...

With the "more economic approachʺ the EU is taking a new tack on merger control policy. This is visible not only in the new SIEC prohibition criterion and the criteria for appraising horizontal mergers but also in more recent decision-making practice. Greater legal certainty, on the one hand,...

The paper studies the link between the integration of European financial markets and corporate governance in Europe. The focus of the paper is on how integration affects the interplay of ownership structures, capital structures, and monitoring, all of which can be used to govern agency problems...

This paper attempts to answer the question whether the threat of systemic risk in banking exists only on a national or on a European level. Following De Nicolo and Kwast (2001), mean rolling-window correlations between bank stock returns are used as a measure for interdependencies among European...

This paper brings together the literature on determination of home bias in equity holdings and the portfolio balance model of exchange rates to consider whether the dollar might be affected by a change in transactions costs that alters international portfolio allocations. The empirical findings...