Central banks regularly communicate about financial stability issues, by publishing Financial Stability Reports (FSRs) and through speeches and interviews. The paper asks how such communications affect financial markets. Building a unique dataset, it provides an empirical assessment of the...

In response to the financial crisis of 2007-2010, many central banks are getting involved in macroprudential supervision. Central bank communication will constitute a central policy tool for that purpose. The paper asks how such communication will affect financial markets, exploiting the fact...

Central banks regularly communicate about financial stability issues, by publishing Financial Stability Reports (FSRs) and through speeches and interviews. The paper asks how such communications affect financial markets. Building a unique dataset, it provides an empirical assessment of the...

The debate about TARGET2, the payment system of the European System of Central Banks (ESCB), has resulted in controversial discussions in Germany in recent years. The present study by DIW Berlin concludes that fears often expressed in this context of the risks to Germany are largely unfounded....

Target 2 - the payment system of the Eurosystem - caused a controversial debate in Germany during the recent past. This report reaches the conclusion, that any fear expressed with respect to potentially too large risks for Germany is to a large extent unfounded. Rather, Germany should be...

Since the beginning of the crisis, large Target 2 positions developed on the balance sheets of the national central banks in the euro area. At the height of this development in the middle of 2012, the German Bundesbank disclosed Target-claims vis-à-vis the ECB amounting to around 750 billion...

Central banks regularly communicate about financial stability issues, by publishing Financial Stability Reports (FSRs) and through speeches and interviews. The paper asks how such communications affect financial markets. Building a unique dataset, it provides an empirical assessment of the...

The debate about TARGET2, the payment system of the European System of Central Banks (ESCB), has resulted in controversial discussions in Germany in recent years. The present study by DIW Berlin concludes that fears often expressed in this context of the risks to Germany are largely unfounded....

Im Zahlungssystem der Eurozone, Target 2, sind seit 2007 hohe Verbindlichkeiten der Krisenländer gegenüber den übrigen Mitgliedern der Währungsunion aufgelaufen. Auf dem Höhepunkt dieser Entwicklung Mitte 2012 hatte allein die Deutsche Bundesbank Target-Forderungen in Höhe von 750...

Die Debatte über Target 2 - das Zahlungsverkehrssystem des Europäischen Systems der Zentralbanken - hat in den vergangenen Jahren zu kontroversen Diskussionen in Deutschland geführt. Die vorliegende Studie des DIW Berlin kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass die in diesem Zusammenhang vielfach...