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...

Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) ist ein keynesianischer Ansatz, der Geld in den Mittelpunkt der Analyse stellt und die Rolle des Staates in einer geldvermittelten Marktwirtschaft herausarbeitet, in der Vollbeschäftigung weder den Normalfall noch ein Gravitationszentrum darstellt. In der...

We regress long-term private sector interest rates on a money market rate, a term premium and credit risk. As a contribution to the current debate about European safe assets, our interest is in quantifying domestic spillover effects from euro area sovereign bond spreads. Panel estimates show...