Daily data from the German and U.S. equity markets before and after the introduction of the Euro are used to study the effect of exchange rate regime choices on equity markets. It is found that, since the introduction of the Euro, the volatility and the persistence of the German stock index have...

This paper reconsiders the determinants of the exchange rate by studying the historical episode after the fall of the Iron Curtain. Testing a modified portfolio balance model, we attribute the strength of the deutschmark in the early nineties and the puzzling decline of the euro during its...

The recent increase of interest rate spreads in Europe and their apparent detachment from underlying fundamental variables has generated a debate on multiple equilibria in the sovereign bond market (see De Grauwe and Ji (2012)). We critically evaluate this hypothesis, by pointing towards an...

Vorträge von Prof. Henning Bohn, Professor of Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Otmar Issing, President Center for Financial Studies, University of Frankfurt, und Prof. Dr. Frank Westermann, Professor of Economics, University of Osnabrück.

Die EZB hat ein neues Bilanzziel. Um eine Billion Euro möchte sie ihre Bilanz ausweiten - auf den Stand vom März 2012 - um Deflationsgefahren vorzubeugen. Dies wirft jedoch neue Fragen auf: Wie bilanziert eigentlich die EZB? Welchen Zielen dient diese Bilanz? Und wie informativ ist die...