This paper studies monetary and fiscal policies in the euro area. It discusses the process of policy competition and the structure of policy cooperation. As to policy competition, the focus is on competition between the European central bank, the German government, and the French government. As...

We make three points. First, the decade before the financial crisis in 2007 was characterized by a collapse in the yield on TIPS. Second, estimated VARs for the federal funds rate and the TIPS yield show that while monetary policy shocks had negligible effects on the TIPS yield, shocks to the...

This paper provides a framework to analyse emergency liquidity assistance of central banks on financial markets in response to aggregate and idiosyncratic liquidity shocks. The model combines the microeconomic view of liquidity as the ability to sell assets quickly and at low costs and the...

We introduce banks, modeled as in Diamond and Rajan (JoF 2000 or JPE 2001), into a standard DSGE model and use this framework to study the role of banks in the transmission of shocks, the effects of monetary policy when banks are exposed to runs, and the interplay between monetary policy and...

Sollte die Finanzaufsicht reformiert und gestärkt werden? Thomas Mayer, Chefvolkswirt, Europa, bei der Deutschen Bank, London, beantwortet diese Frage klar mit einem Ja. Eine bessere Finanzaufsicht bedeute jedoch nicht dichtere Regulierungen und mehr Regulatoren, sondern klare...

Sollte die Finanzaufsicht reformiert und gestärkt werden? Nach Meinung von des Präsidenten des Deutschen Sparkassen- und Giroverbandes, Heinrich Haasis, hat sich die Finanzaufsicht in diesem Sommer bewährt, und das Bemühen um weitere Konvergenz und Kooperation im europäischen Bereich sollte...