The project to build up a banking union in Europe was launched in summer 2012. Thereafter the progress has been fast. Single Supervisory Mechanism will embark on November 1, 2014. A decision on the Single Resolution Mechanism was made in Spring 2014. It should be up and running as of the...

The paper reviews the Finnish experience of maintaining an explicit currency band since its creation in 1977. The emphasis is on the latter half of the 1980s, which is a period of free capital movements and unregulated domestic money markets. The first part of the paper gives an historical...

The paper attempts to formalize dealer behaviour in the foreign exchange market. The three key assumptions used in the analysis are price sensitivity of customer orders and profit maximization by dealers who are constrained by the closed position target for the end of the day. As a market maker...

This paper examines developments in the Finnish money and foreign exchange markets in the light of the recent literature on target-zones. The basket-pegging system, which was officially adopted in Finland in late 1977, provides a good opportunity to discuss some of the implications of the...

The paper investigates the relationship between relative price movements and changes in the aggregate price level using monthly data on Finland's Consumer Price Index and its components from the period covering the past eight and a half years.This was a period of very low inflation.The rate of...