Der Beitrag basiert auf einer Rede, die Claudia M. Buch, Vizepräsidentin der Deutschen Bundesbank, am 11. Juni 2015 auf dem Festakt anlässlich des 100. Geburtstags von Hans Möller an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München gehalten hat. Er gibt einen Überblick über die...

Die zügige geld- und fiskalpolitische Reaktion auf die Covid-Krise hat nicht nur die Konjunktur, sondern auch die Finanzmarktstabilität positiv beeinflusst. Sie wurde von einer makroprudenziellen Lockerung begleitet. Die Vermögenspreise in Deutschland, die vor der Covid-19-Krise historische...

On May 11-12, 2011, SUERF, the Belgian Financial Forum, the Brussels Finance Institute and the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) jointly organised the 29th SUERF Colloquium New paradigms in money and finance? The papers included in this SUERF Study are based on contributions to the...

While macroprudential policy has mostly focused on the role of banks, we argue that pension funds are also important for financial stability. Drawing on previous research on pension funds, we explain how their actions can have a vital impact on other financial institutions as well as on...

This study estimates the impact of financial deregulation on top income shares. Using the novel econometric method of constructing synthetic control groups, we show that the "Big Bang"-deregulations in the United Kingdom in 1986 and Japan 1997-1999 increased the share of pre-tax incomes going to...

This Forum aims to systematically describe and analyse the evolution of national financial systems within the EU over the past three decades. It analyses the processes of financialisation that have dominated this period as well as the causes and consequences of the financial crisis from the...

Background: Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a common cause of respiratory infection that is highly prevalent in infants. Severe cases of RSV infection require hospitalisation; this is most likely to occur in infant populations at high risk. The study assesses the cost-effectiveness of...

The issue of whether employees who work more hours than they want to suffer adverse health consequences is important not only at the individual level but also for governmental formation of work time policy. Our study investigates this question by analyzing the impact of the discrepancy between...