The economic crisis triggered by the COVID-19 virus is unique in economic history in its mode and rate of occurrence, global coverage, and consequences. The text reveals the mechanisms of the impact of health shock on the economy and the macroeconomic framework of mitigating and exiting the...

We derive fundamental new theory for measuring monetary service flows aggregated over countries within the European Monetary Union (EMU). We develop three increasingly restrictive approaches: (1) the heterogeneous agents approach, (2) the multilateral representative agent approach, and (3) the...

This paper re-examines two data issues concerning euro area money demand: aggregation of national data and measurement of the own rate.The main purpose is to study if euro area money demand is subject to parameter non-constancies using formal tests rather than informal diagnostics. As a...

Mit dem Übergang zu einer gemeinsamen Währung in Europa stellt sich die Frage, ob die Europäische Zentralbank eine Politik der Geldmengensteuerung betreiben kann. Dies erfordert die Existenz einer stabilen Geldnachfragefunktion na¤ch dem Übergang zu einer Europäischen Währungsunion. In...