This lecture discusses the 2010 crisis of the European Monetary Union and draws some lessons for reform. Crisis resolution has been difficult because the sovereign debt crisis of countries like Greece and Portugal has come together with real-estate and banking crises in countries like Ireland...

Reforms of financial regulation after the crisis of 2007-2009 raise the question of what is the relation between financial regulators and competition authorities. Should competition authorities play a role in financial regulation? Should they co-operate with financial regulators? Or should they...

In Deutschland wird die Aufsicht über die Banken arbeitsteilig von der Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht und der Deutschen Bundesbank durchgeführt, wobei sie vor allem an die Vorgaben des Kreditwesengesetzes gebunden ist. Die Finanzkrise, die im Sommer 2007 ihren Anfang nahm,...

This lecture discusses the 2010 crisis of the European Monetary Union and draws some lessons for reform. Crisis resolution has been difficult because the sovereign debt crisis of countries like Greece and Portugal has come together with real-estate and banking crises in countries like Ireland...