Dr. Nienhaus notes that whereas the bulk of the literature on Islamic interest-free banking assumes an economy from which interest has been completely abolished, existing Islamic banks have actually to operate in an interest-based system in competition with interest-based banks. This being the...

This paper investigates the credit channel in Germany and the United Kingdom. The financial systems of these two countries show substantial structural differences, which leads one to expect that their real sectors respond differently to changes in monetary policy. To the extent that this is the...