We analyze the impact of financial crises and monetary policy on the supply of wholesale funding liquidity, and also on the compositional supply effects through cross-border and relationship lending. For empirical identification, we draw on the proprietary bank-to-bank European interbank dataset...

Im Juni 1998 nahm die EZB ihre Arbeit auf, sie gilt als Testfall für das zukünftig stärker geeinte Europa. Obwohl die Protokolle der Ratssitzungen nicht öffentlich zugänglich sind, gelingt es dem zur Zeit in Bonn lebenden amerikanischen Wirtschaftsjournalisten durch genaue Recherche und...

"Central bank collateral frameworks are an often overlooked feature of monetary policy that play a key role in the monetary and financial system. Readers will discover how central banks conduct and implement monetary policy beyond merely setting interest rates, and develop their understanding as...

The age of the euro has cast central banks in a newly prominent role in European integration and in macro-economic policy making in Europe. This text examines the effects of the euro as the new European single currency on the central banks of the member states of the European Union