We study a model in which policy aims at aggregate price stability. A fiscal imbalance materializes that, if uncorrected, must cause inflation, but the imbalance may get corrected in the future with some probability. By maintaining price stability in the near term, monetary policy can buy time...

This paper reviews the performance of the euro area since the euro's launch 20 years ago. It argues that the euro crisis has exposed existential flaws in the euro regime. Intra-area divergences and the corresponding buildup of imbalances had remained unchecked prior to the crisis. As those...

We analyze how financial crises affect international financial integration, exploiting euro area proprietary interbank data, crisis and monetary policy shocks, and variation in loan terms to the same borrower on the same day by domestic versus foreign lenders. Crisis shocks reduce the supply of...

Hans-Olaf Henkel (Jahrgang 1940), früherer Präsident des Bundesverbands der Deutschen Industrie und heute Professor für Betriebswirtschaftslehre an der Universität Mannheim, analysiert hier schonungslos die Ursachen der globalen Krise und den Aktionismus der Politik. (Jürgen Plieninger)