The purpose of this paper is to examine the effectiveness of the policies and procedures towards economic convergence between the countries that participated in the European Exchange Mechanism I and which are now members states of the Eurozone. The question is whether the introduction of the...

1. Regulatory reasons for the crisis <br>2. Refinancing credit and Target balances <br>2.1 Target balances <br>2.2 Target balances and fiscal rescue credit <br>2.3 The lowering of collateral standards for refinancing credit <br>2.4 Indirect state financing via refinancing credit to commercial banks <br>3. ECB...

The aim of the article is to examine the degree of the long-run interest rate convergence in the context of Poland's joining the EMU. In this perspective, it is frequently argued that the expectations of Poland's participation in the EMU should manifest themselves in long-run interest rate...

This paper examines the real effects of financial stress in the Euro-zone, using two identification strategies based on a Bayesian Structural VAR and a Sign-Restriction VAR. As expansionary monetary policy has been blamed to have fuelled asset price bubble, it is important to assess the...

The aim of the article is to examine the actual degree of Polish monetary policy independence in the context of joining the Eurozone. It is frequently argued that the main cost of the participation in the EMU, or in any other common currency area, is the loss of monetary policy independence. In...

Finance and financial markets were at the heart of the global economic crisis that began in August 2007. 2010 has seen the transformation of the global financial crisis into a sovereign debt crisis in the Eurozone. Starting from Greece, the debt crisis has put intense pressure on the bonds of...

Manfred Borchert, Prof. em. Universität Münster, plädiert in seinem Kommentar dafür, das Wertpapier-Portefeuille von Banken durch eine bestimmte Quote zum Eigenkapital zu begrenzen.

A number of economists, following Professor Hans-Werner SINN, President of the Munich Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (Ifo), have opened a debate on the true significance and the risks entailed by the system of compensation operating within the Eurozone, TARGET2 (Trans-European Automated...

This paper seeks to evaluate quantitatively how interbank and corporate cross-border flows shape business cycles in a monetary union. Using Bayesian techniques, we estimate a two-country DSGE model that distinguishes between Eurozone core and peripheral countries and accounts for national...