This article analyses the role displayed by TARGET balances in the European Monetary Union (EMU). In the context of the European financial crisis, very large TARGET unbalances became crucial, reflecting funding stress in the banking systems of most crisis-hit countries. The increase in TARGET...

This paper discusses several key issues regarding the present European economic and financial Great Crisis, which essentially is a twin sovereign debt and banking crisis. The shift of the recent world financial crisis into a European sovereign debt crisis is tackled by analysing how via the...