Bank debit cards may look like credit cards, but they certainly do not act like them when it comes to account overdrafts. This does not suggest that credit cards are better than debit cards, as complaints abound concerning the transparency of fees charged to consumers for credit card...

While the appearance of debit and credit cards is similar, the attributes have significant differences, particularly when it comes to account overdrafts. This does not suggest that credit cards are somehow superior products, as complaints abound concerning credit card fees. Nevertheless,...

We discuss the prospects for Chinese money market development and transition to market-based monetary policy operations based on a comparative historical analysis of the present Chinese situation and the development in 11 European countries from 1979 up to the launch of European Economic and...

The European Central Bank (ECB) ranks highly on the author's proposed central bank disclosure inidcator, measuring activities of central banks to enhance the public's understanding of their policies. Nevertheless, the survey evidence offered in this contribution suggests that private-sector...

Few decisions of the Court of Justice of the EU have provoked more diverse, and more critical, reactions than its two decisions on the legality of the ECB’s asset purchase programmes, Gauweiler and Weiss. Few are of greater importance, given that unprecedented exogenous shocks are likely to...

The apolitical nature of the monetary policy is a myth. As far as the ECB secondary objectives (Article 3(3) TEU) are concerned, it is worth mentioning the CSPP´s bias in favour of polluters, as firms whose securities are purchased under the CSPP have a disproportionate carbon footprint. Such...