This paper tests for the existence of market power in banking, using data on demand deposit rates of households and corresponding market rates in five euro area countries. An implicit measure for market power is based on a partial adjustment model that also allows for an asymmetric response of...

The structural VAR models for European countries (France, Denmark, and Germany) are developed to examine the monetary policy reactions, especially the within-ERM exchange rate stabilization, during the ERM period. First, impulse responses of monetary instrument and the exchange rate to shocks...

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)