The Target liabilities of the GIPS countries (Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain) amounted to314 billion euros in March 2011. They measure the additional central bank money that their corresponding National Central Banks (NCBs) have loaned in excess of the money needed to cover their domestic...

It has recently been argued that intra-eurosystem claims and liabilities in the form of TARGET2 balances would raise fundamental issues within the European monetary union. This article provides a framework for the economic analysis of TARGET2 balances and discusses the key arguments behind this...

Target-Kredite im Eurosystem - Die Stellungnahmen der Bundesbank - Was sind Target-Salden? - Kreditverlagerung - Zur ökonomischen Interpretation der Kreditverlagerung - Target-Kredite, Leistungsbilanz und Kapitalverkehr - Fünf vor zwölf - Target-Salden in den USA - Anhang: Antwort auf die...