At present, Western European banks are increasingly branching out into asset management as well as the consulting business, which cannot be influenced directly by monetary controls. We have therefore conducted a factor analysis of banks' balance-sheet items, and we have also plotted figures from...

Over the last twenty years, the process of European integration, and improvements in the processing and transmission of information, have meant that the European financial system has become less bank-based and more market-based. This trend has been reinforced by the transition to a single...

At present, Western European banks are increasingly branching out into asset management as well as the consulting business, which cannot be influenced directly by monetary controls. We have therefore conducted a factor analysis of banks' balance-sheet items, and we have also plotted figures from...

Dieses Buch soll in die Geldtheorie und daraus abgeleitete Konsequenzen für die Geldpolitik einführen; theoretische, politische sowie institutionelle Aspekte werden dabei verknüpft. -- Nach einem knappen Überblick über die historische Entwicklung des Geldwesens sowie die Funktionen des...