Übersicht zur Entwicklung des Bank- und Kreditwesens im frankophonen Afrika mit dem Schwerpunkt der Rolle französischer Kreditinstitutionen. Multilaterale und nationale Entwicklungsbanken werden ebenso untersucht wie Kreditinstitute, die spezielle regionale oder sektorale Projekte fördern....

Latin American has the longest history of regional integration efforts in the developing world. This paper analyzes the experience of regional monetary cooperation in Latin America over the past three decades. This experience has been overall successful but also uneven, both in terms of country...

Against the background of the recent housing boom and bust in countries such as Spain and Ireland, we investigate in this paper the macroeconomic consequences of cross-border banking in monetary unions such as the euro area. For this purpose, we incorporate in an otherwise standard two-region...