In der Verhandlung vor dem Europäischen Gerichtshof (EuGH) über das Programm der EZB zum Ankauf von Staatsanleihen (Public Sector Purchasing Programme: PSPP) geht es im Kern um die Frage, ob das Programm die Grenze zur verbotenen monetären Staatsfinanzierung überschreitet oder noch eindeutig...

European financial regulation consistently gives governments privileged access to private investors, reflecting the anchor role assigned to sovereign securities as safe and liquid assets for the financial system. Legislative reforms after the financial crisis of 2008 further expanded the...

This paper investigates the capital market relations between Euroland and the USA from 1990 until 2006. Formally based on the uncovered interest rate parity (UIP), backward recursive estimations establish a long-run equilibrium between European and US government bond yields. Since the mid-1990s...