This paper seeks to understand the interplay between banks, bank regulation, sovereign default risk and central bank guarantees in a monetary union. I assume that banks can use sovereign bonds for repurchase agreements with a common central bank, and that their sovereign partially backs up any...

The pending enlargement of the European Monetary Union (EMU) has brought to the fore the discussion of the voting right distribution in the European Central Bank (ECB) council. We show that, in a model where labor unions internalize the inflationary consequences of wage setting, deviating from a...

The treatise contributes to the ongoing debate on the definition and the ranking of price stability in context with targets of economic policy in market economies and reflects on the theoretical roots and on the role of monetary policy in a medium-term and a long-term oriented view. Referring to...