The present monetary strategy within the DM-standard is shown to be inefficient and an improvement of the current strategy is proposed.

The current discussion about stability of the European money demand function is flawed by a confusion of two different concepts of stability (adjustment speed versus error variance). The meaning and importance of the underlying notions of stability is clarified. It is demonstrated that necessary...

The hypothesis of the paper that the European money demand function is more stable than the money demand function of any single European country is based on the well known portfolio diversification principle. Econometric estimates of country specific and European money demand functions confirm...

The international transmission of economic disturbances is analysed in a three-country world where two countries have no macroeconomic impact on a third country but are large enough to influence each other under a system of mixed exchange rates - a system that combines the fixed exchange rates...

Mit der EWU ist ein Seignorage-Gewinn/Verlust-Pooling verbunden, aufgrund dessen Deutschland Verluste durch Netto-Transferzahlungen in den Seignorage-Pool erzielen kann. Mit der Einführung des Euro verliert Deutschland vor allem seinen Wettbewerbsvorsprung auf dem internationalen...

This paper analyzes the international transmission of economic distur-bances in a three-country world where two countries have no macroeconomic impact on a third country but are large enough to influence each other un-der fixed and flexible exchange rates. While the fixed exchange rate (FER)...

The international transmission of economic disturbances is analysed in a three-country world where two countries have no macroeconomic impact on a third country but are large enough to influence each other under a system of mixed exchange rates - a system that combines the fixed exchange rates...

To deal with changes of capitalized seignorage due to EMU, we supply the still missing capital-theoretical framework. We show that seignorage pooling of EMU is composed of two components, a dynamic component and a static component. By its dynamic component, the pool provides insurance against...