Mit den Beschlüssen zur europäischen Regulierung im Dezember 2012 hat die EU einen Schritt in Richtung Bankenunion gemacht. Nach Ansicht von Sabine Lautenschläger, Deutsche Bundesbank, braucht Europa Zeit, um eine europäische Bankenaufsicht und einen europäischen Abwicklungsmechanismus auf...

Markus Demary, Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln, plädiert für eine zweigeteilte Einführung der Bankenunion, für ausreichend kapitalisierte und für unterkapitalisierte Banken. Letztere sollten der EZB Restrukturierungspläne vorlegen, die diese genehmigen muss. Eine Abwicklung sollte...

In the first part (in the previous issue of Economic Review) of this two-part study, the authors identified a number of possible benefits from combining banking and commerce, including portfolio diversification, the creation of internal capital markets, and economies of scale and scope. This...

The policy debate on whether to strengthen or to remove the legal barriers between banking and commerce has paid little attention to what the practical effects of removing the barriers would be. To help answer this question, this article, the first part of a two-part study, provides an overview...

During the early modern age, shaping the mechanisms and guarantees of financial and commercial transactions was the basis for the expansion of commercial markets: the beginning of market globalization was due not only to the discovery of a new continent and new trade routes, but also to the...

We study the firm-level responses to a substantial increase in transportation costs in the wake of a quasi-experiment that introduced tolls in a subset of Portuguese highways. Exploiting a unique dataset encompassing the universe of Portuguese private firms, we find that the introduction of...