SUERF – The European Money and Finance Forum, the Deutsche Bundesbank and the Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability (IMFS) took the opportunity of the first anniversary of this new institution to organise a joint conference in Berlin on 8-9 November 2011. The purpose of this event was...

L'ouvrage réalise une analyse pluridisciplinaire dʹune institution devenue incontournable sur le territoire de lʹUnion européenne. Lʹaccroissement des missions confiées à la Banque centrale européenne suscite de nombreuses interrogations. Le présent ouvrage a pour ambition dʹy apporter...

Over millennia, mankind has used hard cash in various forms ranging from shells to gold coins and paper. More recently, cash has become unpopular in political circles, as it effectively restricts states’ power to tax (explicitly or via negative interest rates) or to survey and potentially...