This paper focuses on roots of strain in the European Monetary Union (EMU). It argues that there is need for a thorough reform of the governance structure of the Union in conjunction with radical changes in the regulation and supervision of financial markets. Financial intermediation has gone...

The world economy has not still recovered from the effects of the financial crisis that began almost a decade ago first in the US and then in Europe. Policy response to the crisis, the combination of fiscal restraint and ultra-easy monetary policy, has not only failed to bring about a robust...

This paper reviews the impact of the global financial turmoil and the subsequent recession on the economies of southern and eastern Mediterranean countries. The major effects on the economies of this region have come through transmission channels associated with the real economy, i.e. the global...

The paper first reviews the main drivers of the growth and real convergence process in central, eastern and south-eastern Europe (CESEE) since 2000 and assesses the key macro-financial strengths and vulnerabilities of the region at the beginning of the global economic and financial crisis. The...

We review the major provisions of Dodd-Frank, focusing on the monitoring of systemic risk, the limitation on proprietary trading, the regulation of the hedge fund industry, credit rating agencies, and the rules applicable to derivative trading. We compare these provisions with the recent...

Die größte Wirtschaftskrise seit der Großen Depression in den 1930er Jahren wurde durch die Insolvenz der Investmentbank Lehman Brothers am 15. September 2008 drastisch verschärft. Dies stürzte die Finanzmärkte in eine Vertrauenskrise, die beinahe zum Zusammenbruch des weltweiten...

In modernen Gesellschaften steht das Thema Gerechtigkeit ganz oben auf der politischen Agenda. Viele Menschen sind der Ansicht, die soziale Gerechtigkeit habe in den letzten Jahren abgenommen. Unklar bleibt dabei, was unter Gerechtigkeit verstanden wird. Der Gerechtigkeitsindex des Instituts der...

What is often abbreviated to GFC included three distinct crises: the 2007-8 North Atlantic financial crisis, a 2008-9 global economic crisis and public finance crises which became increasingly focussed on the eurozone in 2010-12. The relative weight of emerging market economies in the global...