Obwohl die Idee der makroökonomischen Perspektive der Regulierung des Banken- und Finanzmarktes bereits in den 1970er und 1980er Jahren entstand, hat dieser Ansatz erst durch die Immobilien- und Finanzkrise dieses Jahrhunderts große Bedeutung erlangt. Aufgrund mangelnder Erfahrungen der...

I review the state of the art of the academic theoretical and empirical literature on the potential trade-off between competition and stability in banking. There are two basic channels through which competition may increase instability: by exacerbating the coordination problem of...

This paper surveys a wide body of economic literature on the relationship between currencies and trade. Specifically, two main issues are investigated: the impact on international trade of exchange rate volatility and of currency misalignments. On average, exchange rate volatility has a negative...