The dissertation includes four studies broadly connected to the causes and consequences of the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-8 from a political economy perspective. Following the intro-duction, Chapter 2 analyzes the political roots of massive foreign reserves accumulation, which has...

The work is a normative approach towards the financial stability of a society comprising banks, firms, and a central bank (research field: macroeconomics/financial stability). I propose new rules that will endogenously emerge from the analysis to decrease the financial instability of the system....

Die Arbeit stellt eine erste theoretische Analyse der Wirksamkeit und möglicher Probleme einer marktbasierten Eigenkapitalregulierung in Form einer regulatorischen Nachschusspflicht dar. Hart und Zingales (2011) schlagen vor, dass Finanzinstitute zusätzliches Eigenkapital aufnehmen sollen,...

The replacement of a multi-currency system by a single currency on the basis of the European Economic and Monetary Unit is the stage in the same integration and convergence process; monetary policy that recently was the matter of each state was handed over to the European Central Bank. A...

A high inflation rate is the main obstacle prohibiting euro lead into the state, that‘s why the inflation theme is the urgent one. We analyzed the inflation not only from the economic perspective, but from the legal side too. The changes of property forms, legal tends, extent of inflation,...

Is inflation targeting an appropriate framework for monetary policy? Experience from the inflation-targeting countries countries are optimistic about inflation targeting as a monetary-policy framework. South Africa is also following this trend.The international literature review of the topic...