Climate change has become relevant for central banks worldwide, but they are adopting their instruments at different speeds. This article compares the reactions of the Eurosystem with those of the other EU central banks. Do these central banks differ in their efforts to make their own policies...

Die Krise in Griechenland ist viel mehr als eine blosse Finanzkrise. Die Autoren dieses Sammelbands widmen sich in 28 Beiträgen allen ihren wesentlichen Aspekten. Sie räumen mit auf die Antike fixierten Vorstellungen über das heutige Griechenland auf, gehen kritisch auf Mentalität und...

Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- I.1. The purposes of money -- I.1.1. Money as a tool for transactions -- I.1.2. Money as a standard of values -- I.1.3. Currency as a reserve of value -- I.2. Evolution of the different media of...

Intro -- Contents -- 1. Introduction / Barry Eichengreen and Jeffry Frieden -- Part 1: Economic and Monetary Union -- 2. The Transition to Economic and Monetary Union / Geoffrey Garrett -- 3. The Political Economy of French Economic Policy in the Perspective of EMU / Christian de Boissieu and...

Front -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Unhappy family -- 2 Dashed illusions -- 3 The German question revisited -- 4 Winners and losers -- 5 A dangerous vacuum -- 6 Irreparable errors -- 7 The technocrats stumble -- 8 A bank unlike the others -- 9 The Cyprus cauldron -- 10 Sovereignty...