A world-renowned economist offers cogent and powerful reflections on one of the great avoidable economic catastrophes of the modern era. The economic crisis in Greece is a potential international disaster and one of the most extraordinary monetary and political dramas of our time. The financial...

Euro-Krise, EZB, Währungsunion, Rettungsschirm. Begriffe wie diese begegnen Ihnen täglich in den Medien. Doch was bedeuten sie konkret? Wie funktioniert eine Währungsunion und welche Probleme bringt sie mit sich? Wie kam es zur Euro-Krise? Wie hat die Politik reagiert? Welche Wege gibt es...

Incomplete monetary union and Europe's current crisis -- From order to disorder : how monetary union changed national labor markets -- Monetary regimes, sectoral wage relations and the current account crisis in the EMU south : empirical evidence -- National central banks promoting inflation...

I analyze the optimal design of banking supervision in the presence of cross-border lending. Cross-border lending could imply that an individual bank failure in one country could trigger negative spillover effects in another country. Such cross-border contagion effects could turn out to be...