Recently, convincing evidence has been presented that the recession in the wake of the recent financial crisis resulted primarily from an overly levered housing sector that was forced to deleverage and cut consumption spending when faced with collapsing housing prices. Following this...

Recently it has often been claimed that globalization eases the job of central banks as it helps to tame inflation. This is used to argue that central banks (particularly the ECB, referring to the objectives as laid down in the EU Treaty) could or should reduce their efforts in the fight against...

Recently, it has often been argued that globalization eases the job of central banks as it helps to tame inflation. This is used to argue that central banks (particularly the ECB, referring to the objectives as laid down in the EU-Treaty) could or should reduce their efforts in the fight against...

In dieser Arbeit wird der Frage nachgegangen, wie die Entstehung und Ausbreitung von Währungskrisen theoretisch zu erklären ist. Nach einem Überblick über die etablierten Erklärungsansätze zur Krisenentstehung werden schwerpunktmäßig zwei Thesen zur Krisenausbreitung untersucht. Erstens...