Introduction / Charles Goodhart, Daniela Gabor, Ismail Ertürk, and Jakob Vestergaard -- Constraining descretion in bank … bolster Europe's ailing banks / Jakob Vestergaard and Maria Retana -- Bank resolution in comparative perspective : what … Nier -- Bank resolution in New Zealand and its implications for Europe / David G. Mayes -- Collateral and monetary policy …

political issues: an accesible guide.This history and analysis of the euro and the European Central Bank traces the process of … European monetary integration from its beginnings as a utopian vision in the aftermath of World War II through the … establishment of a single currency managed by a central bank. Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, a central banker who has been involved in the …