Die Unternehmensteuerreform ist eines der wichtigsten Projekte der Großen Koalition. Das Vorhaben soll die Bedingungen für Beschäftigung und Wachstum in Deutschland verbessern und die Staatsfinanzen stabilisieren. Gerhard Stratthaus, Finanzminister des Landes Baden-Württemberg, betrachtet...

Zum Jahresbeginn trat die Unternehmensteuerreform 2008 in Kraft. Christian Baretti, Doina Maria Radulescu und Michael Stimmelmayr untersuchen hier, inwieweit die Reform die Attraktivität des Wirtschaftsstandorts Deutschland verbessert wird. Ihrer Ansicht nach wird die Senkung der...

The prolonged crisis exposed the vulnerability of a monetary union without a banking union. The Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM), which started operating in November 2014, is an essential step towards restoring banks to health and rebuilding trust in the banking system. The ECB is today...

This paper presents an approach to a macroprudential stress test for the euro area banking system, comprising the 91 largest euro area credit institutions across 19 countries. The approach involves modelling banks'reactions to changing economic conditions. It also examines the effects of adverse...

This occasional paper describes how the financial stability and macroprudential policy functions are organised at the ECB. Financial stability has been a key policy function of the ECB since its inception. Macroprudential policy tasks were later conferred on the ECB by the Single Supervisory...