Financial innovations are currently displacing traditional methods of Euro-currency financing, while in Germany and Japan there is talk of establishing international free banking zones along American lines. What are the reasons for these developments and how are they affecting the Euromarket?

Demands for control of the expanding Euromarkets have been voiced for some time. On what grounds are they based? What form could this control take? These issues are discussed by Manfred Lahnstein. Further comments on these problems can be found in the following article by Wilfried Guth.

Europeans have a tendency to call the financial crisis a US problem, or a crisis precipitated by the "Anglo-Saxon" model. The data suggest otherwise. Moreover, the corporate sector in Europe has a much lower capacity to finance investment from internal sources of funds, which implies that a...

Policymakers in the EU member states are currently shaping rescue packages to prevent the financial crisis hitting their economies with unmitigated force. Each government is responding to the emerging problems with a country-specific set of measures. Given the global nature of the crisis, would...