Accounting-based capital maintenance is a traditional feature of the Continental-European system of creditor protection, serving as a correlative of the limited liability enjoyed by shareholders of corporations. Due to recent developments at the EU regulatory level, this system has come under...

In this article we analyse the role of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in the Financial Crisis. In detail we investigate if IFRS accounting rules and the change of some of their standards encouraged procyclical effects before and during the Financial Crisis. Copyright 2009 die...

The following paper deals on the problems of time inconsistency in connection with the stability and growth pact. The authors conclude that the current practice of application of the stability and growth pact is not appropriate for reducing the problems of time inconsistency. The stability pact...

By applying the concepts of institutional and constitutional economics, this paper addresses the question to what extent a reform of the stability pact will be efficient and appropriate. The starting point of the analysis is the assumption that the stability pact will yield disciplining effects...

The European competition policy can look back at a successful forty-year old practice of application by the European Commission. However, non-competition factors in the competition policy has become more and more relevant with the increasing importance of the so called positive integration. In a...