In a dual liquidity crisis, both the government and the banking sector are under severe funding stress. By nature, dual crises have the potential of being particularly disruptive and damaging. Thus, understanding their mechanics, how they unfold and how they can be addressed under various...

Financial development and financial institution building are important prerequisites for economic growth. However, both the potential and the problems of institution building are still vastly underestimated by those who design and fund institution building projects. The paper first underlines...

Das Bundesverfassungsgericht hat klar zum Ausdruck gebracht, dass es das OMT-Programm der EZB für verfassungswidrig hält. Dieser Beitrag zeigt, dass der Beschluss wesentlich darauf beruht, dass die Richter der Theorie effizienter Märkte und den sich daraus ergebenden geldpolitischen...

Aus Anlass des 80. Geburtstags des Buchs "Der Weg zur Knechtschaft" von F. A. Hayek haben Veronika Grimm, Stefan Kolev und Jens Weidmann auf dessen Kernbotschaften aufmerksam gemacht. Dabei relativieren sie den Ideologievorwurf, der dem Buch gemacht wird, indem sie in Frageform evidenzbasierte...

Financial globalisation has been associated with divergent current account patterns in emerging market economies. While countries in emerging Asia have been running sizeable current account surpluses, countries in emerging Europe have been facing large current account deficits. In this paper we...

Within the last decade sizeable capital inflows from mature economies were accompanied by rapid financial deepening in the Western Balkans, Turkey and the CIS. Notwithstanding their considerably different initial positions most countries sustained financial stability in the first period of the...

Foreign banks have increased their market share in many emerging markets since the mid-1990s. We examine whether this contributed to financial stability in the respective host countries in the global financial crisis. Our results suggest that the stabilizing impact of foreign banks was limited...

Zehn Jahre nach Beginn des Reformprozesses in Mittel- und Osteuropa stehen der Aufbau eines leistungsfähigen Sektors privater kleiner und mittlerer Unternehmen (KMU) sowie die Gestaltung eines effizienten Finanzsystems im Mittelpunkt der Bemühungen der wirtschaftspolitisch Verantwortlichen vor...

The increasing incidence and intensity of crises in the international financial markets during the 1990s have given new impetus to the debate on reform of the international financial system. Much of the discussion focuses on the idea of an international lender of last resort which could provide...