There is some evidence that interdependencies among European banks have increased over the past 15 years and that the potential of systemic risks in banking has shifted from a national level to a European level. / Whereas wholesale financial markets are considered to be highly integrated within...

Die Bundesregierung beabsichtigt, der Deutschen Bundesbank eine neue Struktur zu geben. Die bislang im Leitungsgremium vertretenen Landeszentralbankpräsidenten sollen entfallen und der neue Vorstand von der Bundesregierung ernannt werden. Der Bundesrat hat diese Vorschläge zurückgewiesen....

This paper analyses whether interest rate paths in the EMU member countries would have been different if the previous national central banks had not handed over monetary policy to the ECB. Using estimates of monetary policy reaction functions over the last 20 years before the formation of EMU,...