This review summarises a survey of about 70 empirical studies on proposed African monetary unions published during the past fifteen years. Four main strands are outlined in four tables. They include the: (i) West African Monetary Zone (WAMZ), (ii) East African Monetary Union (EAMU), (iii)...

The so called ANFA secret protocol brought to the public's attention the previously only little noticed opportunity for national central banks of individual Eurozone members to create money through purchases of securities at their own expense. The ANFA financial assets amount to the significant...

Der aktuell wirkmächtige Ansatz der europäischen Integration ist durch die Gleichsetzung von Integration mit Vereinheitlichung geprägt. Die Autoren vertreten die Auffassung, dass diese zentralistische Wirtschaftssteuerung mittlerweile weit über das ökonomisch Erforderliche hinausgeht und...

Innerhalb einer Währungsunion ist eine souveräne nationale Geldpolitik nicht möglich. Solange die einzelnen Länder sich in verschiedenen ökonomischen Situationen befi nden, wirkt sich auch die gemeinsame Geldpolitik unterschiedlich aus. Sind die Länder zu heterogen, kann die gemeinsame...

Since the onset of the euro crisis, many aspects of the governance of the euro area have been reformed. Rules for budget control have been tightened, and oversight and resolution of banks has been centralised. Credit facilities have been created for member states who have trouble tapping...

Mitten in der Griechenland-Krise haben die Präsidenten der fünf wichtigsten europäischen Institutionen Vorschläge für eine weitere Integration der Europäischen Währungsunion unterbreitet. Sie beziehen sich dabei auf die Wirtschafts-, Finanzmarkt- und Bankenunion und gehen sogar so weit,...

In einer Währungsunion mit gemeinsamer Geldpolitik und Bankenaufsicht, aber fehlender Fiskalunion, ist die wechselseitige Abhängigkeit zwischen Banken und Staaten von besonderer Brisanz. Denn die Mitgliedstaaten verschulden sich in einer Währung, über die sie keine geldpolitische Hoheit...

Die anhaltende Niedrigzinsphase stellt Investoren vor die Herausforderung renditestarke Erträge außerhalb festverzinslicher Anlagen zu suchen. Aktienmärkte spielen hierbei eine herausgehobene Rolle. Doch insbesondere seit den 1990er Jahren durchlaufen die internationalen Aktienmärkte eine...

The eurozone is often considered to be the brainchild of Robert Mundell, who has often bragged about his paternity. In reality, the Eurozone setup, most specifically the TARGET2 settlement system, has several characteristics that look alike the plan for an international currency union that...

This study provides a survey of recent advances in the literature on proposed African monetary unions. The survey comprises about 60 empirical papers published during the past fifteen years. Four main strands are discussed individually and collectively, notably, the proposed: West African...

This study provides a survey of recent advances in the literature on proposed African monetary unions. The survey comprises about 60 empirical papers published during the past fifteen years. Four main strands are discussed individually and collectively, notably, the proposed: West African...

This paper studies the how government policy can influence positively public attitudes towards the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU).

Divergent macro-economic developments within a currency area can lead to undesired distortions. That is why in the Eurozone much attention was drawn to the homogeneity of the currency area. However, at the beginning the Eurozone seemed to be too heterogeneous for a common currency. So many hopes...

It is often disregarded that the euro is first of all a public good based on common institutions such the European Central Bank, the Governing Council and a network for executing transactions etc. Establishing a public good is fundamentally different from trade in private goods. A public good...

At the end of the postwar period, the politically shaped configurations of normatively integrated European political economies differed greatly among "social-market" and "liberal market economies." Such differences persist even though the characteristic achievements of social market economies...

Divergent macro-economic developments within a currency area can lead to undesired distortions. That is why in the Eurozone much attention was drawn to the homogeneity of the currency area. However, at the beginning the Eurozone seemed to be too heterogeneous for a common currency. So many hopes...

Countries in a monetary union can adjust to shocks either through internal or external mechanisms. We quantitatively assess for the European Union a number of relevant mechanisms suggested by Mundell’s optimal currency area theory, and compare them to the United States. For this purpose, we...

Dazu werden die relevanten institutionellen Aspekte des Federal Reserve Systems der USA und ihre Wirkung auf die ISA-Salden erläutert und mit den Verhältnissen in der Eurozone abgeglichen. Dabei stellt sich heraus, dass die Strukturen in den USA grundsätzlich geeignet sind, den Aufbau hoher...