‘The European Central Bank: The Bank that rules Europe?'

The domestic market rate almost constantly coincided with the Bank’s discount rate, which acted as its upper bound (see table 1). It might be tempting to infer that the

This framework lead to emphasize the role of institutions in economic performances, especially labour market institutions.. These institutions lead to diverse rigidities which

This paper assesses the transmission of ECB monetary policies, conventional and unconventional, to both interest rates and lending volumes for the money market, sovereign bonds

However, from the outbreak of the sovereign debt crisis, ECB nonconventional monetary policies had significant, if indirect, impact upon the direction of

banking union; Bundestag; European Central Bank; Eurozone crisis; Germany; national parliaments; plenary debates;

While ‘rationalist’ aims might have contributed to the EIB’s entrepreneurial promotion of PPPs, this paper argues that there is stronger evidence that norms

Drawing on archives and oral history sources, this paper aims to illustrate the political and regulatory context surrounding the EIB’s relocation to Luxembourg, exploring

As the OMT Programme was designed to safeguard both “an appropriate monetary policy transmission mechanism and the singleness of the monetary policy ”, the CJEU qualified the