The financial supervisory system in the European Union is largely national based. Against the background of increasing integration of European financial markets, this supervisory fragmentation brings about costs.…
Many of the urgent problems of Germanys economy trace back to its poor growth performance in the recent decade. The current reduced growth path intensifies already existing structural problems on job markets, in…
The aim of the project was to analyse a new instrument for development finance. The so called "Venture Development Bonds" are sovereign bonds that are linked to major macroeconomic variables (particularly the GDP;…
The project Financial behaviour of banks under the influence of banking regulation and political factors aims at analyzing the capital and payout policy of German banks in greater detail. First of all it is…
The project is part of the program WIN-Kolleg carried out by the Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften. The objective is an interdisciplinary investigation of how a European constitution can be developed and…