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Aufsatz: Seite 1–61
Andreas Witte
"Zum Golde drängte alles"? / "Toward Gold thronged all?"
Die Genese des klassischen Goldstandards, diskretionäre Notenbankpolitik und das Klischee von Mythos versus Realität / The Genesis of the Classical Gold Standard, Discretionary Central Bank Policy and the Cliché of Myth versus Reality
This article attempts, on the one hand, to give an updated and commented overview of the contemporary array of opinions on the subject of the gold standard; on the other, it will take its own critical look at this currency regime. To this end, firstly, the principles and mechanisms which constitute the basis for such a monetary system will be presented so as to mehr...
identify and analyse the historical genesis of the international gold regime. Secondly, a number of contributions from the body of literature on national economy are discussed, including statements on the question of the characteristics to be expected from a metallic currency. Ultimately, these theoretical forecasts are to be tested empirically. The article concludes with an overview of the results and the author's assessment of the gold standard and the literature about it.
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Miszelle: Seite 62–78
Holger Blisse / Markus Hanisch
Bankengruppen übergreifende Tendenzen im deutschen Bankensystem? / Cross-bank Trends in the German Banking System?
The 'three columns' of the German banking system, composed of private commercial banks, institutions subject to public law (savings banks and 'Landesbanken') and cooperative banks, could be seen as a firm structure, but have triggered wide discussions time and again. Unlike, for instance, the situation in Italy and France, where the way to the private mehr...
legal form was eased for the savings banks, in Germany mergers appear to take place only within the individual 'column' or banking groups, while banks that switched between groups over the course of their existence constitute the exception. Within the scope of an example-oriented review of a banking group in the cooperative sector, the present article endeavours to examine where and to what extent changes in the affiliation of individual banks have taken place over the course of time and in which business segments banks from different banking groups have collaborated.
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Rezensionen: Seite 79–100
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