Symposium on “The euro: (Greek) tragedy or Europe’s destiny? Economic, historical and legal perspectives on the common currency” (Bayreuth, Germany, 11-12 January 2012) Dr Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol is invited as a discussant to the Symposium on the Euro Crisis organized by the University of Bayreuth on 11-12 January 2012. For more details, see the conference programme and… Continue reading
Are we bad students or do we have poor teachers: why don’t we learn the lessons from previous crises? The global financial crisis of 2007/8 revealed many flaws in the system of regulating and supervising the international banking and financial system. This article shows that most of these flaws had been recognised in earlier… Continue reading
Governance of Governors: the 1974 international banking crisis and the early deliberations of the Basel Committee The 2007 global financial crisis exposed a range of weaknesses in the fabric of prudential supervision both at national and international level. Given the failure of the Basel Committee framework to develop effective rules that can be implemented… Continue reading
In this paper, Dr Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol sheds light on the current euro crisis by looking at the debates preceding the conception of the euro. How can the early days of EU monetary cooperation help us understand today’s predicament? And what lessons can we draw from them for the euro? Reference Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol, The Euro… Continue reading
