Germany's brake on European capital-market development
Grahl, John and Lysandrou, Photis (2018) Germany's brake on European capital-market development. European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: Intervention, 15 (3) . pp. 364-381. ISSN 2052-7772 [Article] (doi:10.4337/ejeep.2018.0034)
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Abstract
In February 2015, the European Commission published a Green Paper in which it put forward the goal to ‘build a true single market for capital’ for all European Union member states by 2019. The present paper argues that there is no realistic prospect of achieving this goal given that the Green Paper omits any reference to a formidable impediment blocking a European capital-market union: the German government's stance on debt. The inescapable fact is that this government's reluctance to increase the supply of its bonds is depriving the European capital market of one of the essential ingredients necessary to its enlargement on the one hand and to the efficiency of its operation on the other: the former because capital-market enlargement crucially depends on attracting institutional investors who must hold a substantial proportion of their bond portfolios in the form of safe government bonds; the latter because the efficient functioning of the capital markets crucially depends on the efficiency of the money markets where safe government bonds are by far the most important form of collateral.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Research Areas: | A. > Business School > Economics |
| Item ID: | 25697 |
| Notes on copyright: | © John Grahl and Photis Lysandrou, 2018.The definitive, peer reviewed and edited version of this article is published in European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: Intervention, vol. 15, iss. 3, pages 364-381, year 2018 |
| Depositing User: | Jisc Publications Router |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Nov 2018 15:27 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Nov 2022 19:31 |
| URI: | https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/id/eprint/25697 |
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