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In light of the rise to prominence of the European Central Bank, caused by the Global Financial Crisis and the following Euro area sovereign debt crisis, this collection reflects on the past and the future of this powerful and contested institution.
List of contents
- 1: Thomas Beukers, Diane Fromage and Giorgio Monti: Introduction: the 'new' European Central Bank
- The ECB's response to the financial and sovereign debt crisis: Unconventional monetary policy and the lender of last resort function
- 2: Vestert Borger: The transformation of the ECB in sovereign bond markets
- 3: Klaus Tuori: The ECB's unconventional quantitative easing is turning to conventional monetary policy
- 4: Jens van 't Klooster: The ECB's collateral framework from the 1990s till the present
- Moving beyond monetary policy: The ECB, financial stability, economic integration and the (future of the) Banking Union
- 5: Agnieszka Smole?ska and Thomas Beukers: The ECB and financial stability
- 6: Jonathan Bauerschmidt: The ECB and economic integration
- 7: Kern Alexander: The ECB's role in the European Banking Union
- 8: Federico Della Negra and Gianni Lo Schiavo: The relationship between the ECB and theNational competent authorities in the single supervisory mechanism: Problems and perspectives
- 9: Florin Coman-Kund: The role of the ECB in the international arena and the external dimension of EMU: a 'new' ECB within a crippled legal framework?
- Institutional setting: the ECB's 'institutional logic' and its relationship with governments, courts and parliaments
- 10: Alexander Thiele: The independence of the ECB: Justification, challenges and possible threats
- 11: Fabian Amtenbrink and Menelaos Markakis: The legitimacy and accountability of the ECB at the age of twenty
- 12: Takis Tridimas: The ECB and the Court of Justice: Old toolbox, new problems
- 13: Diane Fromage: Assessing and (re-)situating today's ECB in the EU's institutional landscape
- 14: Ad van Riet: The ECB in the new normal: Organizing fiscal support for monetary policy
- A contextual analysis of the ECB
- 15: Christy-Ann Petit: The ECB mandate - a comparative constitutional perspective
- 16: Marijn van der Sluis: The Role of Constitutional Law for the ECB: Past, Present and Future
- 17: René Smits: The ECB's E-ROAD ahead
About the author
Thomas Beukers is a Senior Legal Advisor at the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and editor of the European Constitutional Law Review. His research includes the relationship between law and politics, the constitutional law of the European Union, and the constitutional development of the European Union, and Economic and Monetary Union.
Diane Fromage has been a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellow at Sciences Po Paris (Law School, IMPACTEBU Project) since September 2020. Her research focuses mostly on the Economic and Monetary Union and the Banking Union especially and on parliaments in the European Union.
Giorgio Monti is Professor of Competition Law at Tilburg Law School. He is joint editor of the Common Market Law Review. His research is in the fields of competition law and European Union Law.
Summary
In light of the rise to prominence of the European Central Bank, caused by the Global Financial Crisis and the following Euro area sovereign debt crisis, this collection reflects on the past and the future of this powerful and contested institution.
