The research in the area of economic governance relates to the following research questions:
The Economic Governance of the EU
- The economics of EU sustainability: Optimal currency areas, fiscal & monetary policy
- History of EU economic integration
- The legal and political constraints on EU evolution
- Which way forward?
Legal, economic and political foundations of the division of power between financial regulators
- ‘financial regulators’ include ECB, ESAs (EBA, ESMA, EIOPA), the ECB and the European Commission
- this topic could be approached from each of the three main perspectives of ECEFG (economics, law, and political science) , preferably integrated with one another
Legal and political foundations of extra-institutional initiatives
- ‘extra-institutional initiatives’ include ESM and SRF
How should financial crisis management decision/law-making be organized?
- this topic could be approached from each of the three main perspectives of ECEFG (economics, law, and political science) , preferably integrated with one another
- concerns both the interaction of public – private regulation as well as supranational – national regulation