This thesis aims to analyse the connection between the Eurozone's balance of payments crisis and the TARGET 2 balances. These balances represent mutual clearing relationship of the individual euro area member states to the European Central Bank inside the TARGET 2 system, which serves as a heart of the Eurozone's payment settlements. In fact, the central banks of the core countries hold significant positive balances while the peripheral central banks accumulated substantial negative positions. The TARGET 2 balances appeared mainly as a consequence of the liquidity outflow from the peripheral countries to the core due to the large imbalances in fundamental factors such as the NCA deficits, net foreign debt, public and private debt or competitiveness. The development of the balances was further facilitated via uneven liquidity provisions from the Eurosystem, as the peripheral countries effectively financed their balance of payments disequilibrium by issuing new liquidity that almost immediately moved to the core. The banking systems of the core started to operate in the liquidity excess status as the monetary base increased in 2011 and 2012. Assets with questionable quality collateralized the increasing refinancing operations in the periphery as the collateral requirements were repeatedly lowered. It resulted in an increase in the credit risk of these operations primarily in the periphery countries. This situation, among many others presented in this thesis, raises further questions about the parameters of the future single monetary policy as well as the continuance of the European monetary union.

The thesis analyses the change of monetary policy of the European central bank during financial and sovereign debt crisis. Main focus of the thesis is given on the analysis of non-standard measures of monetary policy of the ECB. This thesis explains in detail how the ECB has responded to the various phases of the financial and debt crisis, starting with the period of financial turmoil, continuing with the intensification of the financial crisis and the sovereign debt crisis. Finally, the thesis compares these phases and assesses the impact of these non-standard measures.

Relations of Central bank to Commercial banks The purpose of my thesis is to analyse relations among central bank and commercial banks in current view with emphasising on situation in the Czech Republic. This analysis is a critical appraisal of issues in relation to current legislation, and last but not least also the planned changes, which are currently under discussion. The thesis is divided into five chapters with introduction and abstract. Chapter One is introductory and defines basic terminology used in the thesis like banking system, central bank and commercial banks. This chapter is subdivided into four parts. Part One describes central bank and banking system. Part Two describes central bank, its position, activity and tools. Part Third is focused on commercial banks. Final part deals with trends in the development of the banking sector. Chapter Two characterises subjects of banking system in the Czech Republic and is divided into two parts. Part One outlines organizational structure of the CNB and its main functions. Part Two outlines organizational structure of commercials banks in the Czech Republic. Chapter Three concentrates on banking regulation and supervision and its division. Part One analyzes arguments for and against bank regulation. Part Two is focused on banking regulation and...

The aim of this diploma thesis is to evaluate what influence has the ECB decision-making on the Eurozone economy and above all to consider the ECB's involvement in solving of the recent financial and persisting European debt crisis. First two chapters represent rather a theoretical part of the thesis, in which the author is dealing generally with the importance and the role of the ECB in the course of the European integration, including its origin, its management structure and internal decision-making process. The second chapter focuses in detail on the ECB's tasks and competencies with emphasise mainly on the monetary policy and on the clarification how a so called transmission mechanism enables the measures adopted within the monetary policy to transform into the real economy. There is also more elaborated the primary task of ECB which is to maintain the price stability. The second part of this thesis is more analytical and reflects current trends and development in the EU banking sector with an accent on the ECB's attitudes. The recent financial crisis is discussed in the third chapter together with the new regulatory rules. Financial crisis tend to have some joint characteristics like e.g. the source of their origin that often lies in an excessive and rapid loan expansion, in leverage increase,...

Les trois chapitres de cette thèse ont pour objectif de contribuer à une meilleure compréhension de la manière dont les politiques non-conventionnelles affectent les prix d’actifs. Ils revisitent également de manière empirique la question de l’impact de l’offre sur les prix d’actifs, et plus généralement des limites imposées à l’arbitrage, des frictions dans la réallocation des portefeuilles. Chaque chapitre présente de nouvelles données permettant de quantifier les mécanismes à l’œuvre dans le cas du programme d’achat d’actifs de l’Eurosystème (APP). Le chapitre 1 propose un modèle de portefeuille simple permettant de penser les mesures non conventionnelles dans un cadre cohérent. Les exercices empiriques confirment l’existence de plusieurs canaux de transmission des prix et évaluent l’impact de l’APP. Le chapitre 2 jette un nouvel éclairage sur le canal du rééquilibrage de portefeuille. Les fortes frictions liées à la réallocation, la forte demande d’“habitat préféré” et le faible niveau de substituabilité entre actifs permettent d’avoir un impact sur les prix, tout en limitant possiblement les retombées sur l’économie. Le chapitre 3 suggère que l’effet des achats de titres passe également si ce n’est en premier lieu par l’augmentation du coût d’emprunt de ces titres, ce qui a des répercussions sur la dispersion des taux du marché monétaire à court terme et pourrait rendre difficile à l’avenir la transmission de la politique monétaire conventionnelle si les taux autrefois considérés comme sans risque et contrôlables par la banque centrale ne pouvaient pas être contrôlés aussi précisément qu’auparavant. / The three chapters contained in this PhD thesis aim at contributing to a better understanding of how unconventional monetary policies and in particular asset purchases affect asset prices. As such, they also revisit the question of the impact of bond supply on bond prices, and more broadly the questions of limits to arbitrage, frictions in portfolio reallocation and the role of intermediaries. Each chapter brings new original data to quantify the effect on bond prices, on the short term rates, and on the portfolio reallocation of investors. Chapter 1 built a simple portfolio model allows to think of them in a consistent framework, and suggests that the type of asset purchased, the degree of risk aversion or how assets covary are important. The empirical exercises confirm the existence of several transmission channels to prices and assess the impact of the European APP. Chapter 2 sheds a new light on portfolio rebalancing in terms of asset classes and shows it is more limited than previously thought. Heavy frictions to reallocation, strong “preferred habitat” demand and low level of substituability between assets allow for price impact of central bank asset purchases but at the same time possibly limit the spillovers on the economy. The main channel through which APP affects price might be even be more indirect that one thought: chapter 3 suggests that it might come from reducing asset supply and increasing the cost of borrowing them. This has repercussions on the dispersion of short term money market rates and might be challenging in the future if rates once considered as risk free and controllable by the central bank cannot be controlled as precisely as before. In other terms, controlling the long end of the yield curve might in part comes at the cost of loosing part of the control on the short end.

Never before in history has the amount of international trade been higher or more efficient than it is today. The fastest growing type of trade is the speculative currency trading, searching for instant profit based only on the anticipation of the variations in currency exchange rates. When currency speculation becomes an influential part of the capital flows it becomes harmful and creates instability of currency systems. Exchange rates starts to fluctuate due to the will and anticipation of speculators rather than the economic health of the country associated with the currency. This has led to recurring currency crises all over the world and an increased interest in regulatory mechanisms. One of the most discussed mechanisms proposed to handle this harmful evolution of the foreign exchange markets is the Currency Transaction Tax (CTT). The CTT stipulates a low tax (0.1 per cent) on all currency transaction to curb the incitement of short-term speculation based on a large amount of smaller transactions. The purpose of this thesis is to examine whether an implementation of a CTT is compatible with the EU treaties. This purpose consists of two research questions; whether the CTT is in conformity with the substantive law of the EU, more precisely the free movements of capital, and if the CTT is in conformity with the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and the exclusive power of the European System of Central Banks (ESCB) over monetary policy. Since this thesis aims to identify if the CTT is in conformity with existing legislation, the traditional doctrinal method is used for identifying and analysing potential difficulties with the CTT and to interpret these provisions in the light of ECJ case law and literature. The thesis concludes that the CTT is in conformity with the EU treaties. It does however require the full cooperation of the ESCB and ECB to achieve the objectives; to create a more stable currency market. The CTT is ready to implement.

Comment la Banque Centrale Européenne (BCE) a-t-elle étendu son influence et ses compétences dans l'Union Economique et Monétaire (UEM) pendant la crise de la zone euro? Pour répondre à cette question, nous analysons le jeu politique de la BCE, basé sur un double mouvement paradoxal de défense de sa réputation originelle et d'extension de ses compétences au-delà de la sphère monétaire. Cette stratégie lui a permis de gérer les tensions et les opportunités liées à la crise de la zone euro : ses canaux d'influence (son monopole sur la liquidité, la reconnaissance de son expertise sur les marchés financiers et son autorité morale) ont plus d'impact qu'en temps normal mais, en même temps, elle la force à implémenter des politiques qui représentent un écart avec sa réputation originelle, basée sur les postulats ordo-libéraux et l'exemple de la Bundesbank. L'étude des mécanismes au cœur du processus de délégation entre les Etats de la zone euro et la BCE permet alors d'attester de la réussite de ce double mouvement et d'explorer la redéfinition de la place de la BCE au sein de l'UEM se déroulant pendant la crise. Ces éléments sont analysés à travers trois études de cas : le paramétrage des instruments de politique monétaire de la BCE pendant la crise, le processus de résolution de crise au sein de l'UEM, et la création d'un nouvel organisme de surveillance des risques macro-systémiques. La méthodologie de recherche est basée sur une approche relationnelle de la BCE qui inclut des entretiens semi-dirigés auprès d'une trentaine de hauts-dirigeants de l'UEM et une analyse des sources primaires et secondaires. / How did the European Central Bank (ECB) extended its influence and its competences within the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) during the eurozone crisis? The answer of this question lies in the analysis of the ECB's political strategy based on a paradoxical two-fold movement aiming at protecting its original reputation while extending its competences. Indeed, the financial crisis is both an opportunity and a risk for the ECB since its ressources ( its monopoly on liquidity, the acknowledgment of its expertise on financial markets and its moral authority ) have more impact than usual, but, at the same time, the Bank is forced to implement monetary policies deviating from both ordo-liberal ideas and the Bundesbank's model on which its reputation was built. The study of the mechanisms of the delegation process involving the ECB and the eurozone member states allows then to prove the success of this two-fold movement and to explore the redefinition of the ECB role within the UEM during the financial crisis. These elements are analyzed through three case studies including the implementation of monetary policies instruments, the EMU crisis-solving processes and the creation of the European Systemic Risk Board. The methodological approach focuses on the study of relations between the ECB and the other EMU actors, thanks to thirty semi-directed high officials' interviews and a analysis of primary and secondary sources.

Non-standard Monetary Policy Instruments of Central Banks Abstract The aim of this study is to analyze non-standard monetary instruments of central banks and their impact on the example of concrete use of these instruments by the Czech National Bank and the European Central Bank. The first part of this study defines the essence, the implementors, the tasks, and the objectives of the monetary policy. Its tools are also disassembled, both standard and nonstandard. From non-standard instruments, closer attention is paid to the theoretical definition of quantitative easing, negative interest rates and long-term maintenance of the exchange rate commitment. I also deal with the legal anchor, organization, purpose, history, and concept of the monetary policy of two selected central banks, namely the CNB and the ECB. The next part of the study presents the concrete form of non-standard measures used by the CNB and the ECB, it deals with the specific reasons that the central banks led to their implementation, the objectives with which they were adopted and the impact these measures had on the Czech economy and the euro area. Based on the analysis, it is possible to confirm the tested hypothesis that the Czech National Bank and the European Central Bank have succeeded in meeting the objectives set before their...

The thesis deals with relation between central bank independence and accountability. The relation is examined on example of quantitative easing implemented in the period 2005 - 2016 by the European central bank and the Federal Reserve System. From the theoretical and practical point of view the thesis proves that the relation between central bank independence and accountability are influenced by the specification of targets of monetary policy to a great extent. The thesis also proves that the specific definition of both central bank independence and accountability influenced the characteristics of quantitative resp. credit easing. Moreover, such monetary policy can potentially endanger the independence of both central banks in many ways. Thus, the implementation of quantitative easing itself and its potential consequences evidences that the contemporary conception of central bank independence and accountability is insufficient and needs to be reviewed.

The thesis evaluates the ECB's monetary policy during the past decade by using policy rules and compares the suitability to particular members of the Eurozone. It examines the central bank's reaction function regarding the output and inflation. The work is divided into two main parts. First, gives the theoretical introduction of monetary policy and evaluation of the Eurozone regarding the theory of optimal currency area. In the second part it provides the econometric models and estimates. As a conclusion the results of two different OLS models show that, we cannot precisely decide to which variable the ECB reacted, as obtained two statistically significant models but with different results. For two models is used different variables GDP gap and IPI gap. The results have also shown that the ECB's monetary policy mostly suits to biggest economies within the Eurozone.