IMFS Working Lunch mit Prof. Helmut Siekmann am 27. April

In der Reihe IMFS Working Lunch hält IMFS Professor Helmut Siekmann am 27. April 2015 einen Vortrag mit dem Titel "Legal limits for the outright purchase of sovereign debt by the ESCB".

Working Lunch mit IMFS Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Helmut Siekmann
Stiftungsprofessur für Geld-, Währungs- und Notenbankrecht

"Legal limits for the outright purchase of sovereign debt by the ESCB"

Outright purchases of sovereign debt by the European System of Central Bank (ESCB) which is composed by the European Central Bank (ECB) and the national central banks of the member states has been a topic of debate among legal scholars since the ECB started to purchase covered bonds with underlying sovereign debt and the Securities Markets Program (SMP) aiming to support some member states in difficulties. The controversies increased when the ECB publicized its decision to install Outright Monetary Transactions (OMT), which were later judged as not conforming with European Union law by the German Federal Constitutional Court. For this reason it referred the case to the European Court of Justice where it is still pending. New legal questions arose when the ESCB started its debt purchasing program which is known under the name Quantitative Easing (QE). This has some similarities with OMT but also some distinctive differences which pose new legal questions.

12:00-13:00 Uhr

Raum "Commerzbank", House of Finance

Bitte melden Sie sich für diese Veranstaltung bis zum 26. April unter lectures[at]imfs-frankfurt[dot]de an.