Peter Kugler

This book describes the remarkable path which led to the Swiss Franc becoming the strong international currency that it is today. Ernst Baltensperger and Peter Kugler use Swiss monetary history to provide valuable insights into a number of issues concerning the organization and development of monetary institutions and currency that shaped the structure of financial markets and affected the economic course of a country in important ways. They investigate a number of topics, including the functioning of a world without a central bank, the role of competition and monopoly in money and banking, the functioning of monetary unions, monetary policy of small open economies under fixed and flexible exchange rates, the stability of money demand and supply under different monetary regimes, and the monetary and macroeconomic effects of Swiss Banking and Finance. Swiss Monetary History since the Early 19th Century illustrates the value of monetary history for understanding financial markets and macroeconomics today.

Sie kennen das bestimmt: Sie wachen eines Morgens in einem wildfremden Bett auf, k nnen sich an absolut nichts vom Vortag erinnern, m ssen sich mit gekr nkten K hlschr nken und neurotischen Navigationsger ten auseinander setzen und erfahren nebenbei, dass sie von einer interdimensional t tigen Organisation als Tester f r deren verschiedene Weltmodelle angeheuert wurden. Und als ob das nicht schon gen gen w rde m ssen sie sich noch mit schlecht gelauntem Gem se herumschlagen. Das Buch erz hlt die fiktive Geschichte von Max, der sich mit bevormundenden K hlschr nken, spottenden Navigationsger ten, divenhaften Fahrst hlen, einen digitalen Assistenten in Frauenkleidern, einer nicht ganz menschlichen Hornbrille, seinen Stimmen im Kopf, M nnern in Tarnanz gen, Realit tsverformern, der Firma und Erika in einer m glichen Zukunft auseinander setzen muss. Und in lustig.

This volume provides an interdisciplinary approach to this central research topic. Firstly, the hippocampus is presented generally as a model for experiments on neurotransmission in the central nervous system; secondly, special features of synaptic organisation and synaptic transmission in this area of the brain are introduced. Of particular note is the wide-ranging methodological approach which includes light and electron microscopy, immunocytochemistry, Golgi/EM techniques, intracellular differentiation and intracellular colorings, histochemistry of transmitter enzymes and receptoraudiography. The reader thereby gains insight into the broad scope of methodological possibilities for the examination of such a complex problem as neurotransmission in the hippocampus.