Andreas Dombret: The state as a banker? Speech by Dr Andreas Dombret, Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank, at the Institute of Monetary and Financial Stability, Frankfurt am Main, 28 January 2014. * 1.
*  *  Introduction  Ladies and gentlemen It is a great privilege for me to speak at the Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability, and I wish to thank Professors Siekmann and Wieland for their invitation. An invitation from an institute of this name certainly cannot fail to impress a central banker.