The financial and economic crisis in the Euro area has revealed a number of important flaws in the economic policy … euro, are not sustainable; and this is more serious in a period of crisis in particular. On the other hand, it has become … clear that the Euro area suffers from a serious lack of institutions and policy concepts, which will not allow coping with …

attribute these mixed estimation results to a raft of empirical issues from which many existing studies suffer, including bias … the operation of a Taylor-type rule, albeit with considerable inertia. We argue that estimation across rolling windows may … estimation provides substantial evidence that the inflation and output preferences of the Fed have varied through time …

The topic of this paper is the estimation uncertainty of the Stock-Watsonand Gonzalo-Granger permanent …