This paper presents the Banco de España's experience in the field of monitoring the main monetary and financial magnitudes, describing the various methodological aspects that lead a central bank to use seasonally adjusted series in monetary monitoring and analysis.

Recent work on policy rules under uncertainty have highlighted the impact of output gap measurement errors on economic outcomes and their importance in the formulation of appropriate policy rules. This paper investigates the reliability of current estimates of the output gap in Canada. We begin...

This paper presents empirical evidence on the behaviour of interbank lending in Germany after a monetary policy impulse. Our VAR analysis shows that following a monetary contraction, the banking system as a whole attracts additional funds from foreign banks. Whereas small cooperative and savings...