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The Portuguese Disinflation Process: Analysis of Some Costs and Benefits

Duarte, António Portugal - EconWPA - 2005

This study aims to analyse the Portuguese economic policy of disinflation through a nominal stabilization policy of the Portuguese escudo. We study the pegging of the Portuguese escudo (PTE) to the Deutsch mark (DM) knowing the reputation of the Bundesbank for its anti- inflationary record and...

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Is the Euro Working? The Euro and European Labour Markets

Silvia, Stephen - EconWPA - 2005

Now that four years have passed since the introduction of the euro as a commercial currency, it has become possible to … precisely that. In brief, the euro zone still falls short as an optimal currency area in most respects. In particular, an … adjustment in the new currency area. Instead, a “rigidity trap” has developed in the euro area—which consists of relatively tight …

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Estimating a European Demand for Money

Hayo, Bernd - EconWPA - 1998

European Monetary Union will come into existence in 1999. This raises questions related to the monetary policy targets that will be adopted by the European Central Bank (ECB). For both likely candidates, targeting a money aggregate or an inflation target, the existence of a stable money demand...

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The Fed’s Consistent Monetary Policy: A Long Term Perspective

Los, Cornelis A. - EconWPA - 2004

This paper describes the Federal Reserve's analytical framework under Volcker and Greenspan, as it was constructed in the early 1980s, during a period of high inflation. It traces the modeling and policy implications of this framework. It discusses the Fed's actual track record and the state of...

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Latin American Central Bank Reform: Progress and Challenges

Carstens, Agustin; Luis I. Jacome H. - EconWPA - 2005

This study takes stock of the institutional reform of monetary policy in Latin America since the early 1990s. It argues that strengthening the legal independence of central banks, together with macroeconomic policies, was instrumental in reducing inflation from three-digit annual rates in the...

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A Preliminary Evaluation of Monetary Policy Rules for Russia

Souza, Lucio Vinhas de - EconWPA - 2004

The paper reviews the recent conduct of monetary policy and the central bank’s rule-based behavior in Russia. Using different policy rules, we test whether the central bank in Russia reacts to changes in inflation, output gap and the exchange rate in a consistent and predictable manner. Our...

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Inside the Impossible Triangle: Monetary Policy Autonomy in a Credible Target Zone

Jansen, W. Jos - EconWPA - 2003

This paper examines the trade-off between exchange rate stability and monetary autonomy for a target zone. Using the guilder-mark target zone in the pre-EMU period as a case study, we empirically estimate how much policy discretion the Dutch central bank still enjoyed and how much had been ceded...

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A calibrated structural model of the Czech economy

Hlédik, Tibor - EconWPA - 2004

The paper presents a structural model framework for a small open economy. The model, based on optimising households and firms, has been calibrated on Czech macroeconomic data in order to develop an analytic framework suitable for analysing key policy questions related to the Czech Republic’s...

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Monetary Policy in the Euro Area - Lessons from the First Years

Clausen, Volker; Hayo, Bernd - EconWPA - 2002

This paper investigates in a consistent semi-structural empirical framework three current issues of monetary policy in the euro area. First, regarding policy transmission we offer a three-stage procedure to combine the efficient estimation of economic structure prior to EMU with current ECB...

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Asymmetric Monetary Policy Effects in EMU

Hayo, Bernd; Clausen, Volker - EconWPA - 2002

This paper uses a semi-structural dynamic modelling approach to investigate asymmetric monetary transmission in Europe. A system of equations containing reaction functions for monetary policy, output and inflation equations is simultaneously estimated for France, Germany, and Italy. Extensive...

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