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In March 2013 around 130 participants from academia, banking and finance, governments and central banking gathered at the premises of the OeNB in Vienna for a conference jointly organized by the European Money and Finance Forum SUERF, the OeNB and the Austrian Society for Bank Research to...
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first find that there has been a strong push towards the floating cum inflation-targeting corner and to regional trade …
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On 11 March 2015, SUERF jointly organised a conference with the Oesterreichische Nationalbank and the Austrian Society for Bank Research (Bankwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft - BWG). The present SUERF Study 2015/2 includes a selection of papers based on the authors' contributions to the Vienna...
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monetary policy regimes towards inflation targeting, expected monetary policy has become more important as a determinant of …
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the inflation target and to communicate information about the output target and supply shocks with perceived ambiguity. In …
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exchange rate regime yields a lower loss compared to an inflation targeting policy, even if this policy ranking would be …-maker to adopt inflation targeting over a strict exchange rate targeting regime. Full credibility is not a precondition, but … exposure to foreign and financial shocks and high steady state inflation make joining the EMU relatively more attractive for a …
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I propose a unitary framework to interpret the links between differences in financial structures and the monetary policy regimes on the one hand, and the correlation of business cycles on the other. Using a two-country micro-founded model with financial frictions I predict that a greater...
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This paper analyzes the institutional framework of central banks in ten Central and East European countries using the ECB as benchmark. It looks at the legislated objectives of these central banks, assesses the degree of political and functional independence and the status of their democratic...
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In this paper we analyze equilibrium determinacy in a sticky price model in which the pass-through from policy rates to retail interest rates is sluggish and potentially incomplete. In addition, we empirically characterize and compare the interest rate pass-through process in the euro area and...
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Ten years of inflation targeting worldwide provide valuable lessons. Inflation targeters (ITers) have been very … successful in meeting their inflation targets (ITs). Industrial output sacrifice during inflation stabilization and industrial … output volatility has frequently been lowered after IT adoption. ITers have consistently reduced inflation forecast errors …
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