We investigate whether ideology drives the sentiments of parliamentarians when they speak to the central bank they hold accountable. To this end, we collect textual data on the quarterly hearings of the ECB President before the European Parliament from 1999 to 2019. We apply sentiment analysis...

Monetary policy in the euro area is conducted within a multi-country, multicultural, and multi-lingual context involving multiple central banking traditions. How does this heterogeneity affect the ability of economic agents to understand and to anticipate monetary policy by the ECB? Using a...

Der kleine Band, dessen Autoren Attac verbunden sind, beginnt mit einem kritischen Rückblick auf die politisch-wirtschaftliche Entwicklung Europas, untersucht die wirtschafts- und sozialpolitischen Verhältnisse und die Folgen der EU-Erweiterung für Osteuropa. In den Beziehungen zu den USA...