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Credibility and transparency of Central Banks : new results based on Ifo s world economicy survey

Hamella, Sandra; Haan, Jakob de - 2004

This paper reports the results of a survey among private sector economists about credibility and transparency of central banks. In line with the survey of Alan Blinder among central bankers, we asked participants in Ifo s World Economic Survey to answer questions on the importance and...

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Restructuring the ECB

Berger, Helge; Haan, Jakob de; Inklaar, Robert - 2003

Soon, euro area membership could more than double, with the vast majority of accession countries being quite different in economic terms compared with current members. Under the current decision-making system, this can lead to high decisionmaking costs and there is a risk that monetary policy...

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The Eurozone as an inflation target zone

Della Posta, Pompeo; Tamborini, Roberto - 2022

aiming for two per cent inflation over the medium term", with "symmetric commitment" to this target. "Symmetry means that the … therefore analyse this policy strategy through a model of inflation target zone, with a central value and symmetric upper and … lower bounds on inflation, within which the central bank may decide not to intervene, provided inflation is expected to …

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Fiscal aspects of central bank independence

Sims, Christopher A. - 2001

Most macroeconomic models treat the central bank and the trea-sury as a unified entity. The balance sheet of the central bank is therefore implicitly treated as an accounting fiction. While this is often realistic, the central bank balance sheet has implications for central bank independence....

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Preaching to the agnostic : inflation reporting can increase trust in the Central Bank but only among people with weak priors

Hayo, Bernd; Méon, Pierre-Guillaume - 2023

Bank's inflation target alongside inflation in the euro area from 1999 to 2017 affects respondents' trust in the ECB. The … the inflation rate, and not information about the inflation target itself, appears to be the main driving force. …

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Shadow rates as a measure of the monetary policy stance : some international evidence

Anderl, Christina; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2022

, Australia and New Zealand) and others that have only targeted inflation at times (the US, Japan, the Euro Area and Switzerland … official policy rates and those implied by three types of Taylor rules in both inflation targeting countries (the UK, Canada …

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One country, one vote? : labor market structure and voting rights in the ECB

Berger, Helge; Hefeker, Carsten - 2004

The pending enlargement of the European Monetary Union (EMU) has brought to the fore the discussion of the voting right distribution in the European Central Bank (ECB) council. We show that, in a model where labor unions internalize the inflationary consequences of wage setting, deviating from a...

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Central bank policies and financial markets : lessons from the Euro crisis

Mody, Ashoka; Nedeljkovic, Milan - 2018 - This version: November 20, 2018

The European Central Bank (ECB) took many measures to combat the eurozone's rolling financial crisis. For providing desperately scarce dollars to eurozone banks, the ECB relied on the U.S. Federal Reserve. Using a novel econometric framework, we identify financial markets' response to the...

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How should large and small countries be represented in a currency union?

Berger, Helge (contributor); Müller, Till (contributor) - 2004

The likely extension of the euro area has triggered a debate on the organization of the ECB, in particular on the apparent mismatch between relative economic size and voting rights in the Council. We present a simple model of optimal representation in a federal central bank addressing this...

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The impact of macro news and central bank communication on emerging European forex markets

Égert, Balázs; Kočenda, Evžen - 2013

We employ two-stage empirical strategy to analyze the impact of macroeconomic news and central bank communication on the exchange rates of three Central and Eastern European (CEE) currencies against the euro. First we estimate the nominal equilibrium exchange rate based on a monetary model....

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