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We introduce an approach for the empirical study of the quantity theory of money (QTM) that is novel both with respect to the specific steps taken as well as the general methodology employed. Empirical studies of the QTM have focused directly on the relationship between the rate of change of the...
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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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A small macroeconomic model is constructed to study the transmission of the monetary policy conducted by the Deutsche Bundesbank (DBB) since the middle of the 1970s. For this purpose quarterly, seasonally unadjusted data for the period from 1975 to 1998 are used, that is, the period until the...
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The empirical literature on central banking has found measures of central bank independence/conservatism to be negatively correlated with inflation and inflation variance across countries. But the cross-country approach has been criticised for its focus on policy outcomes instead of policies,...
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estate, as well as the costs of public goods to develop alternative inflation measures in Germany since the introduction of …
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order of Germany. It is argued that in post-war Europe the German social market economy as designed by Eucken (1952) and … Müller-Armack (1966) has been a core element of growth, welfare, social cohesion and political stability in Germany and …) growth and welfare in Germany and Europe. As the outcome is crumbling social cohesion and growing political instability, a …
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Using a randomized controlled trial, we study whether showing German respondents a graph plotting the European Central Bank's inflation target alongside inflation in the euro area from 1999 to 2017 affects respondents' trust in the ECB. The treatment has, on average, no significant effect on the...
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Using firm-level survey data from Germany, this paper asks how do supply constraints propagate monetary policy shocks …
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whether there is convergence in monetary transmission. The countries included are: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the …
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extent this contention holds and to what extent Germany pragmatically responded to different crisis phenomena. A proper …
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