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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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Can central banks do the unpleasant job that governments should do?

Dimakopoulou, Vasiliki; Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; … - 2023

We investigate what happens when the fiscal authorities do not react to rising public debt so that the unpleasant task of fiscal sustainability falls upon the Central Bank (CB). In particular, we explore whether the CB's bond purchases in the secondary market can restore stability and...

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Political pressures and monetary mystique

Geraats, Petra M. (contributor) - 2007

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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 … October 2009 and September 2012, the most intense phase of the eurozone crisis. Dollar liquidity clearly reduced stress in …

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Structural reforms and the enlargement of monetary union

Hefeker, Carsten - 2000

The paper addresses the question what effects the enlargement of a monetary union will have on necessary structural refoms in the (low distortion) member countries and the (high distortion) candidate country. While monetary union lowers reforms in the candidate country, members of the monetary...

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National representation in multinational institutions : the case of the European Central Bank

Badinger, Harald; Nitsch, Volker - 2011

Multinational institutions face an important trade-off when hiring personnel. On the one hand, hiring decisions are based, as in most organizations, on a candidate's professional qualifications. On the other hand, multinational institutions often aim for broad national representation. Reviewing...

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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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The monetary policy of the ECB : a Robin Hood approach?

Drometer, Marcus; Siemsen, Thomas; Watzka, Sebastian - 2013

We derive four sets of counterfactual national interest rate paths for the 17 Euro Area countries for the time period 1999 to 2012. They approximate desirable national interest rates countries would have liked to implement if they could still conduct independent monetary policy. We find that...

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Smells like fiscal policy? : assessing the potential effectiveness of the ECB's OMT program

Hristov, Nikolay; Hülsewig, Oliver; Siemsen, Thomas; … - 2014

This paper explores the potential effectiveness of the ECBś Outright Monetary Transaction (OMT) program in safeguarding an appropriate monetary policy transmission. Since the program aims at manipulating bank lending rates by conducting sovereign bond purchases on secondary markets, a stable...

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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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