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The role of political institutions for the effectiveness of central bank independence
Hielscher, Kai; Markwardt, Gunther - 2011
independence and inflation. Making use of data on the evolution of central bank independence over time and controlling for possible … country's inflation performance. Examining a cross-section of up to 69 countries, we are able to show that granting a central … bank more autonomy does not necessarily lead to better inflation performance. To lower inflation by increasing independence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009012047
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Stable money and central bank independence : implementing monetary institutions in postwar Germany
Hefeker, Carsten - 2019
Germany prides itself in having one of the most successful central banks and currencies with respect to independence and stability. I show that not only were both imposed on the country after 1945 but that there was also initial resistance to both among German experts and officials. This is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119851
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Connected lending of last resort
Mitchener, Kris; Monnet, Eric - 2023
Because of secrecy, little is known about the political economy of central bank lending. Utilizing a novel, hand-collected historical daily dataset on loans to commercial banks, we analyze how personal connections matter for lending of last resort, highlighting the importance of governance for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013494187
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010246072
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Can the Central Bank alleviate fiscal burdens?
Reis, Ricardo - 2017
constraint. It discusses five channels: (i) how inflation can (and cannot) lower the real burden of the public debt, (ii) how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704682
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The failure of ECB monetary policy from a Mises-Hayek perspective
Schnabl, Gunther - 2017
The paper analyses the common European monetary policy based on a Mises-Hayek overinvestment framework, which is combined with the theory of optimum currency areas. It shows how since the turn of the millennium a too expansionary monetary policy contributed to unsustainable overinvestment booms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011619626
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Trends in monetary policy transparency
Geraats, Petra M. - 2009
communication practices and is the first to systematically analyze transparency trends throughout the world and across monetary … policy frameworks. It shows that increases in information disclosure have not been confined to inflation targeting but extend … inflation and economic development have undergone larger increases in transparency. Moreover, it shows that greater transparency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003818025
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009724004
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Central banking and financial stability in the long run
Cao, Jin; Chollete, Lorán - 2013
central banks cannot attain both low inflation and financial stability. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009753000
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Fighting inflation more effectively without transferring central banks' profits to banks
De Grauwe, Paul; Ji, Yuemei - 2023
current operating procedures and make monetary policies more effective in fighting inflation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014422581