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Inflation Persistence and Price-Setting Behaviour in the Euro Area - a Summary of the Ipn Evidence

Altissimo, Filippo; Ehrmann, Michael; Smets, Frank - 2021

This paper provides a summary of current knowledge on inflation persistence and price stickiness in the euro area … are: i) Under the current monetary policy regime, the estimated degree of inflation persistence in the euro area is … moderate; ii) Retail prices in the euro area are more sticky than in the US; iii) There is significant sectoral heterogeneity …

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The Ecb's Price Stability Framework : Past Experience, and Current and Future Challenges

Cecioni, Martina; Coenen, Günter; Motto, Roberto; le … - 2021

The ECB’s price stability mandate has been defined by the Treaty. But the Treaty has not spelled out what price stability precisely means. To make the mandate operational, the Governing Council has provided a quantitative definition in 1998 and a clarification in 2003. The landscape has...

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The Predictability of Monetary Policy

Blattner, Tobias Sebastian - 2008

Current best practice in central banking views a high level of monetary policy predictability as desirable. A clear distinction, however, has to be made between short-term and longer-term predictability. While short-term predictability can be narrowly defined as the ability of the public to...

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Clear, Consistent and Engaging : ECB Monetary Policy Communication in a Changing World

Assenmacher, Katrin; Glöckler, Gabriel; Holton, Sarah; … - 2021

This paper examines the importance of central bank communication in ensuring the effectiveness of monetary policy and in underpinning the credibility, accountability and legitimacy of independent central banks. It documents how communication has become a monetary policy tool in itself; one...

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Equal size, equal role? Interest rate interdependence between the Euro area and the United States

Ehrmann, Michael; Fratzscher, Marcel - Center for Financial Studies - 2003

United States and the euro area have changed with the advent of EMU. Using real-time data, it addresses this issue from the … interest rates in the United States and the euro area. First, the paper finds that the interdependence of money markets has … increased strongly around EMU. Although spillover effects from the United States to the euro area remain stronger than in the …

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