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The (in)stability of money demand in the Euro area

Nautz, Dieter; Rondorf, Ulrike - 2010

The instability of standard money demand functions has undermined the role of monetary aggregates for monetary policy … instability of euro area money demand. Our results obtained from panel estimation indicate that the observed instability of … standard money demand functions could be explained by omitted variables like e.g. technological progress that are important for …

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Dauerkritik an der Europäischen Zentralbank: Falsch angewendete Theorie untergräbt Vertrauen in die Geldpolitik

Winkler, Adalbert - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 94 (2014) 7, pp. 479-486

Die Beschlüsse der Europäischen Zentralbank vom 5. Juni 2014 sind zum Teil heftig kritisiert worden. Damit setzt sich die überwiegend negative Bewertung an der Politik der Europäischen Zentralbank fort, die seit langem zu beobachten ist, aber im Widerspruch zur realen Entwicklung steht. Sie...

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Forecasting ECB monetary policy: accuracy is (still) a matter of geography

Berger, Helge; Ehrmann, Michael; Fratzscher, Marcel - 2006

Monetary policy in the euro area is conducted within a multi-country, multi-cultural, and multi-lingual context involving multiple central banking traditions. How does this heterogeneity affect the ability of economic agents to understand and to anticipate monetary policy by the ECB? Using a...

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Monetary transmission right from the start: The (dis)connection netween the money market and the ECB's main refinancing rates

Abbassi, Puriya; Nautz, Dieter - 2010

The relation between the ECB's main refinancing (MRO) rates and the money market is key for the monetary transmission … process in the euro area. This paper investigates how money market rates respond to the new information revealed by MRO … disconnection of money market rates from the policy-intended interest rate level. These findings support the fixed rate full …

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Does money matter in the ECB strategy? New evidence based on ECB communication

Berger, Helge; de Haan, Jakob; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2006

We examine the role of money in the policies of the ECB, using introductory statements of the ECB President at the …

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Central bank communication and the perception of monetary policy by financial market experts

Schmidt, Sandra; Nautz, Dieter - 2010

This paper investigates why financial market experts misperceive the interest rate policy of the European Central Bank (ECB). Assuming a Taylor-rule-type reaction function of the ECB, we use qualitative survey data on expectations about the future interest rate, inflation, and output to discover...

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Bundesverfassungsgericht und Krisenpolitik der EZB: Stellungnahmen der Ökonomen

Konrad, Kai A.; Fuest, Clemens; Uhlig, Harald; … - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 93 (2013) 7, pp. 431-454

Am 11. und 12. Juni 2013 hat das Bundesverfassungsgericht Experten zur Krisenpolitik der EZB angehört. Dabei ging es um die Frage, ob oder inwieweit die EZB durch das Outright-Monetary-Transactions-Programm (OMT) Kompetenzen beansprucht, die ihr nicht übertragen worden sind. Wir...

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Überschreitet die EZB mit ihren Staatsanleihekäufen ihr Mandat?

Matthes, Jürgen; Demary, Markus - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 93 (2013) 9, pp. 607-615

Die Staatsanleihekäufe der EZB sind zu einem Fall für das Bundesverfassungsgericht geworden. Die Autoren des IW Köln argumentieren, dass das Outright-Monetary-Transactions-Programm noch innerhalb der Grenzen des EZB-Mandats liegt, aber wegen seiner Nachteile nur temporär eingesetzt werden...

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The predictability of monetary policy

Blattner, Tobias; Catenaro, Marco; Ehrmann, Michael; … - 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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The impact of the global economic and financial crisis on central, eastern and south-eastern Europe: A stock-taking exercise

Gardó, Sándor (contributor); Martin, Reiner (contributor) - 2010

The paper first reviews the main drivers of the growth and real convergence process in central, eastern and south-eastern Europe (CESEE) since 2000 and assesses the key macro-financial strengths and vulnerabilities of the region at the beginning of the global economic and financial crisis. The...

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