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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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This paper assesses the prospects for the new Polish monetary policy strategy of inflation targeting. Regarding the general requirements for implementing an inflation targeting strategy it appears that Poland has made sufficient progress in reducing fiscal dominance and hardening budget...
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In this paper we analyze the money demand functions of the four largest EMU countries and of the four-country (EMU-4 …) aggregate. We identify reasonable and stable money demand relationships for Germany, France and Spain as well as the EMU-4 … aggregate. For the case of Italy, results are less clear. From the estimated money demand functions, we derive both EMU-4 and …
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This paper presents a multivariate analysis of a money demand system in Europe. The system comprises real broad money … identified: a money demand function and a long-run Fisher equation. Inflation does not play a role in the specification of the … European money demand function. Stability of money demand is generally seen as a precondition for monetary targeting. No …
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We examine the indicator property of the monetary indicator for inflation. Using a P*-model, Svensson shows theoretically in a recent paper that the relationship between these two variables is rather tenuous. The present study employs empirical evidence on the relations in his model to quantify...
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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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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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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 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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The sovereign debt crisis in the euro area is a symptom of policy failures and deficiencies in – among other things – fiscal policy coordination. The first nine years of the euro were not used effectively in order to improve public finances, while the Stability and Growth Pact was watered...
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