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Competitiveness and External Imbalances within the Euro Area

Dieppe, Alistair - 2013

The onset of the financial crisis in 2008 has highlighted the problems of diverging external imbalances within Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and the role of persistent losses in competitiveness. This paper starts by investigating some of the competitiveness factors which contributed to...

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Exchange Rate Pass-Through in the Euro Area and EU Countries

Ortega, Eva - 2020

Aggregate exchange rate pass-through (ERPT) to import and consumer prices in the EU is currently lower than it was in …

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The Impact of Global Value Chains on the Euro Area Economy

Dorrucci, Ettore - 2019

The studies summarised in this paper focus on the economic implications of euro area firms' participation in global value chains (GVCs). They show how, and to what extent, a large set of economic variables and interlinkages have been affected by international production sharing. The core...

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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, based on research findings that have been produced in the context of the Inflation Persistence Network. The main findings are: i) Under the current monetary policy regime, the...

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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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Low Inflation in the Euro Area : Causes and Consequences

Ciccarelli, Matteo - 2017

After 2012, inflation has been unexpectedly low across much of the developed world and economists speak of a “missing inflation” puzzle, namely inflation was expected to be higher on the back of an ongoing recovery. This paper investigates the causes and consequences of low inflation in the...

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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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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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Digitalisation : Channels, Impacts and Implications for Monetary Policy in the Euro Area

Consolo, Agostino; Cette, Gilbert; Bergeaud, Antonin; … - 2021

The digitalisation workstream report analyses the degree of digital adoption across the euro area and EU countries and … of digital adoption differs across the euro area/EU, implying heterogeneous impacts, with most EU economies currently …. The pandemic has accelerated the use of teleworking: roughly every third job in the euro area/EU is teleworkable, although …

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Understanding Low Inflation in the Euro Area from 2013 to 2019 : Cyclical and Structural Drivers

Koester, Gerrit; Lis, Eliza; Nickel, Christiane; Osbat, … - 2021

From 2013 up to the launch of the ECB’s strategy review in January 2020, inflation in the euro area was low and over-predicted. This low inflation during the years 2013-19 can be attributed to a combination of interconnected factors. Cyclical developments account for a substantial share of the...

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