of them have been tracking either the euro or the US dollar in recent years. Eight countries, all of them current or … aspiring EU members, track the euro. Of the five countries keying on the US dollar in various degrees, all but one belong to … the Commonwealth of Independent States. The paper shows that the extent to which each country's currency tracks the euro …

effects. The announcement of an ECB euro liquidity line decreases the premium paid by foreign agents to borrow euros in FX … equity prices increase by around 1.75% in euro area countries highly exposed via banking linkages to countries whose …

Despite closing output gaps and tightening labor markets, inflation has remained low inthe euro area. Based on an … augmented Phillips Curve framework, we find that thisphenomenon-sometimes attributed to low global inflation-has been primarily … causedby a remarkable persistence of inflation, keeping it low despite the reduction in slack. Thisfeature is shown to be …

Do euro area inflation expectations remain well-anchored? This paper finds that the protractedperiod of low (and below …-target) inflation in the euro area since 2013 has weakened theiranchoring. Testing their sensitivity to inflation and macroeconomic news … robustness to our conclusions. Results point to a significantimpact of inflation news over recent years that had not been …

We study whether clarity of central bank inflation reports affects return volatility in financial markets. We measure … Flesch-Kincaid grade level, a standard readability measure. We find some evidence, mainly for the euro area, of a negative …