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Breuss, Fritz - 2002

Overall, the ECB managed monetary policy quite satisfactory in the first phase of EMU. Nevertheless, this paper asks whether monetary policy could not have been improved. In the last three years, Euroland was confronted with the first external shock. Oil prices increased considerably, leading to...

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

Ehrmann, Michael; Fratzscher, Marcel - 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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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 …

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Economic Policy Coordination in the EMU. How Much Scope will There be Within the Framework of the Stability and Growth Pact?

Breuss, Fritz; Weber, Andrea - 1999

coordinate their fiscal policy with the monetary policy of the ECB the welfare gains are very large for the whole Euro zone …

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Globalization, EU Enlargement and Income Distribution

Breuss, Fritz - 2007

Advanced industrial countries have been exhibiting a steady decline of the labour income shares in the last two decades. The study explains this phenomenon by resorting to the old Stolper-Samuelson theorem. The conclusions concerning the impact of free trade on the income distribution are...

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Inflation persistence and price-setting behaviour in the euro area: a summary of the Inflation Persistence Network evidence

Altissimo, Filippo; Ehrmann, Michael; Smets, Frank - 2006

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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Communication and decision-making by central bank committees: different strategies, same effectiveness?

Ehrmann, Michael; Fratzscher, Marcel - 2005

The paper assesses the communication strategies of the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and the European Central Bank and their effectiveness. We find that the effectiveness of communication is not independent from the decisionmaking process in the committee. The paper shows that the Federal...

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How should central banks communicate?

Ehrmann, Michael; Fratzscher, Marcel - 2005

The paper shows that central bank communication is a key determinant of the market’s ability to anticipate monetary policy decisions and the future path of interest rates. Comparing communication policies by the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and the ECB since 1999, we find that...

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The timing of central bank communication

Ehrmann, Michael; Fratzscher, Marcel - 2005

This paper explores whether there are systematic patterns as to when members of the decision-making committees of the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and the European Central Bank communicate with the public, and under what circumstances such communication has the ability to move financial...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604611

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, multicultural, and multi-lingual context …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604624