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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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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...

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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, multicultural, and multi-lingual context …

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Monetary policy in the media

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

Media coverage of monetary policy actions is a central channel of a central bank’s communication with the wider public, and thus an important factor for its credibility and policy effectiveness. This paper analyses the coverage which ECB monetary policy decisions receive in the print media,...

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Convergence and anchoring of yield curves in the euro area

Ehrmann, Michael; Fratzscher, Marcel; Gürkaynak, Refet S. - 2007

We study the convergence of European bond markets and the anchoring of inflation expectations in euro area countries …) has led to substantial convergence in euro area sovereign bond markets in terms of interest rate levels, unconditional … substantially across euro area countries and even been eliminated over time, thus underlining not only market integration but also …

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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 - 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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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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