Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part 1 Macroeconometric evidence on the transmission mechanism in the euro area; Part 2 Firms' investment and monetary policy: evidence from micro economic data; Part 3 The role of...

An important stylized fact to emerge from the VAR estimates is that exogenous monetary policy shocks (also labelled unsystematic monetary policy) have a delayed, persistent, hump shaped effect on in.ation. I argue that this empirical pattern is fragile. In particular it disappears when one...

This paper first shows that the forecast error incurred when assuming that future inflation will be equal to the inflation target announced by the central bank is typically at least as small and often smaller than forecast errors of model-based and published inflation forecasts. It then shows...