between the nominal interest rate and inflation in the postwar period in the five major industrial countries, utilizing … rate and the inflation rate as between the two groups of countries are reflected in the time series properties of the … inflation rates, which are, in turn, partly attributable to the different extent to which monetary authorities accommodated …

is constructed for the German monetary sector based on M3, GNP, an inflation rate, a long-term interest rate and a short …-term rate which represents the policy variable of the DBB. Moreover, import price inflation is included as an exogenous variable …