The European Central Bank (ECB) strives to maintain inflation at a 2% target rate, yet the Euro area's diverse economies pose challenges to achieving this goal with a single nominal interest rate. Effective monetary policy transmission hinges on synchronizing the Natural Rate of Interest (NRI)...

Zum Werk "Euro ist gleich Euro." - Dieser Grundsatz beinhaltet im Kern den Auftrag der Europäischen Zentralbank, die Stabilität des Geldwerts zu gewährleisten, auf ihn sollte jeder Geldeigentümer vertrauen dürfen. Aber gilt dieser auch in Zeiten von Negativzinsen? Lohnt sich in diesen...

We propose a new exchange rate model using IRD time series as the input, and we fit the new model with empirical data for calibration. We assume that exchange rate modeling cannot be based on the response to a single shock but must instead be based on the response to a series of shocks, as...

A small macroeconomic model is constructed to study the transmission of the monetary policy conducted by the Deutsche Bundesbank (DBB) since the middle of the 1970s. For this purpose quarterly, seasonally unadjusted data for the period from 1975 to 1998 are used, that is, the period until the...

This paper investigates the credit channel in Germany and the United Kingdom. The financial systems of these two countries show substantial structural differences, which leads one to expect that their real sectors respond differently to changes in monetary policy. To the extent that this is the...