This thesis contributes to the literature through an empirical analysis of the first decade of single European monetary policy within a real-time approach and offers new specifications of the policy reaction function of Central Banks based on a novel econometric modeling technique. The results...

This paper studies the nonparametric identification and estimation of voters' preferences when voters are ideological. We establish that voter preference distributions and other parameters of interest can be identified from aggregate electoral data. We also show that these objects can be...