Several European countries adopted inflation targeting as a monetary policy strategy during the 1990s. We evaluate the impact of the establishment of this policy framework on the dynamics of inflation for three countries: United Kingdom, Spain and Finland. We find that inflation targeting was...

This paper empirically investigates the impact of U.S. monetary policy surprises on the volatility of stock market returns for euro area countries. More specifically, to extract the unanticipated component of the U.S. monetary policy, we follow the Kuttner's methodology and we use the federal...