Several investigations came to the conclusion that, considering in retrospect, most Mergers &Acquisitions were not successful. Differences in the corporate cultures are often quoted asbeing responsible for the failures. So, the question arises how such failures can be preventedin future....

Monetary policies of the ECB and US Fed can be characterised by “Taylor rules”, that is bothcentral banks seem to be setting rates by taking into account the “output gap” and inflation.We also set up and tested Taylor rules which incorporate money growth and the euro-dollarexchange rate,...

The aim of this note is to provide an overview of various measures of “excess liquidity”,which can be defined as the deviation of the actual stock of money from an estimated equilibriumlevel. Given their dynamic nature, the excess liquidity measures under review are - in thelight of long and...

One major outcome of the review of the ECB’s “two pillar monetary policy strategy”, whichwas published on 8 May 2003, has been the de facto downgrading of the hitherto prominentrole assigned to the stock of money. According to the authors’ judgement, however, there is astrong theoretical...

This paper tackles the issue of the incompleteness of information available to thecentral bank when taking its monetary policy decisions. It is focused on euro areadata and based on the simplistic assumption of the central bank following a simplemonetary policy rule à-la-Taylor. Along the lines...

After a short review on the history of human capital measurement we describe anddiscuss different approaches that are in use to assess the intangible assetts of anorganisation based on knowledge and behaviour. While deductive indicators helpto rise the questions on the value of intangible...