Für die Teilnahme an der Währungsunion sollten nur Staaten zugelassen werden, die alle Konvergenzkriterien erfüllen. Bislang tun dies nur Deutschland, Irland und Luxemburg. In allen anderen Ländern bedarf es einschneidender Maßnahmen — insbesondere bei der Verringerung der öffentlichen...

This paper studies the role of the yen/dollar exchange rate in the Bank of Japan?s monetary policy reaction function. In contrast to prior estimations of reaction functions based on the Taylor-rule, we allow for regime shifts by estimating rolling coefficients from January 1974 to March 1999....

I analyze how the introduction of financial frictions can affect the trade-off between output stabilization and inflation stability and whether, in the presence of financial frictions, the optimal outcome can be realized or approached more closely if monetary policy is allowed to react to...

This paper sets up a simple model for interventions and interest rate setting assuming that the policy maker cares about deviations in inflation from a target level. Under a quadratic cost of interest rate adjustments and interventions the policy maker should use a combination of interest rate...