Die Bundesregierung beabsichtigt, der Deutschen Bundesbank eine neue Struktur zu geben. Die bislang im Leitungsgremium vertretenen Landeszentralbankpräsidenten sollen entfallen und der neue Vorstand von der Bundesregierung ernannt werden. Der Bundesrat hat diese Vorschläge zurückgewiesen....

Policy counterfactuals based on estimated structural VARs routinely suggest that bringing Alan Greenspan back in the 1970s’ United States would not have prevented the Great Inflation. We show that a standard policy counterfactual suggests that the Bundesbank–which is near-universally...

This paper uses data on German government bond futures options to examine the behaviour of market expectations around monetary policy actions of the European Central Bank (ECB). In particular, this paper focuses on the asymmetries in bond market expectations, as measured by the skewness of...

This paper outlines a new method for using qualitative information to analyze the monetary policy strategy of central banks. Quantitative assessment indicators that are extracted from a central bank's public statements via the balance statistic approach are employed to estimate a Taylor-type...