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After almost four decades of price stability, inflation has recently approached historical highs. Initially driven by global energy and food price increases, the magnitude of the surge in inflation caught central banks and markets by surprise. Price pressures are now increasingly broadening to...
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Die EZB hat während der Finanzkrise insgesamt die richtigen Entscheidungen getroffen. Das moderne und flexible geldpolitische Instrumentarium musste im Verlauf der Krise nur wenig angepasst werden, um die Banken ausreichend mit Liquidität zu versorgen. Die Zinspolitik stand bis zum Sommer 2008...
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This note is a brief reply to , who has been critical of the conceptual foundations and methodology in a discussion of the impact of different interest rate policy rules on inflation in . The reply concludes that the case for a 'zero real policy rate of interest' (ZRPR), rather than a 'zero...
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It seems clear that the ECB will raise interest rates in July 2022 and end its asset purchase program. This should send a strong and important signal to markets and economic players that the ECB continues to take its mandate for price stability seriously. However, it cannot be said with absolute...
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Inflation rates in the euro area have reached historic highs due in large part to high energy prices. As the euro area is a net importer of energy, one refers to this inflation as imported inflation. There is a danger that these high inflation rates will become entrenched in inflation...
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Whereas strong demand is a key factor driving high inflation in the US, inflation in the Euro Area is mainly due to adverse external supply shocks (in Europe, energy prices are much higher due to the war in Ukraine). Standard monetary policy response to such shocks is to accommodate first-round...
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Monetary policy currently has only limited room for manoeuvre to fight inflation. Structural supply problems, war and past omissions are having an impact. Inflation is hitting those hardest who cannot pass on the price increase. There is no evidence of a wage-price spiral in Germany at present....
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In der Geldpolitik der Europäischen Zentralbank scheinen die Tauben durch Falken abgelöst worden zu sein. Dabei ist … eine zu restriktive Geldpolitik eine Gefahr für die europäische Realwirtschaft und eine durch zu hohe Leitzinsen … begünstigte Rezession möglichst zu vermeiden. Eine stark restriktiv ausgerichtete Geldpolitik wirkt zum jetzigen Zeitpunkt …
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