Die Arbeit schlägt für das Eurosystem als Krisenrecht ein neues Verfahren zum besseren und sicheren Erreichen des Preisstabilitätsziels vor. Dazu knüpft es an hohen Teuerungsraten an. Als ultima ratio sieht es die Bank für Internationalen Zahlungsausgleich (BIZ) als Verwalterin vor, um eine...

This paper reports the results of a survey among private sector economists about credibility and transparency of central banks. In line with the survey of Alan Blinder among central bankers, we asked participants in Ifo s World Economic Survey to answer questions on the importance and...

The empirical literature on central banking has found measures of central bank independence/conservatism to be negatively correlated with inflation and inflation variance across countries. But the cross-country approach has been criticised for its focus on policy outcomes instead of policies,...

Using a randomized controlled trial, we study whether showing German respondents a graph plotting the European Central Bank's inflation target alongside inflation in the euro area from 1999 to 2017 affects respondents' trust in the ECB. The treatment has, on average, no significant effect on the...