they are quite right. The ECB has indeed become more dependent in political and financial terms. The ECB has decided to … overall money supply unaffected. This is to counter accusations that the ECB is monetizing government debt. This note … reshuffles only the liability side of the ECB's balance sheet. It is not well-suited to either diminish the bloated ECB balance …

decision rule of the ECB, we rank different rules according to their ability to aggregate the national counterfactual paths to … economically worse than the Euro Area average perform best. -- monetary policy ; ECB ; Bundesbank ; decision rule ; counterfactual …

The ECB decision to cut its benchmark interest rate in November 2013 has been severely criticised in Germany. Against … this background, the President of the Bundesbank justified the ECB's monetary policy stance in recent speeches. At the same …

information search patterns, of German citizens on trust in the ECB. We rely on a unique representative public opinion survey of …, about the ECB foster citizens' trust. Specific knowledge about the ECB is more influential than general monetary policy …, especially newspaper reading, has a significantly negative influence on trust. We conclude that the only viable way for the ECB …

implemented by the ECB since summer 2013 mirrors the rate recommendations of a simple policy rule or deviates from it in a way …

countries. An alternative solution to ensure the European perspective of decision-making in the ECB Council is to match economic …

incorporates key elements that have already been adopted in the European Union. The case of ELA provision by the ECB and the …

We analyse German citizens' knowledge about monetary policy and the European Central Bank (ECB), as well as the public …'s use of mass communication media to obtain information about the ECB. We employ a unique representative public opinion … survey of German households conducted in 2011. We find that a person's desire to be informed about the ECB, together with the …