Nous cherchons dans le sillage de travaux tels que Agénor (2004) ou Duttagupta et al (2004) à identifier les principales conditions que doit remplir au préalable une économie avant l’adoption d’un régime de flottement pur du taux de change. Ces dernières englobent le développement du...

While there is ample evidence how central bank communication and interest rate decisions are perceived by financial markets, insights regarding the response of the public is lacking. Media is known to be an important transmitter of news to the public. Based on articles in the Financial Times...

We derive four sets of counterfactual national interest rate paths for the 17 Euro Area countries for the time period 1999 to 2012. They approximate desirable national interest rates countries would have liked to implement if they could still conduct independent monetary policy. We find that...

Nach der EZB-Zinssenkung Anfang November 2013 hat sich Bundesbankpräsident Jens Weidmann mehrfach zu Wort gemeldet, um die Sicht der Bundesbank zum derzeitigen Kurs der Geldpolitik zu erläutern. In seinen Stellungnahmen rechtfertigt er grundsätzlich den derzeit expansiven Kurs der...

A number of contributions to research on monetary policy have suggested that policy should be asymmetric near the lower bound on nominal interest rates. As inflation and economic activity decline, policy should ease more aggressively than it would in the absence of the lower bound. As activity...

Die Europäische Zentralbank ist eine Institution, die nicht direkt demokratisch legitimiert ist. Dies wird insbesondere kritisiert, seit sie weitreichende Entscheidungen an den Grenzen ihres Mandats trifft. Würde die EZB die Öffentlichkeit häufiger und genauer informieren, könnte sie ihre...

We examine the role of money in the policies of the ECB, using introductory statements of the ECB President at the monthly press conferences during 1999-2004. Over time, the relative amount of words devoted to the monetary analysis has decreased. Our analysis of indicators of the monetary policy...

We examine the role of money in the policies of the ECB, using introductory statements of the ECB President at the monthly press conferences during 1999-2004. Over time, the relative amount of words devoted to the monetary analysis has decreased. Our analysis of indicators of the monetary policy...

Im September 2012 hatte EZB-Präsident Draghi angekündigt, dass die Europäische Zentralbank – wenn es notwendig ist – unbegrenzt Staatsanleihen von Krisenstaaten aufkauft, um die Refinanzierung ihrer Staatsschulden zu ermöglichen und ihre Zinsbelastung zu senken. Nach Auffassung des...

This paper outlines important lessons for monetary policy. In particular, the role of inflation targeting, which was much acclaimed prior to the financial crisis and since then has not lost much of its endorsement, is critically reviewed. Ignoring the relation between monetary policy and asset...