Sei es durch Bankenkrisen oder Inflation, Schuldenbremse oder Zinsdebatten: Das Thema Geldpolitik ist in der Tagespolitik angekommen. Längst hat sich die Einsicht verbreitet, dass Geld kein neutrales Tauschmittel ist, sondern auch ein Instrument politischer Herrschaft. Gleichwohl fehlt noch...

The design of monetary policy depends upon the targeting strategy adopted by the central bank. This strategy describes a set of policy preferences, which are actually the structural parameters to analyse monetary policy making. Accordingly, we develop a novel calibration method to identify...

I propose a discrete choice method for estimating monetary policy reaction functions based on research by Hu and Phillips (2004). This method distinguishes between determining the underlying desired rate which drives policy rate changes and actually implementing interest rate changes. The method...