We show that short and long nominal interest rates are independent monetary policy instruments. The pegging of both helps solving the problem of multiplicity that arises when only short rates are used as the instrument of policy. A peg of the nominal returns on assets of different maturities is...

This paper shows that remunerating required reserves can increase the flexibility of monetary policy. The remuneration at the current repo rate implies constant net marginal interest costs of holding required reserves. This allows the central bank also to change the rate also within a reserve...

The complexity of the monetary phenomenon as well as the effects that it induces in the social and economic life of the countries around the world have represented and still represent the subject of much controversy and dispute. The current forms of the monetary circulation organization in...

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...

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...

This paper summarises the work done by Eurosystem staff in the context of the Strategy Review Seminar on Monetary Policy Instruments. More specifically, it focuses on the efficacy, efficiency and potential side effects of the key monetary policy instruments employed by the European Central Bank...

Although measuring monetary policy is a contentious issue in the literature, much less evidence on this issue is available for emerging economies. This paper aims to investigate the role of interest rate and money supply in measuring monetary policy in twelve emerging economies that target...