Dewachter, Hans; Lyrio, Marco; Maes, Konstantijn - Centrum voor Economische Studiën, Faculteit Economie … - 2001
This paper uses reprojection to develop a benchmark to assess ECB monetary policy since January 1999, the start of EMU … German monetary policy is then reprojected onto the EMU period (1999:01-2001:08). We find that the German real interest rate … in place during the EMU period is significantly lower than it would have been in case the Bundesbank were still in charge …