Preface and acknowledgements This thesis is addressed to anyone who wishes to have a greater in-depth understanding of what type of macroeconomic information is influencing the Governing Council of European Central Bank in setting the policy interest rate. This is especially useful for all who wish to make accurate forecasts of the future direction of interest rates in the euro area. Also helpful information is provided relating to the effects of the financial turmoil on ECB’s interest rate reaction function. Utmost patience and counselling of Dr. David J.C. Smant enabled me to accomplish this research. I am ever grateful to him for his comprehensive and excellent supervision. Also I would like to thank a special person in my life that has ...
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This thesis is an empirical study of communication by euro area central bankers. Its remainder is st...
This thesis is an empirical study of communication by euro area central bankers. Its remainder is st...
On principle, independent central banks can use either interest rates or monetary aggregates as oper...
This paper compares the actual Euro-area money-market interest rate with a hypothetical rate derived...
This paper examines the implications of recent research on monetary policy rules for practical monet...
First, this paper presents basic definitions of the consumption function and gives a summary of main...
This Paper discusses interest rate setting by the ECB between 1999 and 2004. I develop from the Mont...
This thesis contributes to the literature through an empirical analysis of the first decade of singl...
The purpose is to investigate how the European Central Bank (ECB) sets interest rates in the context...
In the present paper fundamental changes in monetary policy strategy, especially in leading industri...
The main goal in this paper is to detect the mechanisms that should rationally stimulate the decisio...
We investigate whether the members of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank take into a...
The aim of the paper is to present the role of the interest rate in the main economic theories. In ...
This thesis is an empirical study of communication by euro area central bankers. Its remainder is st...
This paper aims at discovering the national influences inside the Governing Council of the ECB for s...
This thesis is an empirical study of communication by euro area central bankers. Its remainder is st...
This thesis is an empirical study of communication by euro area central bankers. Its remainder is st...
On principle, independent central banks can use either interest rates or monetary aggregates as oper...
This paper compares the actual Euro-area money-market interest rate with a hypothetical rate derived...
This paper examines the implications of recent research on monetary policy rules for practical monet...
First, this paper presents basic definitions of the consumption function and gives a summary of main...