The monetary policy decision, as any other decision, is the product of a procedure assembling a lot of primary information, but also what type of other ingredients contribute finally to a certain monetary policy decision.

Monetary policy should be guided by macroeconomic models with limited nominal rigidity – ‘New Classical’ or even for some issues just plain Classical (i.e. with no nominal rigidity at all) models are perfectly adequate for understanding various aspects of the economy that have previously...

In this article I have tried to make a short presentation of the Euro Zone and it’s monetary policy. At the present moment the Euro Zone has 16 countries that have adopted the Euro as a national currency and also 4 small countries that have monetary agreements with their neighbours. The...

The loss of the sovereign interest rate and exchange rate instruments is the main potential cost of joining a monetary union since it becomes more difficult to adjust swiftly to shocks. In the case of demand shocks that affect all countries more or less equally (symmetric shocks), the loss of...