The paper argues that a well-designed methodology for dealing with uncertainty improves the quality of interest-rate decisions taken by inflation targeters. A well-planned methodology is also more easily communicated to the general public, and the subsequent greater transparency makes inflation...

The paper is the first part of a broader empirical study that considers the entry timing of accession economies into the eurozone and their exchange-rate regimes between the EU entry and prior to the eurozone entry. The presented empirical analysis is based on model simulations and on the...

The annual meeting of the European Economic Association took place in Bolzano, Italy this year. There were more than 120 seminars, many panel discussions, and three main lectures presented. The seminars covered a broad range of issues related to economic theory and to applied research....

This study is the second part of larger empirical work focused on the timing of European Monetary Union (EMU) accession and on the selection of a pre-accession exchange-rate regime. The tool of our empirical analysis used in both studies is a model simulation that benefits from a consistent...

Three alternative policy rules are contrasted in a model framework in this paper. Such simulation and their results provide a background for policy debate on the properties of alternative strategies of Czech monetary policy. The specific features of an economic transition period are reflected in...

Candidate countries for accession to the EU often view EU convergence criteria as difficult given that the period of faster growth that real convergence necessitates is usually associated with higher inflation. This paper argues that it is important to focus on the mechanism of real convergence...

Since koruna turbulence in 1997, there has been considerable dialogue concerning suitable strategy for the Czech monetary policy. This paper provides a model framework for such discussion. Three alternative monetary strategies are approximated by different policy rules. Several specific features...

Tøi dùležité výzvy: zavádìní nových strategií mìnové politiky, vypozorované odlišnosti v prùbìhu finanèních krizí mezi rozvinutými a rozvíjejícími se ekonomikami a vznik EMU ? napomohly v poslední dekádì posunout úvahy o transmisním mechanizmu mìnové politiky....