Das europäische Verfahren zur Vermeidung und Korrektur makroökonomischer Ungleichgewichte (kurz: Ungleichgewichteverfahren) zielt darauf ab, makroökonomische Risiken frühzeitig zu erkennen und den Aufbau von gefährlichen makroökonomischen Ungleichgewichten zu verhindern bzw. bestehende...

Between 1995 and 2005, the German economy has experienced a phase of weak economic growth. We analyze whether this weak growth performance can be attributed to the stance of monetary conditions during that period. We show that the real effective exchange rate did have almost no dampening effects...

The economic recovery in the euro area has accelerated in the course of 2004. During the first two quarters, real GDP rose at an annual rate of slightly over 2 percent, after about 1½ percent in the second half of 2003. For the first time since 2001, overall capacity utilization increased....

The upswing in Europe, North America and Japan since mid-1975 has been unsteady. It has been sufficiently modest to allow a — however slight — decline of inflation rates. Since economic policy refrained from massive reflation, the shortrun outlook remains for a moderate recovery with no...