Seit Ausbruch der Finanzkrise haben Zentralbanken weltweit versucht, dem wirtschaftlichen Abschwung mit zum Teil unkonventionellen Maßnahmen entgegenzuwirken. Dieser Beitrag fasst einerseits die Maßnahmen der EZB zusammen und zeigt dabei auf, dass die EZB weniger unkonventionell als andere...

Since the outbreak of the financial market crisis central banks all across the world have tried to counteract the economic downturn with at least partly unconventional measures. This contribution reviews the measures taken in the eurozone and points out that the ECB acted less unconventionally...

Seit Ausbruch der Finanzkrise haben Zentralbanken weltweit versucht, dem wirtschaftlichen Abschwung mit zum Teil unkonventionellen Maßnahmen entgegenzuwirken. Dieser Beitrag fasst einerseits die Maßnahmen der EZB zusammen und zeigt dabei auf, dass die EZB weniger unkonventionell als andere...

This paper provides a first preliminary assessment of the recent two 3-year long-term refinancing operations (3Y LTROs) conducted by the ECB by putting them into a broader context. The perspective taken is that prevailing in the first half of the year 2012, directly after the path-breaking ECB...

Successfully managing a course back to normality ("exit") will depend crucially on the central banks' ability to communicate effectively a credible strategy for an orderly exit from such kind of policies. In this context, clear, deliberate, coordinated messages that are anchored in the central...

Successfully managing a course back to normality ("exit") will depend crucially on the central banks' ability to communicate effectively a credible strategy for an orderly exit from such kind of policies. In this context, clear, deliberate, coordinated messages that are anchored in the central...

Monetary policies of the ECB and US Fed can be characterised by “Taylor rules”, that is bothcentral banks seem to be setting rates by taking into account the “output gap” and inflation.We also set up and tested Taylor rules which incorporate money growth and the euro-dollarexchange rate,...

The belief that the ECB follows the US Federal Reserve in setting its policy is so entrenched with market participants and commentators that the search for empirical support would seem to be a trivial task. However, this is not the case. We find that the ECB is indeed often influenced by the...