This note argues that the European Central Bank should adjust its strategy in order to consider broader measures of inflation in its policy deliberations and communications. In particular, it points out that a broad measure of domestic goods and services price inflation such as the GDP deflator...

In this paper, we examine the cost of insurance against model unvertainty for the Euro are considering four alternative reference models, all of which are used for policy-analysis at the ECB. We find that maximal insurance across this model range in terms of a Minimax policy comes at moderate...

The global financial crisis has lead to a renewed interest in discretionary fiscal stimulus. Advocates of discretionary measures emphasize that government spending can stimulate additional private spending — the Keynesian multiplier effect. Thus, we investigate whether the spending package...

Die europäischen Fiskalregeln - wichtiger Eckpfeiler der Wirtschafts- und Währungsunion - stehen in der Kritik und sollen reformiert werden. Einerseits wird argumentiert, dass sie zu restriktiv und angesichts eines steigenden öffentlichen Investitionsbedarfes nicht mehr zeitgemäß seien....