This paper employs a multi-country delegation monetary policy model and argues that a decision making mechanism based on the median voter theorem where intensity of preferences cannot play a role does not capture important aspects of policy-setting in the European Monetary Union. Replacing the...

This paper employs a multi-country delegation model of a single monetary policy and argues that a decision making mechanism based on the median voter theorem is too restrictive for capturing important aspects of monetary policy in the European Monetary Union, particularly because intensity of...

This paper investigates the real-time effects of foreign exchange intervention using official intraday intervention data provided by the Danish central bank. Denmark is currently pursuing an active intervention policy under the provisions of the Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM II) and intervenes on...