We explore the effects of chief executive officers' (CEOs') personal dominance - an idiosyncratic character trait strongly associated with a desire for influence and control - on two fundamental organizational design decisions: the CEO's span of control (1) and her delegation of responsibilities...

Im Rahmen moderner geldpolitischer Strategien spielt das Konzept des Produktionspotenzials eine wichtige Rolle. Es repräsentiert die nachhaltigen Produktionsmöglichkeiten einer Volkswirtschaft, die ohne Gefahren für die Preisstabilität realisiert werden können. Für eine empirische...

We study the cross‐country dimension of financial cycles for six euro area countries using wavelet analysis. Estimated wavelet cohesions show that cycles in equity prices and interest rates display stronger synchronization across countries than real output cycles, whereas credit variables and...

We update the wavelet-based analysis of the relationship between money growth and inflation in the euro area in Mandler and Scharnagl (2014). The relationship between headline M3 growth and inflation at low frequencies has weakened over the 1990s. However, we find evidence of stable comovement...

We estimate the effects of shocks to interest rate expectations on the four largest euro area economies. We identify these shocks in a Bayesian vector autoregressive (BVAR) model augmented by survey expectations. We separate the expectations shocks from standard monetary policy shocks by...

Monetäres Reinvermögen versus Geldmenge M3 – eine Entgegnung In ihrem Artikel "Monetäres Reinvermögen versus Geldmenge M3" legen Neumann und Weigand der deutschen Bundesbank nahe, zukünftig bei zinspolitischen Entscheidungen stärker die konjunkturellen Wirkungen ihrer Politik zu...

Cyclically induced changes in taxes and government expenditures which tend to stabilise aggregate output are called automatic stabilisers. Using a small macro model, this paper reviews alternative methods of measuring the smoothing power of automatic stabilisers and discusses their relationship...

The paper analyses the performance of simple interest rate rules which feature a response to noisy observations of inflation, output and money growth. The analysis is based on a small empirical model of the hybrid New Keynesian type which has been estimated on euro area data by Stracca (2007)....