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Money Stock Control and Inflation Targeting in Germany

A State Space Modelling Approach to the Bundesbank’s Operating Procedures and Intermediate Strategy

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  1. Claus Brand

    1. European Central Bank, Frankfurt a.M., Germany

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Part of the book series: Contributions to Economics (CE)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  2. Introduction

    • Claus Brand
    Pages 1-5

  3. Measuring monetary policy: Operating procedures and intermediate strategies

    • Claus Brand
    Pages 7-43

  4. Theoretical Framework

    • Claus Brand
    Pages 45-52

  5. Analysis of time series using linear state space models

    • Claus Brand
    Pages 53-99

  6. Empirical implementation and results

    • Claus Brand
    Pages 101-139

  7. Conclusions

    • Claus Brand
    Pages 141-146

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 147-173
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1.1 Intermediate strategies for monetary policy The launch of a single European currency in January 1999 has been sparking a heated debate over what strategy the European Central Bank's policy should be based on so as to distribute and maintain monetary stability in Europe. In order to pass the Bundesbank's reputation as a tough inflation fighter on to the European Central Bank there have been strong efforts to make the ECB a close copy of the Bundesbank. It might be surmised that there will be a lot of similarities in its intermediate strategies. Among other indicators, the ECB's policy will be based on the growth rate of a broad monetary aggregate consistent with its definition of price stability. As a key instrument in the new central bank's instruments, REPO operations will constitute the main refinancing source of private banks and, in addition, minimum reserve requirements have been introduced to facilitate the authority's command over the banking sector's liquidity by means of stabilising the demand for central bank money. After having introduced monetary targeting in the 1970s, in the 1980s, the Bank of England and the Fed soon abandoned it again, because of distor­ tions from financial innovations and currency substitution. But the Bundes­ bank strongly defended its intermediate strategy of monetary targeting and advocated its implementation in the European System of Central Banks.

Authors and Affiliations

  • European Central Bank, Frankfurt a.M., Germany

    Claus Brand

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Money Stock Control and Inflation Targeting in Germany

  • Book Subtitle: A State Space Modelling Approach to the Bundesbank’s Operating Procedures and Intermediate Strategy

  • Authors: Claus Brand

  • Series Title: Contributions to Economics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57601-0

  • Publisher: Physica Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Physica-Verlag Heidelberg 2001

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-7908-1393-7Published: 27 March 2001

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-57601-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1431-1933

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-7178

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 174

  • Topics: Finance, general, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics

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