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• The Bundesbank's communications strategy and policy conflicts with the federal government

  - 2005-10-01

  1. Introduction Even the most autonomous central banks cannot, at times, escape conflict with government. Conflicts arise either because the government disagrees with the current stance of monetary policy or with the central bank's outlook for future economic activity or because the monetary authority might be critical of government...

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• EMU at 1

  - 2000-01-01

  On January 1, 1999, the European Union EU launched what will surely be one of the most ambitious political and economic undertakings of the twenty-first century: economic and monetary union EMU, incorporating eleven of the fifteen current members of the EU. A new currency, the euro, replaced the national currencies...

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• German monetary targeting: a precursor to inflation targeting. (Part III)(Inflation targeting: lessons from four countries.)

  - 1997-08-01

  The German system of monetary targeting incorporates many elements from more traditional inflation targeting schemes, and the german system uses numerical inflation goals as the centerpiece of its economic policy. The flexibility of Germany's monetary targeting methodology provides the economy with the ability to shift smoothly between short-term and long-term...

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• German monetary targeting: a retrospective view

  - 1995-10-01

  Linda S. Kole and Ellen E. Meade, of the Board's Division of International Finance, prepared this article. Matthew Field provided research assistance.Nineteen ninety-five marks the twentieth year of German monetary targeting and the eighth year that the Deutsche Bundesbank has set an objective for the monetary aggregate M3.(1) Among the...

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• Breezy at the helm. (Deutsche Bundesbank President Hans Tietmeyer)

  - 1994-10-01

  Deutsche Bundesbank Pres. Hans Tietmeyer has drawn much criticism because of his fiscal policies. In his defense, Tietmeyer has stated that the growth of money supply should be considered in view of the turbulence brought on the German economy by the 1989 reunification. Tietmeyer believes that it is part of...

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• German foreign policy after unification: the end of cheque book diplomacy?

  - 1994-01-01

  In this article, three interrelated arguments are made: first, the economic costs of unification have diminished German economic capacity and consequently its diplomatic flexibility; second, unification has reopened the debate within Germany over the desirability of European Monetary Union EMU and has led to the redefinition of the minimum conditions...

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