Monetary policy in the euro area: Was it too tight in the 1990s?

Willi Semmler, Alfred Greiner and Wenlang Zhang

Atlantic Economic Journal, 2002, vol. 30, issue 3, 283-297

Abstract: This paper studies the monetary policy in the euro area. An important question concerning the euro area is whether the monetary policy has been too tight in the 1990s and in turn, caused the high unemployment rates, in contrast to the economic prosperity and low unemployment rate of the U.S. Therefore, the authors explore what would have happened to the euro economy if the Central Banks had followed either the fixed or time-varying monetary policy rule of the U.S. The paper does find that the European central banks and then later the ECB overreacted to past inflation pressures. Copyright International Atlantic Economic Society 2002

Date: 2002
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