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First Name: Helge
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Last Name: Berger
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Postal Address: Prof. Helge Berger, Chair of Monetary Economics, Department of Economics, Free University Berlin, Boltzmannstrasse 20, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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Working papers
- Helge Berger & Thomas Harjes, 2009.
"Does Global Liquidity Matter for Monetary Policy in the Euro Area?,"
IMF Working Papers
09/17, International Monetary Fund.
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- Helge Berger & Volker Nitsch, 2008.
"Too Many Cooks? Committees in Monetary Policy,"
KOF Working papers
08-195, KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich.
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Other versions: - Helge Berger & Emil Stavrev & Thomas Harjes, 2008.
"The ECB’s Monetary Analysis Revisited,"
IMF Working Papers
08/171, International Monetary Fund.
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- Helge Berger & Emil Stavrev, 2008.
"The Information Content of Money in Forecasting Euro Area Inflation,"
IMF Working Papers
08/166, International Monetary Fund.
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- Helge Berger & Pär Österholm, 2008.
"Does Money Matter for U.S. Inflation? Evidence from Bayesian VARs,"
IMF Working Papers
08/76, International Monetary Fund.
Other versions: - Helge Berger & Pär Österholm, 2008.
"Does Money Growth Granger-Cause Inflation in the Euro Area? Evidence from Out-of-Sample Forecasts Using Bayesian VARs,"
IMF Working Papers
08/53, International Monetary Fund.
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Other versions: - Helge Berger & Volker Nitsch, 2008.
"Gotcha! A Profile of Smuggling in International Trade,"
CESifo Working Paper Series
CESifo Working Paper No. , CESifo Group Munich.
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Other versions: - Helge Berger & Volker Nitsch & Tonny Lybek, 2007.
"Central Bank Boards around the World: Why does Membership Size Differ?,"
CESifo Working Paper Series
CESifo Working Paper No. , CESifo Group Munich.
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Other versions:
- Helge Berger & Volker Nitsch & Tonny Lybek, 2006.
"Central Bank Boards Around the World: Why Does Membership Size Differ?,"
IMF Working Papers
06/281, International Monetary Fund.
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- Berger, Helge & Nitsch, Volker & Lybek, Tonny, 2008.
"Central Bank boards around the world: why does membership size differ?,"
Discussion Papers
2008/5, Free University Berlin, School of Business & Economics.
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Published as: - Helge Berger & Anika Holler, 2007.
"What Determines Fiscal Policy? Evidence from German States,"
CESifo Working Paper Series
CESifo Working Paper No. , CESifo Group Munich.
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- Helge Berger & Michael Ehrmann & Marcel Fratzscher, 2006.
"Forecasting ECB Monetary Policy: Accuracy Is (Still) a Matter of Geography,"
IMF Working Papers
06/41, International Monetary Fund.
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Other versions:
- Helge Berger & Michael Ehrmann & Marcel Fratzscher, 2006.
"Forecasting ECB monetary policy - accuracy is (still) a matter of geography,"
Working Paper Series
578, European Central Bank.
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- Berger, Helge & Ehrmann, Michael & Fratzscher, Marcel, 2006.
"Forecasting ECB monetary policy: accuracy is (still) a matter of geography,"
Discussion Papers
2006/11, Free University Berlin, School of Business & Economics.
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- Helge Berger & Michael Ehrmann & Marcel Fratzscher, 2006.
"Geography or skills - What explains Fed watchers’ forecast accuracy of US monetary policy?,"
Working Paper Series
695, European Central Bank.
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Other versions: - Helge Berger, 2006.
"Optimal Central Bank Design: Benchmarks for the ECB,"
CESifo Working Paper Series
CESifo Working Paper No. , CESifo Group Munich.
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- Helge Berger & Michael Neugart, 2006.
"Labor Courts, Nomination Bias, and Unemployment in Germany,"
CESifo Working Paper Series
CESifo Working Paper No. , CESifo Group Munich.
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- Helge Berger & Jakob de Haan & Jan-Egbert Sturm, 2006.
"Does Money Matter in the ECB Strategy? New Evidence Based on ECB Communication,"
CESifo Working Paper Series
CESifo Working Paper No. , CESifo Group Munich.
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- Helge Berger & Jakob de Haan & Jan-Egbert Sturm, 2006.
"Does Money Matter in the ECB Strategy? New Evidence Based on ECB Communication,"
KOF Working papers
06-125, KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich.
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- Berger, Helge & Haan, Jakob de & Sturm, Jan-Egbert, 2006.
"Does money matter in the ECB strategy? New evidence based on ECB communication,"
Discussion Papers
2006/1, Free University Berlin, School of Business & Economics.
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- Helge Berger & Stephan Danninger, 2006.
"The Employment Effects of Labor and Product Markets Deregulation and their Implications for Structural Reform,"
CESifo Working Paper Series
CESifo Working Paper No. , CESifo Group Munich.
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- Helge Berger & Michael Ehrmann & Marcel Fratzscher, 2006.
"Monetary policy in the media,"
Working Paper Series
679, European Central Bank.
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- Helge Berger & Volker Nitsch, 2005.
"Zooming Out: The Trade Effect of the Euro in Historical Perspective,"
CESifo Working Paper Series
CESifo Working Paper No. , CESifo Group Munich.
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Other versions:
Published as: - Helge Berger & Jakob de Haan & Jan-Egbert Sturm, 2005.
"Which Variables Explain Decisions on IMF Credit? An Extreme Bounds Analysis ,"
TWI Research Paper Series
13, Thurgauer Wirtschaftsinstitut, Universität Konstanz.
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Published as: - Helge Berger & Stephan Danninger, 2005.
"Labor and Product Market Deregulation: Partial, Sequential, or Simultaneous Reform?,"
IMF Working Papers
05/227, International Monetary Fund.
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- Helge Berger & Carsten Hefeker, 2004.
"One Country, One Vote? Labor Market Structure and Voting Rights in the ECB,"
CESifo Working Paper Series
CESifo Working Paper No. , CESifo Group Munich.
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- Helge Berger & George Kopits & István P. Székely, 2004.
"Fiscal Indulgence in Central Europe: Loss of the External Anchor,"
IMF Working Papers
04/62, International Monetary Fund.
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Published as: - Helge Berger & Till Mueller, 2004.
"How Should Large and Small Countries Be Represented in a Currency Union?,"
CESifo Working Paper Series
CESifo Working Paper No. , CESifo Group Munich.
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Published as: - Helge Berger & Jakob de Haan & Robert Inklaar, 2003.
"Restructuring the ECB,"
CESifo Working Paper Series
CESifo Working Paper No. , CESifo Group Munich.
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- Jakob de Haan & Helge Berger & David-Jan Jansen, 2003.
"The End of the Stability and Growth Pact?,"
CESifo Working Paper Series
CESifo Working Paper No. , CESifo Group Munich.
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Other versions: - Jan-Egbert Sturm & Helge Berger & Jakob de Haan, 2002.
"IMF Credit: How Important Are Political Factors? A Robustness Analysis,"
CESifo Working Paper Series
CESifo Working Paper No. , CESifo Group Munich.
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- Helge Berger, 2002.
"The ECB and Euro-Area Enlargement,"
IMF Working Papers
02/175, International Monetary Fund.
- Helge Berger & Jan-Egbert Sturm & Jakob de Haan, 2001.
"Capital Controls and Exchange Rate Regimes: An Empirical Investigation,"
CESifo Working Paper Series
CESifo Working Paper No. , CESifo Group Munich.
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- Jacob De Haan & Helge Berger & Erik Van Fraassen, 2001.
"How to Reduce Inflation: An Independent Central Bank or A Currency Board? The Experience of the Baltic Countries,"
LICOS Discussion Papers
9601, LICOS - Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, K.U.Leuven.
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Published as: - Helge Berger & Frank Westermann, 2001.
"Factor Price Equalization? The Cointegration Approach Revisited,"
CESifo Working Paper Series
CESifo Working Paper No. , CESifo Group Munich.
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Published as: - Helge Berger & Henrik Jensen & Guttorm Schjelderup, 2001.
"To Peg or Not To Peg? A Simple Model of Exchange Rate Regime Choice In Small Economies,"
CESifo Working Paper Series
CESifo Working Paper No. , CESifo Group Munich.
[Downloadable!]
Published as: - Berger, Helge & Haan, Jakob de & Eijffinger, Sylvester C.W, 2000.
"Central Bank Independence: An Update of Theory and Evidence,"
CESifo Working Paper Series
CESifo Working Paper No. , CESifo Group Munich.
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Published as: - Helge Berger & Carsten Hefeker & Ronnie Schoeb, 2000.
"Optimal Central Bank Conservatism and Monopoly Trade Unions,"
UWO Department of Economics Working Papers
200014, University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics.
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Other versions: - Berger, Helge & Sturm, Jan-Egbert & Haan, Jakob de, 2000.
"An Empirical Investigation into Exchange Rate Regime Choice and Exchange Rate Volatility,"
CESifo Working Paper Series
CESifo Working Paper No. , CESifo Group Munich.
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- Berger, Helge & Woitek, Ulrich, 1999.
"Does Conservatism Matter? A Time Series Approach to Central Banking,"
CESifo Working Paper Series
CESifo Working Paper No. , CESifo Group Munich.
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Other versions: - Helge Berger & Jakob de Haan, 1997.
"A State within the State? An Event Study on the Bundesbank,"
CESifo Working Paper Series
CESifo Working Paper No. , CESifo Group Munich.
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Articles
- Berger, Helge & Österholm, Pär, 2009.
"Does money still matter for U.S. output?,"
Economics Letters,
Elsevier, vol. 102(3), pages 143-146, March.
[Downloadable!] (restricted)
Other versions: - Helge Berger & Carsten Hefeker, 2008.
"Does financial integration make banks more vulnerable? Regulation, foreign owned banks, and the lender-of-last resort,"
International Economics and Economic Policy,
Springer, vol. 4(4), pages 371-393, February.
[Downloadable!] (restricted)
- Berger, Helge & Nitsch, Volker, 2008.
"Zooming out: The trade effect of the euro in historical perspective,"
Journal of International Money and Finance,
Elsevier, vol. 27(8), pages 1244-1260, December.
[Downloadable!] (restricted)
Other versions: - Berger, Helge & Nitsch, Volker & Lybek, Tonny, 2008.
"Central bank boards around the world: Why does membership size differ?,"
European Journal of Political Economy,
Elsevier, vol. 24(4), pages 817-832, December.
[Downloadable!] (restricted)
Other versions:
- Helge Berger & Volker Nitsch & Tonny Lybek, 2006.
"Central Bank Boards Around the World: Why Does Membership Size Differ?,"
IMF Working Papers
06/281, International Monetary Fund.
[Downloadable!]
- Helge Berger & Volker Nitsch & Tonny Lybek, 2007.
"Central Bank Boards around the World: Why does Membership Size Differ?,"
CESifo Working Paper Series
CESifo Working Paper No. , CESifo Group Munich.
[Downloadable!]
- Berger, Helge & Nitsch, Volker & Lybek, Tonny, 2008.
"Central Bank boards around the world: why does membership size differ?,"
Discussion Papers
2008/5, Free University Berlin, School of Business & Economics.
[Downloadable!]
- Helge Berger & George Kopits & István P. Székely, 2007.
"Fiscal Indulgence In Central Europe: Loss Of The External Anchor?,"
Scottish Journal of Political Economy,
Scottish Economic Society, vol. 54(1), pages 116-135, 02.
[Downloadable!] (restricted)
Other versions: - Helge Berger & Till Mueller, 2007.
"How should large and small countries be represented in a currency union?,"
Public Choice,
Springer, vol. 132(3), pages 471-484, September.
[Downloadable!] (restricted)
Other versions: - Jan-Egbert Sturm & Helge Berger & Jakob de Haan, 2005.
"Which Variables Explain Decisions On Imf Credit? An Extreme Bounds Analysis,"
Economics and Politics,
Blackwell Publishing, vol. 17, pages 177-213, 07.
[Downloadable!] (restricted)
Other versions: - Helge Berger & Ulrich Woitek, 2005.
"Does Conservatism Matter? A Time-Series Approach to Central Bank Behaviour,"
Economic Journal,
Royal Economic Society, vol. 115(505), pages 745-766, 07.
[Downloadable!] (restricted)
- Jakob de Haan & Helge Berger & David-Jan Jansen, 2004.
"Why has the Stability and Growth Pact Failed?,"
International Finance,
Blackwell Publishing, vol. 7(2), pages 235-260, 07.
[Downloadable!] (restricted)
- Helge Berger & Jakob Haan, 2002.
"Are small countries too powerful within the ECB?,"
Atlantic Economic Journal,
International Atlantic Economic Society, vol. 30(3), pages 263-282, September.
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- Berger, Helge & Woitek, Ulrich, 2001.
"The German political business cycle: money demand rather than monetary policy,"
European Journal of Political Economy,
Elsevier, vol. 17(3), pages 609-631, September.
[Downloadable!] (restricted)
- Berger, Helge & Spoerer, Mark, 2001.
"Economic Crises And The European Revolutions Of 1848,"
The Journal of Economic History,
Cambridge University Press, vol. 61(02), pages 293-326, June.
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- Berger, Helge & de Haan, Jakob & Eijffinger, Sylvester C W, 2001.
" Central Bank Independence: An Update of Theory and Evidence,"
Journal of Economic Surveys,
Blackwell Publishing, vol. 15(1), pages 3-40, February.
[Downloadable!] (restricted)
Other versions:
- Berger, Helge & Haan, Jakob de & Eijffinger, Sylvester C.W, 2000.
"Central Bank Independence: An Update of Theory and Evidence,"
CESifo Working Paper Series
CESifo Working Paper No. , CESifo Group Munich.
[Downloadable!]
- Berger, Helge & de Haan, Jakob & Eijffinger, Sylvester C W, 2000.
"Central Bank Independence: An Update of Theory and Evidence,"
CEPR Discussion Papers
2353, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
[Downloadable!] (restricted)
- de Haan, Jakob & Berger, Helge & van Fraassen, Erik, 2001.
"How to reduce inflation: an independent central bank or a currency board? The experience of the Baltic countries,"
Emerging Markets Review,
Elsevier, vol. 2(3), pages 218-243, September.
[Downloadable!] (restricted)
Other versions: - Helge Berger & Frank Westermann, 2001.
"Factor price equalization? The cointegration approach revisited,"
Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv),
Springer, vol. 137(3), pages 525-536, September.
[Downloadable!] (restricted)
Other versions: - Berger, Helge & Jensen, Henrik & Schjelderup, Guttorm, 2001.
"To peg or not to peg?: A simple model of exchange rate regime choice in small economies,"
Economics Letters,
Elsevier, vol. 73(2), pages 161-167, November.
[Downloadable!] (restricted)
Other versions: - Helge Berger & Marcel Thum, 2000.
"News Management in Monetary Policy: When Central Banks Should Talk to the Government,"
German Economic Review,
Blackwell Publishing, vol. 1(4), pages 465-493, November.
[Downloadable!] (restricted)
- Berger, Helge & de Haan, Jakob, 1999.
"A State within the State? An Event Study on the Bundesbank (1948-1973),"
Scottish Journal of Political Economy,
Scottish Economic Society, vol. 46(1), pages 17-39, February.
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- Berger, Helge, 1998.
"Tamin Bayoumi, Financial Integration and Real Activity, Studies in Macroeconomics (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997. xii + 157 pp. ?25),"
Financial History Review,
Cambridge University Press, vol. 5(02), pages 235-236, October.
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- Berger, Helge & Woitek, Ulrich, 1997.
" Searching for Political Business Cycles in Germany,"
Public Choice,
Springer, vol. 91(2), pages 179-97, April.
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- Berger, Helge & Woitek, Ulrich, 1997.
"How opportunistic are partisan German central bankers: Evidence on the Vaubel hypothesis,"
European Journal of Political Economy,
Elsevier, vol. 13(4), pages 807-821, December.
[Downloadable!] (restricted)
- Helge Berger, 1997.
"The Bundesbank's path to independence: Evidence from the 1950s,"
Public Choice,
Springer, vol. 93(3), pages 427-453, December.
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Published as: - RePEc:pal:imfstp:v:54:y:2007:i:3:p:591-619 is not listed on IDEAS
Books
- Holger C. Wolf & Atish R. Ghosh & Helge Berger & Anne-Marie Gulde, 2008.
"Currency Boards in Retrospect and Prospect,"
MIT Press Books,
The MIT Press,
edition 1, volume 1, number 0262232650.
- Berger, Helge, 1997.
"Konjunkturpolitik im Wirtschaftswunder. Handlungsspielräume und Verhaltensmuster von Bundesbank und Regierung in den 1950er Jahren,"
Beiträge zur Finanzwissenschaft,
Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen,
edition 1, volume 2, number urn:isbn:9783161467950, September.
NEP Fields
24 papers by this author were announced in NEP, and specifically in the following field reports (number of papers):
- NEP-CBA: Central Banking (16) 2004-12-12 2005-10-22 2006-01-24 2006-02-19 2006-04-08 2006-04-08 2006-07-02 2006-11-04 2006-12-01 2007-05-04 2008-01-05 2008-03-25 2008-04-29 2008-08-06 2008-08-06 2009-03-28 Author is listed
- NEP-EEC: European Economics (13) 2004-12-12 2004-12-27 2005-10-22 2006-01-24 2006-02-19 2006-04-08 2006-04-08 2006-07-02 2006-11-04 2008-03-25 2008-08-06 2008-08-06 2009-03-28 Author is listed
- NEP-FIN: Finance (1) 2006-01-24
- NEP-FMK: Financial Markets (5) 2006-01-24 2006-02-19 2006-04-08 2006-04-08 2006-07-02 Author is listed
- NEP-FOR: Forecasting (6) 2006-01-24 2006-07-02 2006-12-01 2008-01-05 2008-03-25 2008-08-06 Author is listed
- NEP-GEO: Economic Geography (1) 2006-07-02
- NEP-HIS: Business, Economic & Financial History (1) 2005-04-30
- NEP-IFN: International Finance (5) 2003-11-03 2004-05-02 2004-05-02 2004-05-09 2006-02-19 Author is listed
- NEP-INT: International Trade (1) 2005-04-30
- NEP-LAW: Law & Economics (1) 2006-08-05
- NEP-MAC: Macroeconomics (19) 2003-11-03 2004-12-12 2005-10-22 2006-01-24 2006-02-19 2006-04-08 2006-04-08 2006-06-03 2006-07-02 2006-08-05 2006-11-04 2006-12-01 2007-05-04 2008-01-05 2008-03-25 2008-04-29 2008-08-06 2008-08-06 2009-03-28 Author is listed
- NEP-MFD: Microfinance (1) 2003-11-03
- NEP-MON: Monetary Economics (17) 2003-11-03 2004-05-02 2004-05-09 2006-01-24 2006-02-19 2006-04-08 2006-04-08 2006-07-02 2006-11-04 2006-12-01 2007-05-04 2008-01-05 2008-03-25 2008-04-29 2008-08-06 2008-08-06 2009-03-28 Author is listed
- NEP-PBE: Public Economics (1) 2005-10-22
- NEP-POL: Positive Political Economics (2) 2004-05-09 2004-12-12
- NEP-REG: Regulation (2) 2006-03-05 2006-06-03
- NEP-RMG: Risk Management (1) 2003-11-03
- NEP-TRA: Transition Economics (2) 2003-11-03 2005-10-22
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