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Is the View from the Eurotower Purely European? - National Divergence and ECB Interest Rate Policy

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Huefner, Felix P (ZEW Mannheim)
Friedrich Heinemann

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The official view on ECB monetary policy claims that decisions are based on euro zone data and that diverging regional developments are disregarded. To test empirically whether regional developments have an impact on ECB decisions we develop a generalised monetary policy reaction function which allows for an influence of regional divergence. Reaction function estimations and a probit model of interest rate decisions for the first years of the euro area offer some first weak support for an impact of regional divergence. The results clarify that ignoring a potential national perspective may lead to biased estimates for the ECB reaction function.

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Paper provided by Royal Economic Society in its series Royal Economic Society Annual Conference 2003 with number 110.

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Keywords: ECB monetary policy Taylor rule

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