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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788404003321

Autore

Ehrmann Michael

Titolo

Forecasting ECB Monetary Policy : : Accuracy is (Still) a Matter of Geography / / Michael Ehrmann, Marcel Fratzscher, Helge Berger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2006

ISBN

1-4623-3064-9

1-4527-0172-5

1-283-51757-4

9786613830029

1-4519-0837-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (42 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

FratzscherMarcel

BergerHelge

Soggetti

Monetary policy - European Union countries

Banks and Banking

Inflation

Industries: General

Labor

Monetary Policy

Central Banks and Their Policies

Information and Market Efficiency

Event Studies

Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects

Price Level

Deflation

Banks

Depository Institutions

Micro Finance Institutions

Mortgages

Macroeconomics: Production

Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search

Banking

Macroeconomics

Labour

income economics

Central bank policy rate

Central bank autonomy

Industrial production



Financial services

Central banks

Prices

Production

Unemployment

Interest rates

Banks and banking

Industries

European Union countries Economic policy

United Kingdom

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"February 2006".

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. DATA AND SOME STYLIZED FACTS""; ""III. THE ROLE OF GEOGRAPHY, MACRO CONDITIONS, AND HISTORY""; ""IV. DECOMPOSITION OF THE FORECASTING ERRORS""; ""V. CONCLUSIONS""; ""References""

Sommario/riassunto

Monetary policy in the euro area is conducted within a multicountry, multicultural, and multilingual context involving multiple central banking traditions. How does this heterogeneity affect the ability of economic agents to understand and to anticipate monetary policy by the European Central Bank (ECB)? Using a database of surveys of professional ECB policy forecasters in 24 countries, we find remarkable differences in forecast accuracy, and show that they are partly related to geography and clustering around informational hubs, as well as to country-specific economic conditions and traditions of independent central banking in the past. In large part, this heterogeneity can be traced to differences in forecasting models. While some systematic differences between analysts have been transitional and are indicative of learning, others are more persistent.