Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/98650 
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Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
ROME Discussion Paper Series No. 14-03
Publisher: 
Research On Money in the Economy (ROME), s.l.
Abstract: 
This paper briefly assesses the effectiveness of the different non-standard monetary policy tools in the Euro Area. Its main focus is on the Outright Monetary Transactions (OMT) Programme which is praised by some as the ECB's 'magic wand'. Moreover, it discloses further possible unintended consequences of these measures in the current context of weak economic activity and subdued growth going forward. For this purpose, it investigates specific risks for price stability and asset price developments in the first main part of the paper. It is not a too remote issue that the Fed does have a 'tiger by the tail', as Hayek (2009) expressed it, i.e. that the bank will finally have to accept either a recession or inflation and that there is no choice in between. Furthermore, it checks on whether the OMT programme really does not impose costs onto the taxpayer. Finally, it comes up with some policy implications from differences in money and credit growth in different individual countries of the Euro Area. The second main part of the paper assesses which other tools the ECB could use in order to stimulate the economy in the Euro Area. It does so by delivering details on whether and how the effectiveness of the ECB's policies can be improved through more transparency and 'forward guidance'.
Subjects: 
central bank transparency
euro area
forward guidance
non-standard monetary policies
Outright Monetary Transactions
Quantitative Easing
segmentation of credit markets
JEL: 
E52
E58
F32
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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