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Überschreitet die EZB mit ihren Staatsanleihekäufen ihr Mandat?

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  • Jürgen Matthes
  • Markus Demary

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The ECB’s government bond purchases have become an issue for the German constitutional court. The authors see the OMT programme as falling within the bounds of its mandate but call for the ECB’s crisis policies to be strictly temporary. They argue that the OMT programme was necessary to safeguard fi nancial stability and that it does not endanger price stability in the short term. Moreover, they present evidence for the breakdown of the monetary policy transmission mechanism in the crisis countries and argue that the conditions for forbidden monetary government fi nancing are not met — provided the ECB sticks to certain conditions. Particularly, the ECB’s government bond purchases must maintain a clear distinction between the primary market and a functioning secondary market. Copyright ZBW and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013

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  • Jürgen Matthes & Markus Demary, 2013. "Überschreitet die EZB mit ihren Staatsanleihekäufen ihr Mandat?," Wirtschaftsdienst, Springer;ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 93(9), pages 607-615, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:wirtsc:v:93:y:2013:i:9:p:607-615
    DOI: 10.1007/s10273-013-1572-7
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    1. Helmut Siekmann, 2023. "Inflation, Price Stability, and Monetary Policy: On the Legality of Inflation Targeting by the Eurosystem," Financial and Monetary Policy Studies, in: Frank Rövekamp & Moritz Bälz & Hanns Günther Hilpert & Wook Sohn (ed.), Inflation and Deflation in East Asia, chapter 0, pages 125-146, Springer.

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    Keywords

    E42; E44; E52; E58; E61; E65;
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    JEL classification:

    • E42 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Monetary Sytsems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System
    • E44 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
    • E52 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Monetary Policy
    • E58 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Central Banks and Their Policies
    • E61 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Policy Objectives; Policy Designs and Consistency; Policy Coordination
    • E65 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Studies of Particular Policy Episodes

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