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Steady as she goes: The ECB keeps policy rate unchanged again
After having raised the key policy interest rate in April (from 1 to 1.25 %), the ECB kept it unchanged on June 9, thus repeating their “non-action” of May. This is a somewhat bold and perhaps unconventional move by a central bank whose overriding legal mandate is price stability. Given their own definition of price stability as meaning an annual Euro-wide HICP-inflation rate not above 2%, you would have thought that the increase in April would have been followed by further increases. After all, HICP-inflation is currently above 2.5%, and unemployment is falling slightly (continuing the downward adjustment, which I have argued earlier could have been the trigger for the … Continue reading
Posted in Economists, Macroeconomics, Monetary policy
Tagged Andrew T. Levin, Benjamin K. Johannsen, Euro, European Central Bank, interest rate, Jean Claude Trichet, Meredith J. Beechy
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