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Informationen zum Autor By Karl Kaltenthaler Klappentext Drawing on numerous interviews with high-ranking and founding members of the European Central Bank (ECB), Karl Kaltenthaler identifies and explains the factors that shape the bank's domestic and international monetary strategies. The policy-making model that offers the best roadmap to a healthy economy is that of the German Bundesbank. To secure the long-term needs of the economy, the decisionmakers in the ECB have created a model that attempts to replicate the Bundesbank's success at the European level and to lend credibility to their own policies. Offering unprecedented access to internal decisionmaking at the ECB, Policymaking in the European Central Bank will interest readers who want to understand this important European institution. Zusammenfassung Identifies and explains the factors that shape the domestic and international monetary strategies of the European Central Bank (ECB). Offering access to the internal decision-making at the ECB! this work is of interest to readers who want to understand this important European institution. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 The Origins of the ECB Chapter 3 The Formation of the ECB's Monetary Policy Strategy Chapter 4 The Structure and Strategy of the ECB Chapter 5 The ECB's Operating Environment Chapter 6 The Exchange Rate Challenge Chapter 7 European Monetary Union Enlargement and the European Central Bank Chapter 8 Conclusion