The Selected Aspects of Application of Monetary Policy in the Economic and Monetary Union Pre-and-Post 2008

• Authors: Marek Vojtaššák
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Purpose of the article is to present in two parts the selected aspects of application of monetary policy in the euro area pre and post 2008 as well as insitutional adaptations brought by the EU legislator. Methodology/methods In order to better explain these points, the article relies partially on a comparison with the framework and application of the monetary policy by the Federal Reserve as well as on a historic method when outlining the influence of definition of financial stability from the ECB/Eurosystem towards other prominent central banks. Scientific aim The article presents selected aspects of the monetary policy in the part of the EU where single currency was introduced in order to outline state of the art governance structure as well as a certain institutional creativity in application of powers conferred upon the central banks by the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and Protocol on the Statute of the European System of Central Banks and of the European Central Bank. The goal is to prove (i) the hypothesis of robustness of the framework and (ii) present the limits that can only be pushed further by the legislative power. The conclusions confirm on the one hand that the framework of monetary policy based on strong institutional safeguards such as legislative power and independence is very resilient and can prove efficient and creative enough to stabilise an innovative monetary system, however, on the other hand, validate the hypothesis that certain adaptations can only be performed on the basis of a legislative adaptations.

Keywords

EN

European Central Bank; Eurosystem; monetary policy; central banking; E52; E58; F02

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Creative and Knowledge Society
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 4
• Issue: 2

Dates

published

2014-12-01

online

2016-02-04

Contributors

author

Marek Vojtaššák

• Paneuropean University, Faculty of Law, Tomášikova 20, SK-821 02 Bratislava; Banque Centrale du Luxembourg, 2, Boulevard Royal L-2983, Luxembourg

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/cks-2014-0010