Change at the ECB executive board

Intereconomics

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 93-99

  Eijffinger, Sylvester C W ^a,b,c  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c CEPR   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33746893358     PISSN: 00205346     EISSN: 1613964X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10272-006-0181-8     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. R. Baldwin, E. Berglof, F. Giavazzi, M. Widgren: Preparing the ECB for Enlargement, CEPR Policy Paper, No. 6, London 2001, CEPR.
2. H. Berger: The ECB and Euro-Area Enlargement, IMF Working Paper No. 02/ 175.
3. H. Berger, J. De Haan, R. Inklaar: Restructuring the ECB, in: H. Berger, T. Moutos (eds.): Managing European Union Enlargement, Cambridge Mass. 2004, MIT Press, pp. 29-66.
4. This section is heavily based on Chapter 7 of: J. De Haan, S. C. W. Eijffinger, S. Waller: The European Central Bank: Centralization, Transparency and Credibility, Cambridge Mass. 2005, MIT Press.
5. For further discussion see also the Briefi ng Papers of February 2003 by the members of the Monetary Experts Panel, for example P. Bofinger and D. Gros, for the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs of the European Parliament.
6. Cf. H. Berger, op. cit.
7. R. Baldwin, E. Berglof, F. Giavazzi, M. Widgren, op. cit.
8. D. Gros: Reforming the Composition of the ECB Governing Council in View of Enlargement: How Not to Do It!, Briefing Paper for the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs of the European Parliament, February 2003.
9. Ibid.
10. P. Bofinger: Consequences of the Modification of the Governing Council Rules, Briefing Paper for the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs of the European Parliament, February 2003.
11. H. Berger, J. De Haan, R. Inklaar, op. cit.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. P. Bofinger, op. cit.
16. Ibid.
17. D. Gros, op. cit.
18. H. Berger, J. De Haan, R. Inklaar, op. cit.
19. H. Berger, J. De Haan: Are Small Countries too Powerful Within the ECB?, in: Atlantic Economic Journal, Vol. 30, No. 3, 2002, pp. 263-282.
20. Cf. European Central Bank: Press Release on "ECB opinion on the appointment of a new member of the Executive Board of the ECB", Frankfurt-am-Main, 2 March 2006.
21. Cf. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System: Federal Reserve Act And Other Statutory Provisions Affecting the Federal Reserve System, Washington DC, August 1990. Section 10.1 (1-077) of the Federal Reserve Act reads as follows: "The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (hereinafter referred to as the "Board") shall be composed of seven members, to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate,..., for terms of fourteen years except as hereinafter provided,..."