What Is the European Central Bank?
The ECB aims for 2 percent inflation over the medium term and treats deviations up and down as equally undesirable.
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1.What is the ECB's primary goal?
The ECB aims for 2 percent inflation over the medium term and treats deviations up and down as equally undesirable.
2.Who sets the key interest rates for the whole euro area?
The council is the highest decision-making body; Leo and Marge in two euro countries get the same key rate.
3.Who sits on the Governing Council?
Since 2015 the governors take turns holding voting rights, so not everyone votes every time.
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Sources (11)
- Price stability (ECB, Our monetary policy)
- Introduction to monetary policy (ECB)
- Decision-making bodies (ECB)
- Governing Council (ECB)
- Independence (ECB)
- Accountability (ECB)
- Asset purchase programme (APP) (ECB)
- Weiss (C-493/17), Urteil
- Bundesverfassungsgericht, Urteil vom 5. May 2020, 2 BvR 859/15 u. a., Pressemitteilung "ECB decisions on the Public Sector Purchase Programme exceed EU competences"
- Tasks (ECB)
- The transmission mechanism of monetary policy (ECB)
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