Key Holders of Economic Policy in the World and Their Status: German Central Bank - Deutsche Bundesbank Cover Image

Kľúčoví nositelia hospodárskej politiky vo svete a ich postavenie: nemecká centrálna banka Deutsche Bundesbank
Key Holders of Economic Policy in the World and Their Status: German Central Bank - Deutsche Bundesbank

Author(s): Jana Koprlová
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: Univerzita sv. Cyrila a Metoda v Trnave, Katedra politológie
Keywords: state’s economic policy; monetary policy; financial relations; central bank; the Bundesbank; the Bundesbank Law; authorities of the Bundesbank; political and legal status of the Bundesbank; the Bundesbank independence; the German federal government

Summary/Abstract: The following contribution describes and explains the main philosophy, purpose and mission as well as historical background, basic structure, key features and role played by the German central bank Bundesbank as an unique example for a notably independent holder of state’s economic and especially monetary policy, in its whole performance in both historical and current internal political and economic relations, with the key accent on a brief review and clarifying the main processes of creation of political and legal status of the Bundesbank in the face of the German federal government as well as in relation to general public perception of the Bundesbank's decision and policy making processes, with the special accent on its mission played in processes of creating the independence status of the European Central Bank.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 16-37
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Slovak