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The Role of the Ifo Business Climate Indicator and Asset Prices in German Monetary Policy

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I thank Bob Chirinko and Leo de Haan for sharing their knowledge, Jan Jacobs for helpful remarks and especially Frank Westermann for essential suggestions. This paper is sponsored by CESifo. I gratefully acknowledge the support of Timo Wollmershäuser and Jan-Egbert Sturm.

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  1. Department of Economics, University of Groningen, P.O. Box 800, 9700 AV, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Elmer Sterken

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  1. Department of Economics, University of Konstanz, P.O. Box D 131, 78457, Konstanz, Germany

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  2. TWI — Thurgau Institute of Economics, Hauptstraße 90, P.O. Box 8280, Kreuzlingen 2, Switzerland

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  3. Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Poschingerstraße 5, 81679, Munich, Germany

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Sterken, E. (2005). The Role of the Ifo Business Climate Indicator and Asset Prices in German Monetary Policy. In: Sturm, JE., Wollmershäuser, T. (eds) Ifo Survey Data in Business Cycle and Monetary Policy Analysis. Contributions to Economics. Physica-Verlag HD. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-7908-1605-1_8

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