Decision-Making of the Ecb: Reform and Voting Power

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Katrin Ullrich

Center for European Economic Research (ZEW)

Date Written: 2004

Abstract

The ECB reform is designed to meet the challenges of an enlarged monetary union in the ECB Council. The reform is assessed by analysing alternatives for the classification of governors into groups of the rotation scheme like the synchronisation of the economic development of the member states. In a second approach, voting power indices are assigned to the governors allocated to the different groups instead of voting weights. Special attention is given to the difference between the political weight of a governor and the economic and population weight of its country of origin.

Keywords: ECB, reform, rotation scheme, voting power indices

JEL Classification: E58

Suggested Citation

Ullrich, Katrin, Decision-Making of the Ecb: Reform and Voting Power (2004). ZEW - Centre for European Economic Research Discussion Paper No. 04-070, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=604464 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.604464

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