generation €uro students' award 2013-2014 teachers' guide

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GENERATION URO

STUDENTS AWARD

2013-2014

T E A C H E R S G U I D E


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CONTENTS

Foreword rom Central Bank o Ireland Governor, Patrick Honohan

1. Introduction

- About the competition 4

- Participants 4

- Teams 4

- Registration 4

- Prizes 4

2. Teachers role 5

Mentoring 5

Resources

3. Rounds 5

Round 1: Online quiz 5 Round 2: Essay 5

Round 3: National Final 6

Questions and answers session 6

4. Composition o the expert panel 6

5. Assessment criteria 6

6. European Award Event 7

7. Privacy statement 7

8. Publicity 8

Appendix: Introduction to central banking and

monetary policy within the euro area 8

Schedule 12

Contacts at the Central Bank o Ireland 12


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FOREWORD

On behal o the Central Bank o Ireland, I am pleased to introduce this years Generation uroStudents Award.

Now in its third year, the competition continues to attract the best and brightest young talentrom students across Ireland who wish to learn more about economics and the important roleo monetary policy decision making. I am delighted to say that schools rom all our corners othe country took part last year and, in the end, Marian College in Dublin took home thecoveted title o National Winners.

The Generation uro Students Award is a great opportunity or the next generation to reecton the unctions perormed by the European Central Bank, the Eurosystem and each o the national central banks incontributing to monetary policy decisions and price stability or the euro area. The competition challengesstudents to think outside the classroom and develop key skills including economic reasoning, critical analysis, teamwork and public speaking; skills which we hope will become valuable to them in any walk o lie.

The competition comprises three rounds: an online quiz, an assignment and a presentation to the Central Bank oIreland at the National Final. As students work their way through the competition, they will learn rst-hand thecomplexity o decisions and variety o actors that contribute to monetary policy development. The National Winnerswill once again represent Ireland at the European Award Event in Frankurt, Germany, where they will meet ECBPresident, Mario Draghi and the winning teams rom across Europe and participate in a series o workshops andevents.

I wish those taking part the very best o luck and I hope that you enjoy the experience.

Patrick Honohan

Governor, Central Bank o Ireland


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Registration

To register or the competition, please visit

www.generationeuro.ie and complete the instructions

online under the drop-down menu or Ireland - English.

Registration is open rom 1 October and concludes with

the end o Round 1. Early registration and completion o

Round 1 is strongly advised.

When registering, teams will be asked to enter the

ollowing details:

Their school name, ull address and a telephone

number;

The name o one nominated teacher, their contact

email address and a contact telephone number

(correspondence with teams will be made via the

teacher); A team name (think of something creative!);

An email address or the team which will be used or

login purposes (we suggest you create a new email

address for the team);

The names o each student including the Team

Captain.

Prizes

The National Winners 2013/2014 will travel to the

European Award Event at the ECB in Frankurt, Germanyin April 2014 where they will be accompanied by their

teacher to attend a series o educational events.

The school will receive a specially-commissioned glass

trophy at the National Final in recognition o the teams

achievement and will eature in various promotional

materials.

All nalists will receive ramed Certicates o Excellence

rom the Governor o the Central Bank o Ireland and

individual book tokens.

Teams who successully complete Round 2 will receive

signed Certicates o Merit.

1. INTRODUCTION

About the competition

The Generation uro Students Award is the annual

teambased competition or secondary schools

organised by the Central Bank o Ireland in

conjunction with the European Central Bank (ECB).

The competition challenges Transition Year students to

learn about monetary policy instruments, in particular

interest rate decisions, and to simulate the role o the

Governing Council o the ECB to determine the most

appropriate interest rate or the euro area.

The competition comprises three separate rounds

including an online quiz, an essay and a presentation

by the nalists to a panel at the Central Bank o Ireland at

the National Final in March 2014.

Participants

The competition is open to all Transition Year students,

irrespective o the subjects they are currently studying.

However, it is most suitable or students interested in

pursuing studies or careers in economics, business

studies or accounting.

The competition is a challenging one and the standards

are high. However, we will provide lots o resources and

advice to help you through each round o the

competition.

Teams

A team consists oour students rom the same school

and one nominated teacher rom their school who will

act as mentor or the competition.

Students must nominate a Team Captain to co-ordinate

the eorts o the team at all stages o the competition.

The composition o the team should not change during

the competition unless exceptional circumstances, such

as illness, intervene. In such cases, teams may nominate

a reserve student and notiy the Central Bank o Ireland.

National Winners 2013 rom Marian College in Dublin


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2. TEACHERS ROLE

Mentoring

The teachers primary role is to act as mentor or the

team and to encourage amd motivate participants

through each round o the competition in order to

meet each deadline.

Using a variety o resources, teachers should oer

guidance to students and ensure that work presented is

consistent and o the required standard. Teams should

be encouraged to think independently and conduct

research o their own in order to complete each round, in

particular during Rounds 2 and 3.

Teachers will be expected to accompany successul

teams to Round 3, the National Final which will take

place at the Central Bank o Ireland beore an audience

o invited guests, and as part o their prize to the ECB

should they become National Winners.

In the interests o airness, we ask that only one teacher

be assigned to mentor each team. A reserve teacher maysubstitute in the event o exceptional circumstances.

Resources

You will have access to a number o resources to guide

and support your students through each round o the

competition. Your main resources will be:

The Facebook competition page at

www.acebook.com/generationeuroireland

The competition website,

www.generationeuro.ie, which provides a range o

competition-related inormation and materials to

assist in teaching the core concepts o monetary

policy.

The Central Bank o Ireland website,

www.centralbank.ieand Twitter account,

www.twitter.com/CentralBank_ie .

The ECB website, www.ecb.europa.eu .

Please encourage your students to become ans o the

Facebook competition page as it is the primary channel

or communicating directly with participants and will

contain lots o videos and other learning aids at dierent

stages o the competition.

3. ROUNDS

Round 1: Online quiz1 October 15 November 2013

The online quiz at www.generationeuro.ie consists o

30 randomly selected questions covering beginner,

intermediate and expert levels. Students must answer

the questions as a team and can start the quiz and return

at a later time - it does not have to be completed in one

session. The top scoring teams will be invited to

participate in the second round. You can also do a trial

run o the quiz beore starting i you wish.

Round 2: Essay22 November 2013 3 February 2014

The successul teams rom Round 1 will receive a

briefng paper which will challenge them to complete

an essay o 2,000 words in which they must use theirknowledge o economic theory to:

1. Explain the actors that aect price stability

and the role o monetary policy measures;

2. Decide on an appropriate interest rate or the

ECBs main renancing operations; and

3. Assess economic conditions in the euro area

on the basis o data available to the ECBs

Governing Council.

Reerence to non-standard monetary policy measuresmay also be required.

Teams must clearly state how they arrived at their

interest rate decision, based on their assessment o the

economic indicators available, the economic and

monetary conditions in the euro area. All team

members must be involved in writing the essay, which

should reect the opinion o the majority o the team.

Completed essays must be sent by email to

[email protected] beore 3 February

2014.

Essays will be assessed anonymously by a panel at the


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Central Bank o Ireland and the top three teams will

progress to the National Final.

Round 3: National Final10 March 2014

The top three teams will present their ndings to a senior

judging panel at the Central Bank o Ireland in Dublin at

the National Final which will take place in March 2014.

The event will be attended by the other nalists and

invited guests. Presentations must not exceed 20

minutes and should examine the economic conditions in

the euro area, provide an assessment o the economic

and ination outlook, and explain the teams interest rate

decision and relevant economic arguments.

Teams are encouraged to be creative in the

presentations they give and all team members should be

equally involved in the presentation. Teachers may not

participate or assist in the presentations at the event.

Further guidance and a presentation template will be

provided to the nalists in advance. The Central Bank oIreland will reimburse the travel costs o participants and

accompanying teachers.

Questions and answers session

Each presentation will be ollowed by a questions and

answers session lasting approximately 20 minutes.

The session will allow the panel to test the teams

understanding and knowledge o monetary policy and

to see how they justiy their interest rate decision.

Questions will be modelled on the monthly press

conerences that ollow the meeting o the Governing

Council o the ECB when the ECB s President explains the

interest rate decision. The press conerences are available

to view on the ECBs website at www.ecb.europa.eu and

updates will be provided throughout the competition

via the Facebook competition page.

Team members may be asked to clariy or expand on

points made during their presentation or to discuss the

workings o the economy and how their interest rate

decision will ull the Eurosystems mandate o achieving

price stability. The nal interest rate decision does not

have to be unanimous, but the various viewpoints must

be explained where opinion is divided. Teams may alsobe asked about major and current events in the real

world that may have aected the economy.

Team members are encouraged to coner with each

other beore replying to the panel. However, the more

time they spend conerring with each other, the less time

the panel will have to ask questions, which could

inuence their nal assessment.

Once all nalists have completed their presentations, the

panel will retire to deliberate. The panels decision will be

nal and will be announced in the presence o the other

nalists and invited guests.

4. COMPOSITION OFTHE EXPERT PANEL

The expert panel appointed to assess the essays and

presentations will comprise several senior economicexperts rom the Central Bank o Ireland. Further details

on the composition o the National Final panel will be

provided to teams in advance.

5. ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

The panel will assess essays on the basis o:

adherence to word count limit (2000 words);

presentation o material; the accuracy o the proposed interest rate decision

and the reasons or that decision; and

amiliarity with, and accurate use o, expressions

and terms related to monetary policy.

The panel will assess presentations on the basis o:

an assessment o economic conditions as per the

assignment;

an assessment o the economic and ination outlook

or the eurozone;

the suitability o the teams recommended interest

rate decision, with an emphasis on the explanation o


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the reasons or arriving at that decision;

evidence o independent research conducted;

originality o material;

clarity and accuracy o presentation; and the level o participation o team members.

6. EUROPEAN AWARD EVENT

The European Award Event at the ECB is an opportunity

or each o the winning teams rom across Europe to

learn more about the workings o the Eurosystem.

Students will meet the President o the ECB, the

Governors and representatives rom the various national

central banks taking part and each o the national

winning teams. Students will participate in a number o

group discussions and workshops with economists rom

the ECB.

In addition to the various learning benets, there is a

social aspect to the trip and students will take part in a

relaxed programme o events where they will visit the

city o Frankurt.

7. PRIVACY STATEMENT

i) Data protection and purpose o processing

Any personal data the students and teachers provide will

be processed in accordance with the Data Protection

Regulation (1). The Press and Inormation Division o the

European Central Bank (ECB) will collect and handle the

personal data as the data controller. The data processor

which hosts the Generation uro website and processesthe data on the website under instruction rom and on

behal o the ECB is Havas Worldwide Dusseldor GmbH

(Euro RSCG GmbH). Those who wish to enter the

competition have to ll in the orm on the Generation

uro website. All the participants data will be put into a

database. The data collected will be used to manage

participation in the competition, to access competition-

related inormation, to rank the participants, to award

the prizes and to contact and provide the participants

with any relevant inormation. Only the personal data

provided by registering on the Generation uro website

or by sending an e-mail to generationeuro@centralbank.

ie or [email protected] will be retained. Byentering their personal data, the participating students

and teachers agree to the publication o the name o the

winning team and its members on the websites o the

ECB and/or national central bank (NCBs) and/or to its

announcement at public events. It is also likely that

photographs will be taken and short video recordings

made o the winning teams on the national award days

and at the nal award event and that these will be

published by the ECB and/or NCBs.

ii) Security and transer to third parties

Personal data collected through the Generation uro

website may be transerred to the national central banks

(NCBs) o the euro area Member States to manage, where

necessary, the competition at national level. Any urther

processing o the personal data by the NCBs is subject to

the guarantees provided in the national legislation

implementing the Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC (2).

Havas Worldwide Dusseldor GmbH (Euro RSCG GmbH),

as data processor, and the NCBs have agreed to ensurethe condentiality o the personal data and provide

adequate protection o privacy. The central banks to

which the personal data may be disclosed are: the

European Central Bank, Nationale Bank van Belgie/

Banque Nationale de Belgique, Deutsche Bundesbank,

Eesti Pank, Central Bank o Ireland, Bank o Greece, Banco

de Espana, Banque de France, Banca dItalia, Central Bank

o Cyprus, Banque centrale du Luxembourg, Bank

entrali ta Malta/Central Bank o Malta, De

Nederlandsche Bank, Oesterreichische Nationalbank,

Banco de Portugal, Banka Slovenije, Narodna bankaSlovenska, Suomen Pankki Finlands Bank and, as o 1

January 2014, Latvijas Banka.

iii) Time limit and rights o access, correction and

deletion

The time limit or storing the above-mentioned data is

three years, starting rom the day when the personal

data, including a portrait, photograph or video, were

(1) Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 o the European Parliament and o the Council o 18 December 2000 on the protection o individuals with regardto the processing o personal data by the Community institutions and bodies and on the ree movement o such data. (2) Directive 95/46/EC o theEuropean Parliament and o the Council o 24 October 1995 on the protection o individuals with regard to the processing or personal data and onthe ree movement o such data.


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obtained. The students and teachers have the right to access,

correct and update the data about themselves. To make inquiries

about the collection and processing o personal data or to

exercise the right o access or rectication, a request should besent to [email protected]. Data subjects have the

right to resort to the European Data Protection Supervisor: www.

edps.europa.eu/EDPSWEB.

8. PUBLICITY

All national media activity is managed by the Central Bank o

Ireland and press will be notied at the end o each round o the

schools progressing to the ollowing round. Schools who have

reached Round 2 may inorm local media o their progress, i they

wish. However, please ensure the Central Bank o Ireland is

notied in advance as we may be able to assist you.

INTRODUCTION TOCENTRAL BANKINGAND MONETARY POLICY WITHINTHE EURO AREA

This inormation2 provides a brie overview o the European

System o Central Banks (ESCB), the Eurosystem and an

introduction to the monetary policy o the ECB. More detailed

inormation to help you prepare your students or the

competition, is available in the section entitled About the

Eurosystem on the Generation uro website.

The European System o Central Banks,the Eurosystem and the euro area

Since 1 January 1999 the ECB has been responsible orconducting monetary policy or the euro area the

worlds largest economy ater the United States. The

euro area consists o those countries in the European

Union that use the euro. It came into being when

responsibility or monetary policy was transerred rom

the national central banks o the (then) 11 countries to

the Governing Council o the European Central Bank

(ECB) in January 1999. Greece joined in 2001, Slovenia

in 2007, Cyprus and Malta in 2008, Slovakia in 2009 and

Estonia in 2011. Latvia is expected to join the euro area

on 1 January 2014, increasing the number o euro area

countries to 18. The launch o the euro area and the

creation o the ECB were milestones in the ongoing

process o European integration. To join the euro area,

all 17 countries had to ull the convergence criteria, as

will other EU Member States prior to adopting the euro.

The criteria set out the economic and legal

preconditions or countries to participate successully

in Economic and Monetary Union.

The legal basis or the single monetary policy is theTreaty on the Functioning o the European Union and

the Statute o the European System o Central Banks

(ESCB) and o the European Central Bank. The ECB was

established as the core o the Eurosystem and the ESCB.

The ECB and the national central banks (NCBs) together

perorm the tasks that they have been assigned.

The ESCB comprises the ECB and the NCBs o all EU

Member States, irrespective o whether they have

adopted the euro or not. The Eurosystem comprises the

ECB and the NCBs o those EU Member States whosecurrency is the euro.

The Eurosystem and the ESCB will coexist or as long as

there are EU Member States outside the euro area.

European Central Bank

The ECB is the central bank or Europes single currency,

the euro.

2 This chapter is based on inormation available on the ECBs website(www.ecb.europa.eu).

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Objectives

According to the Treaty, the main objective o the ESCB

is to maintain price stability. Without prejudice to thisobjective, the ESCB should support the general

economic policies in the EU, such as ull employment

and sustainable development.

The objective o monetary policyaccording to the Treaty

The Treaty establishes a clear hierarchy o objectives or

the Eurosystem, assigning overriding importance to

price stability. It also makes clear that ensuring price

stability is the most important contribution that

monetary policy can make to achieving a avourable

economic environment and ull employment.

These Treaty provisions reect the broad consensus that

the benets o price stability are substantial. Maintaining

stable prices on a sustained basis is a crucial

precondition or increasing economic welare and the

growth potential o an economy; the natural role o

monetary policy in an economy is to maintain price

stability. Monetary policy can aect real economicactivity in the shorter term, but ultimately can only

inuence the price level in an economy.

The Treaty provisions also imply that, in the actual

implementation o monetary policy decisions aimed at

maintaining price stability, the Eurosystem should also

take into account the broader economic goals o the EU.

In particular, given that monetary policy can aect real

activity in the shorter term, the ECB typically should

avoid generating excessive uctuations in output and

employment i this is in line with the pursuit o itsprimary objective.

Basic tasks

According to the Treaty the basic tasks to be carried out

through the ESCB are:

to dene and implement the monetary policy o the

Union;

to conduct oreign-exchange operations;

to hold and manage the ofcial oreign reserves o the

euro area countries; and

to promote the smooth operation o payment

systems.

Further ESCB tasks

The ESCB is also responsible or a number o additional

tasks in the ollowing elds:

Banknotes: the ECB and the NCBs are responsible or

issuing euro banknotes in the Eurosystem;

Statistics: in cooperation with the NCBs, the ECB

collects the statistical inormation it needs to ull its

tasks, either rom national authorities or directly rom

economic agents;

Financial stability and supervision: the ESCB

contributes to the smooth conduct o policies pursued

by the relevant authorities in matters relating to the

prudential supervision o credit institutions and the

stability o the nancial system;

International and European cooperation: the ECB

maintains working relations with relevant institutions,

bodies and orums both within the EU and

internationally in respect o tasks assigned to the

ESCB.

The ECBs Governing Council

The Governing Council is the main decision-makingbody o the ECB. It consists o:

the six members o the Executive Board; and

the governors o the NCBs o those Member States

whose currency is the euro.

Its responsibilities include:

adopting the regulations and taking the decisions

necessary to ensure the perormance o the tasks

assigned to the ESCB; and ormulating monetary policy or the euro area. This

includes taking decisions relating to monetary

objectives, key interest rates and the supply o

reserves in the Eurosystem, and establishing

guidelines or the implementation o those decisions.

Meetings and decisions o the ECBsGoverning Council

The Governing Council usually meets twice a month at

the Eurotower in Frankurt am Main, Germany. At its rst

meeting o each month, the Governing Council assesses

economic and monetary developments and takes its


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monthly monetary policy decision. At its second

meeting, it mainly discusses issues related to the other

tasks and responsibilities o the ECB and the Eurosystem.

Although the minutes o the meetings are not published,the monetary policy decision is explained in detail at a

press conerence held shortly ater the rst meeting o

each month. The President, assisted by the Vice

President, chairs the press conerence, which is divided

into two parts: the President rst reads out the

Introductory Statement, which provides the rationale or

the monetary policy decision taken by the Governing

Council and then answers the journalists questions.

The objective o price stability

The objective o price stability reers to the general level

o prices in the economy and implies avoiding prolonged

periods o both ination and deation.

The ECB denes its price stability objective as a year-on-

year increase in the Harmonised Index o Consumer

Prices (HICP) or the euro area o below, but close to, 2%

over the medium term.

Price stability contributes to achieving high levels oeconomic activity and employment by:

Improving the transparency o the price mechanism.

In an environment o stable prices, it is easier or

people to recognise changes in relative prices (i.e.

prices between dierent goods), instead o being

conused by widespread changes in the general price

level when ination is high. Consequently, they are

able to make well-inormed consumption and

investment decisions and to allocate resources, i.e.

their money, more efciently; Reducing ination risk premia in interest rates (i.e. the

compensation that investors demand or any

unexpected rise in ination during the period o their

investment). This reduces real interest rates and boosts

incentives to invest;

Rendering unnecessary unproductive activities aimed

at hedging against the negative impact o ination or

deation, e.g. holding on to goods in the expectation

that their price may increase;

Reducing distortions o ination or deation, which

can exacerbate the distortionary impact on the

economic behaviour o tax and social security systems;

and

Preventing an arbitrary redistribution o wealth and

income as a result o unexpected periods o ination

or deation.

The role o the Eurosystems monetarypolicy strategy

A monetary policy strategy is a coherent and structured

description o how monetary policy decisions will be

made in order to achieve the objective o a central bank.

The monetary policy strategy or the euro area has two

important tasks to ull.

First, by imposing a clear structure on the policy-making

process itsel, it ensures that the ECBs Governing Council

has at its disposal the necessary inormation and analyses

required to take monetary policy decisions.

Second, it is a vehicle or explaining such decisions to the

public. By contributing to the eectiveness o monetary

policy, and by signalling the Eurosystems commitment to

price stability, the strategy contributes to the credibility

o the Eurosystem in the nancial markets.

By setting short-term interest rates, the monetary policy

decisions o the ECBs Governing Council have aninuence on the economy and ultimately the price level.

Twopillar approach

Basis or the interest rate decision

The ECBs Governing Council has a specic approach to

determining the nature and extent o the risks to price

stability in the euro area over the medium term. This

approach to organising, evaluating and cross-checking

the inormation relevant or assessing the risks to pricestability is based on two complementary analytical

perspectives, reerred to as the two pillars:

the economic analysis; and

the monetary analysis.

The economic analysis is an assessment o the short to

medium-term inuences on price developments, with a

ocus on real activity (i.e. the production o goods and

services) and nancial conditions in the economy. It

takes account o the act that price developments over

those horizons are inuenced largely by the interplay o

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markets (e.g. actors o production such as labour, capital

and land).

The monetary analysis ocuses on the longer term, and

draws on the long-run link between money and prices. Itserves mainly as a means o cross-checking, rom a

medium to long-term perspective, the short to medium-

term indications or monetary policy stemming rom the

economic analysis.

The two-pillar approach is designed to ensure that no

relevant inormation is overlooked in the assessment o

risks to price stability and that sufcient attention is paid

to dierent perspectives and the cross-checking o

inormation in order to come to an overall judgement on

the risks to price stability. It represents a diversied

analysis and ensures robust decision-making.

Monetary policy instruments

Monetary policy operates by steering short-term interest

rates, thereby inuencing economic developments, in

the best possible way. The steering o short-term interest

rates is carried out through the operational

implementation o monetary policy. To this end, the

Eurosystem has at its disposal a set o monetary policyinstruments, namely open market operations, standing

acilities and minimum reserves

A: Open market operations

The most important monetary policy instrument is the

open market operation, which serves to:

steer interest rates;

manage the liquidity situation in the money market;

and signal the monetary policy stance.

Open market operations can be divided into the

ollowing our categories:

main renancing operations, which are regular

liquidity-providing reverse transactions with a weekly

requency and a maturity o one week;

longer-term renancing operations, which are

liquidity-providing reverse transactions with a

monthly requency and a maturity o three months;

ne-tuning operations, which are executed on an ad

hoc basis and are aimed at managing the liquidity

situation in the market and steering interest rates, in

particular to smooth the eects on interest rates o

unexpected uctuations in market liquidity; and

structural operations, which are carried out through

the issuance o debt certicates, reverse transactionsand outright transactions.

B: Standing acilities

The Eurosystem also oers standing acilities, which aim

to provide and absorb overnight liquidity and set the

boundaries or overnight market interest rates:

the marginal lending acility, which allows counterparties

(i.e. nancial institutions such as banks) to obtain

overnight liquidity rom the euro area national central

banks against eligible assets; and

the deposit acility, which can be used by counterparties

to make overnight deposits with the euro area

national central banks.

C: Minimum reserves

The Eurosystem requires credit institutions to hold

minimum reserves on accounts with the euro area

national central banks. The purpose o the minimumreserve system is to stabilise money market interest rates

and to create or enlarge a structural liquidity shortage.

D: Nonstandard measures

Since the intensication o the nancial crisis in

September 2008, the ECB has introduced a number o

non-standard monetary policy measures that are

unprecedented in nature, scope and magnitude with the

aim to saeguard the primary objective o price stability

and ensure an appropriate monetary policy transmissionmechanism. These measures orm part o the

Eurosystems monetary policy implementation toolbox,

but are by denition exceptional and temporary in

nature. Usually, these measures are aimed at the banking

sector, given the reliance o companies in the euro area

on nancing by banks (as opposed to nancing via

capital markets). Some examples o these measures are

the ollowing:

Fixed rate, ull-allotment liquidity provision;

Expansion o list o assets eligible as collateral;

Longer-term liquidity provision;

Liquidity provision in oreign currencies;

Changes in the required reserve ratio;

Outright purchases o specic debt securities.


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SCHEDULE

THE COMPETITION WILL TAKE PLACE DURING 2013/2014 AS FOLLOWS*:

Round 1 Online quiz: 1 October to 15 November 2013

Round 2 Essay: 22 November 2013 to 3 February 2014

Round 3 National Final at the Central Bank o Ireland: 10 March 2014

European Award Event at the European Central Bank: April 2014 (date tbc)

CONTACT US

We are more than happy to help you with

any questions you may have over the course o the competition.

Please email us at [email protected]

or call(01) 224 6293

Website:www.generationeuro.ie

Facebook: www.acebook.com/GenerationEuroIreland

* All dates are subject to change and are provided as a guide only

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