TY - UNPD A1 - Binder, Michael A1 - Wieland, Volker T1 - The European Central Bank T2 - Center for Financial Studies (Frankfurt am Main): CFS working paper series ; No. 2007,03 N2 - The establishment of the ECB and with it the launch of the euro has arguably been a unique endeavor in economic history, representing an important experiment in central banking. This note aims to summarize some of the main lessons learned from this experiment and sketch some of the prospects for the ECB. It is written for "The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics", 2nd edition. JEL Classification: E52, E58 T3 - CFS working paper series - 2007, 03 KW - Central Banking KW - European Central Bank KW - Euro KW - Monetary Union KW - Europäische Zentralbank Y1 - 2007 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/1619 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-38126 IS - This Version November 2006 ER -