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Frequently asked questions about monetary policy
Interest rates
Interest rates
What are interest rates?
Nominal and real interest rates:
What is the economy’s natural rate of interest?
What is the effective lower bound (ELB) on interest rates?
What are reference interest rates?
What is the yield curve?
Related Information
Interest rate statistics.
RELATED PUBLICATIONS
The natural interest rate: concept, determinants and implications for monetary policy (2017).
The estimated natural rate of interest (Box 3.1 of the Annual Report 2018).
The rise and fall of the natural interest rate (2018)
The reform of benchmark rates: from EONIA to €STR (Box 2.1 of the Financial Stability Report, spring 2019).
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Other useful information
Nominal and real interest rates (ECB website).
Euro area yield curves (ECB website).
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