What's working at one of the domestic central banks in the euro area like nowadays? With no monetary policy decisions to find backing for, I'm guessing work has gotten a lot less interesting - has it?
Euro area central banks
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Nope, not necessarily. Could be more interesting. Financial regulation is the new black, and the ECB has no responsibilities in that area. It's all done at country level, and some of it in Brussels.
Besides, the ECB belongs to the euro area central banks, so each bank still needs to have a monetary policy in mind, to know what to push for in Frankfurt.
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Not at a CB myself, but what I've always understood is that the work at most CBs actually became more interesting. Before the euro, policy in NL, Austria, Belgium was simply to mimic the Bundesbank, but now they have to actually participate in real policy discussions. When the euro came into existence, the research departments at the smaller (follower) CBs supposedly increased, rather than decreased...