Peter Praet: Monetary policy in the context of balance sheet adjustments Speech by Mr Peter Praet, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington DC, 22 May 2013. *  *  *  I would like to thank Fédéric Holm-Hadulla and Massimo Rostagno for their contribution to preparing this speech.
In most countries today including our own, there are greater  demands from the profession of statistics for policy inputs and decision making. Such rising demands on the profession necessitate robust quality of statistics and statistical methods.