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title: European Central Bank Interest Rates
description: OpenBB Platform Data Model
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## Implementation details

### Class names

| Model name | Parameters class | Data class |
| ---------- | ---------------- | ---------- |
| `EuropeanCentralBankInterestRates` | `EuropeanCentralBankInterestRatesQueryParams` | `EuropeanCentralBankInterestRatesData` |

### Import Statement

```python
from openbb_core.provider.standard_models.ecb_interest_rates import (
EuropeanCentralBankInterestRatesData,
EuropeanCentralBankInterestRatesQueryParams,
)
```

## Parameters

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| Name | Type | Description | Default | Optional |
| ---- | ---- | ----------- | ------- | -------- |
| start_date | Union[date, str] | Start date of the data, in YYYY-MM-DD format. | None | True |
| end_date | Union[date, str] | End date of the data, in YYYY-MM-DD format. | None | True |
| interest_rate_type | Literal['deposit', 'lending', 'refinancing'] | The type of interest rate. | lending | True |
| provider | Literal['fred'] | The provider to use for the query, by default None. If None, the provider specified in defaults is selected or 'fred' if there is no default. | fred | True |
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## Data

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| Name | Type | Description |
| ---- | ---- | ----------- |
| date | date | The date of the data. |
| rate | float | European Central Bank Interest Rate. |
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