The paper discusses key elements of optimal central bank design and applies its findings to the Eurosystem. A …

The empirical literature on central banking has found measures of central bank independence/conservatism to be …. We find that an increase in central bank conservatism leads to higher short-term interest rates and a more activist … economy, higher output and somewhat lower inflation. We also investigate the interaction between the central bank and the …

welfare gain associated with making the central bank less conservative than society, however if the outside option is in real … of central bank conservatism. …

This paper examines how managers at the top of a public institution, central bank executives, allocate their working … time. Using detailed information from personal diaries of the six members of the European Central Bank's Executive Board …

distribution in the European Central Bank (ECB) council. We show that, in a model where labor unions internalize the inflationary …

representation in a federal central bank addressing this question. Optimal voting weights reflect two opposing forces: the wish to …

often aim for broad national representation. Reviewing evidence from the European Central Bank, we show that nationality is … business areas best describe the central bank's interest-rate setting behavior. -- organization ; central bank ; nationality …