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Does conservatism matter? : a time series approach to central banking

Berger, Helge; Woitek, Ulrich - 1999

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 …

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Optimal central bank conservatism and monopoly trade unions

Berger, Helge; Hefeker, Carsten; Schöb, Ronnie - 2001

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

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One country, one vote? : labor market structure and voting rights in the ECB

Berger, Helge; Hefeker, Carsten - 2004

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

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How should large and small countries be represented in a currency union?

Berger, Helge (contributor); Mueller, Till (contributor) - 2004

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

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Restructuring the ECB

Berger, Helge; Haan, Jakob de; Inklaar, Robert - 2003

size and voting power. One way to implement this principle is a rotation scheme for national central bank governors that …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011511101

Policy rules, regime switches, and trend inflation : an empirical investigation for the U.S.

Castelnuovo, Efrem; Greco, Luciano; Raggi, Davide - 2010

This paper estimates Taylor rules featuring instabilities in policy parameters, switches in policy shocks' volatility, and time-varying trend inflation using post-WWII U.S. data. The model embedding the stochastic target performs better in terms of data-fit and identification of the changes in...

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Positive trend inflation and determinacy in a medium-sized new keynesian model

Arias, Jonas E.; Ascari, Guido; Branzoli, Nicola; … - 2018

This paper studies the challenge that increasing the inflation target poses to equilibrium determinacy in a medium-sized New Keynesian model without indexation fitted to the Great Moderation era. For moderate targets of the inflation rate, such as 2 or 4 percent, the probability of determinacy...

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Monetary policy and asset prices : a look at past US stock market booms

Bordo, Michael D.; Wheelock, David C. - 2004

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Inflation, monetary policy and stock market conditions

Bordo, Michael D.; Dueker, Michael; Wheelock, David C. - 2008

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Uncertainty and monetary policy in good and bad times : a replication of the VAR investigation by Bloom (2009)

Caggiano, Giovanni; Castelnuovo, Efrem; Nodari, Gabriela - 2020

This paper revisits the well-known VAR evidence on the real effects of uncertainty shocks by Bloom (Econometrica 2009(3): 623-685. doi: 10.3982/ECTA6248). We replicate the results in a narrow sense using Eviews. In a wide sense, we extend his study by working with a smooth transition-VAR...

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