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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

Squeezing the interest rate smoothing weight with a hybrid expectations model

Castelnuovo, Efrem - 2003

Successful descriptions of short-term nominal interest rates inertial behavior have frequently been obtained with small scale macro models in which a Central Banker minimizes a loss function embedding an argument labelled as interest rate smoothing. The rationale for this argument is not...

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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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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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Uncertainty and monetary policy in good and bad times

Caggiano, Giovanni; Castelnuovo, Efrem; Nodari, Gabriela - 2017

We investigate the role played by systematic monetary policy in tackling the real effects of uncertainty shocks in U.S. recessions and expansions. We model key indicators of the business cycle with a nonlinear VAR that allows for different dynamics in busts and booms. Uncertainty shocks are...

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What does monetary policy reveal about central bank's preferences?

Castelnuovo, Efrem; Surico, Paolo - 2002

The design of monetary policy depends upon the targeting strategy adopted by the central bank. This strategy describes …, we develop a novel calibration method to identify central bank's preferences from the estimates of an optimal Taylor …

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