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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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In the course of the EU enlargement process, the participation of accession countries in the European Monetary Union might lead to a significant redistribution of seigniorage wealth if current regulations prevail. In general, accession countries will be winners from this redistribution, for...
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The paper analyses the common European monetary policy based on a Mises-Hayek overinvestment framework, which is combined with the theory of optimum currency areas. It shows how since the turn of the millennium a too expansionary monetary policy contributed to unsustainable overinvestment booms...
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Beginning with the Reserve Bank of New Zealand Act of 1989, central banking reforms have focused on assigning clear … deviations from the rule a part of the central bank’s performance measure. …
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financial crisis. Relative to the size of the financial sector, central bank balance sheets had shrunk dramatically in the three …
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We examine "Forward Guidance Contracts", which make central bankers' utility contingent on the precision of interest-rate forecasts for some time. Such Forward Guidance Contracts are a exible commitment device and can improve economic performance when the economy is stuck in a liquidity trap....
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High-frequency changes in interest rates around FOMC announcements are a standard method of measuring monetary policy shocks. However, some recent studies have documented puzzling effects of these shocks on private-sector forecasts of GDP, unemployment, or inflation that are opposite in sign to...
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The Single Supervisory Mechanism was introduced to eliminate the common-pool problem and limit uncontrolled lending by national central banks (NCBs). We analyze its effectiveness. Second, we model how, by forbearing and providing refinancing credit, NCBs avoid domestic resolution costs and,...
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the ability of the central bank to alleviate the fiscal burden by inuencing different terms in the government resource … seignorage is generated and subject to what constraints, (iii) whether central bank liabilities should count as public debt, (iv …) how central bank assets create income risk, and whether or not this threatens its solvency, and (v) how the central bank …
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shows that the swap line mimics discount-window credit from the source central bank to the recipient-country banks using the … recipient central bank as the bearer of the credit risk. Second, from the perspective of the transmission of monetary policy, it …
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