This paper provides new empirical evidence on policy-makers' voting patterns on interest rates. Applying (pooled …) Taylor-type rules and using real-time information available from published inflation reports and voting records, the paper …

We consider a committee voting setup with two rounds of voting where committee members who possess private information … information in the first voting period. Coughlan (2000) shows that members reveal their information in a straw poll only if their …

decision by mitigating a voting externality. Hence, institutions may adopt public voting when the fear of blame is too little …, and secret voting when the fear is too much. We also show that public voting is particularly desirable in committees with … overly biased members or overly biased voting rules against the alternative …

We examine whether it is socially beneficial for the individual voting records of central bank council members to be … efficient central bankers in their bid to get re-elected. After re-election, however, losses will be lower when voting records … and can make central bankers individually accountable. Nevertheless, the negative effects of voting transparency …