more foreign-currency debt. We propose that monetary policy credibility explains the currency composition of sovereign debt … and nominal bond risks in the presence of risk-averse investors. In our model, low credibility governments inflate during … inflation, investors require risk premia on nominal debt, making nominal debt issuance costly for low credibility governments …

price stability. The benefits of credibility (private inflation expectations coinciding with the inflation target) are … discussed. Credibility improves the tradeoff between inflation variability, output-gap variability and instrument variability …

restrictions on expectations that allow the monetary authority to build credibility for a disinflationary policy by demonstrating …

Central bank credibility plays a pivotal role in much of the modern literature on monetary policy, yet it is difficult … important issues: why credibility matters, and how credibility can be built. The central bankers' answers are compared with the …