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The Role of Political Institutions for the Effectiveness of Central Bank Independence
Hielscher, Kai; Markwardt, Gunther - 2021
independence and inflation. Making use of data on the evolution of central bank independence over time and controlling for possible … country’s inflation performance. Examining a cross-section of up to 69 countries, we are able to show that granting a central … bank more autonomy does not necessarily lead to better inflation performance. To lower inflation by increasing independence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316036
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Monetary Policy in Turkey after Central Bank Independence
Gürkaynak, Refet S. - 2015
inflation targeter early in this period but began to pay less attention to inflation after 2009. Loss of the strong nominal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011437
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Political Pressures and Monetary Mystique
Geraats, Petra M. - 2021
Central bank independence and transparency have become best practice in monetary policy. This paper cautions that transparency about economic information may not be beneficial in the absence of central bank independence. The reason is that it reduces monetary uncertainty, which could make the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317033
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Central Bank Independence and Conservatism Under Uncertainty : Substitutes or Complements?
Hefeker, Carsten - 2013
The paper examines the optimal combination of central bank independence and conservatism in the presence of uncertain central bank preferences. We develop a model of endogenous monetary policy delegation in which government chooses the central bank's degree of inde-pendence and conservatism so...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013093869
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Optimal Fiscal Action in an Economy with Sovereign Premia and Without Monetary Independence : An Application to Italy
Philippopoulos, Apostolis - 2013
We welfare rank various tax-spending policies. The setup is a New Keynesian model of a semi-small open economy featuring sovereign risk premia and loss of monetary policy independence. The model is calibrated to match data from the Italian economy 2001-2011. We compute various optimized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082637
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Regional Heterogeneity, the Rise of Public Debt and Monetary Policy in Post-Bubble Japan : Lessons for the EMU
Fischer, Raphael - 2016
Both Japan and parts of the European Monetary Union have experienced boom and bust in stock and real estate markets, which have been followed by a lasting crisis. The paper analyses the role of a high degree of regional heterogeneity for public debt and monetary policy in the context of crisis....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012988893
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The Role of Political Institutions for the Effectiveness of Central Bank Independence
Hielscher, Kai; Markwardt, Gunther - CESifo - 2011
independence and inflation. Making use of data on the evolution of central bank independence over time and controlling for possible … country’s inflation performance. Examining a cross-section of up to 69 countries, we are able to show that granting a central … bank more autonomy does not necessarily lead to better inflation performance. To lower inflation by increasing independence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008914290
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The Macroeconomic Policy Challenges of Balance Sheet Recession : Lessons from Japan for the European Crisis
Schnabl, Gunther - 2013
The paper compares the boom-and-bust cycles in Japan and Europe with respect to the reasons for excessive booms, the characteristics of the crises, and the (potential) effects of the crisis therapies. As in Japan the consequence of expansionary monetary and fiscal policies is the hysteresis of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013081055
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China's Exchange Rate Impasse and the Weak U.S. Dollar
McKinnon, Ronald; Schnabl, Gunther - 2021
excess liquidity reminiscent of the global inflation generated by the weak dollar in the 1970s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316479
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Fiscal Policy Sustainability, Economic Cycle and Financial Crises : The Case of the GIPS
Legrenzi, Gabriella Deborah - 2014
We extend previous work on the sustainability of the government's intertemporal budget constraint by allowing for non-linear adjustment of the fiscal variables, conditional on the sign of budgetary disequilibria and the phase of the economic cycle. Further, our endogenously estimated threshold...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013065030