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Stable money and central bank independence : implementing monetary institutions in postwar Germany

Hefeker, Carsten - 2019

Germany prides itself in having one of the most successful central banks and currencies with respect to independence and stability. I show that not only were both imposed on the country after 1945 but that there was also initial resistance to both among German experts and officials. This is a...

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Federal monetary policy

Hefeker, Carsten - 2001

What is the optimal institutional structure for an independent central bank? The paper shows when it will be optimal for a country to have a central bank to be organized according to federal, purely national or a combination of both aspects. The analysis is then extended to a supranational...

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Central bank independence and conservatism under uncertainty : substitutes or complements?

Hefeker, Carsten; Zimmer, Blandine - 2011

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...

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Optimal conservatism and collective monetary policymaking under uncertainty

Hefeker, Carsten; Zimmer, Blandine - 2014

We study how the optimal degree of conservatism relates to decision-making procedures in a Monetary Policy Committee (MPC). In our framework, central bank conservatism is required to attenuate the volatility of monetary decisions generated by the presence of uncertainty about the committee...

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Structural reforms and the enlargement of monetary union

Hefeker, Carsten - 2003

The paper addresses the question what effects the enlargement of a monetary union will have on necessary structural reforms in the (low distortion) member countries and the (high distortion) candidate countries. While monetary union lowers reforms in the candidate countries, members of the...

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Structural reforms and the enlargement of monetary union

Hefeker, Carsten - 2000

The paper addresses the question what effects the enlargement of a monetary union will have on necessary structural refoms in the (low distortion) member countries and the (high distortion) candidate country. While monetary union lowers reforms in the candidate country, members of the monetary...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781545

Optimal central bank conservatism and monopoly trade unions

Berger, Helge; Hefeker, Carsten; Schöb, Ronnie - 2001

actually be welfare reducing if the trade union has an exogenously given preference against inflation. We reframe this …

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Fiscal transfers in a monetary union with exit option

Hefeker, Carsten; Neugart, Michael - 2015

' inflation aversion and exit costs. …

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One country, one vote? : labor market structure and voting rights in the ECB

Berger, Helge; Hefeker, Carsten - 2004

The pending enlargement of the European Monetary Union (EMU) has brought to the fore the discussion of the voting right distribution in the European Central Bank (ECB) council. We show that, in a model where labor unions internalize the inflationary consequences of wage setting, deviating from a...

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Common monetary policy with asymmetric shocks

Gros, Daniel; Hefeker, Carsten - 2002

decisions on the EU-wide average of inflation and growth or should it instead focus on (appropriately weighted) national welfare … losses based on national rates of inflation and growth? We find that a central bank that minimises the sum of national … common shocks is large relative to the inflation bias and if idiosyncratic demand shocks in the non-tradables sector are not …

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