This paper reconsiders the role of monetary policy in Sweden's strong recovery from the Great Depression. The Riksbank …, our findings suggest that Sweden avoided the worst excesses of the depression by conducting conservative rather than … innovative monetary policy. We find that, by keeping the Swedish krona undervalued to replenish foreign reserves, Sweden …

ineffective. We can rationalize this result with a novel model about the credibility of cheap-talk messages. This credibility is … credibility and show, both theoretically and experimentally, an interaction effect of network structure and communication …

This paper reports the results of a survey among private sector economists about credibility and transparency of … Survey to answer questions on the importance and determinants of credibility. The results of both surveys are very comparable …. Credibility is considered to be important to attain price stability at low cost, while the best ways to earn credibility are a …

We explore the relationship between international policy coordination and domestic policy credibility when both must be … possible to overcome the domestic credibility problem; and, conversely, the inability to precommit to policy domestically can …

small spending by special interests. -- lobbying ; voting ; special interests ; credibility …