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domestic monetary policy interest rates can have sizable effects on central bank's net worth. In this paper we examine … measure of central bank financial strength. Our findings, using linear and nonlinear techniques, suggests that central bank …
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This paper discusses operational issues for countries that want to reform their monetary policy frameworks. It argues that stabilizing short-term interest rates on a day-to-day basis has significant advantages, and thus that short-term interest rates, not reserve money, in most cases should be...
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central bank, the Safeguards Assessments Division of the IMF's Finance Department developed a tool that facilitates … provided to the central bank which provide a roadmap to advance the risk management function …
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governance. This form of oversight is the decision-making responsibility through which an internal body of the central bank …-the Oversight Board-ensures that the central bank is well-managed. First, the paper will contextualize the role of Board oversight … into the broader legal structure for central bank governance by considering this form of oversight as one of the core …
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We study the optimal design of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) in an environment where agents sort into cash …, CBDC and bank deposits according to their preferences over anonymity and security; and where network effects make the … deposits, and can be interest-bearing: a CBDC that closely competes with deposits depresses bank credit and output, while a …
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This paper examines the impact of a monetary policy shock on output, prices, and the nominal effective exchange rate for Kenya using data during 1997-2005. Based on techniques commonly used in the vector autoregression literature, the main results suggest that an exogenous increase in the...
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I test whether inflation targeting (IT) enhances transparency using inflation forecast data for 11 IT adoption countries. IT adoption promotes convergence in forecast errors, suggesting that it enhances transparency. This effect is robust to dropping observations, is strengthened by using...
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This paper analyzes empirically differences in the size of central bank boards across countries. Defining a board as … 84 central bank boards at the end of 2003. We find that larger and more heterogeneous countries, countries with stronger …
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This paper provides a simple, quantitative, net worth-based, approach to assessing the need for central bank capital …. It derives a concept of core capital (a function of the central bank`s operating expenditures and the carrying cost of … its international reserves) as the minimum capital needed by a central bank to ensure the credibility of its inflation …
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sectoral labor mobility and the optimal weight the central bank should attach to durables inflation arises. The combination of …
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