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We study the optimal design of a disinflation plan by a planner who lacks commitment. Having announced a plan, the Central banker faces a tradeoff between surprise inflation and building reputation, defined as the private sector's belief that the Central bank is committed to the plan. Some plans...
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This paper uses a stochastic continuous time model of the firm to study how different corporate governance structures affect the agency cost of debt. In the absence of asymmetric information, it shows that control of the firm by debtholders with a minority stake delays the exit decision and...
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The bulk of corporate governance theory examines the agency problems that arise from two extreme ownership structures …
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Understanding the sources of inflation persistence is crucial for monetary policy. This paper provides an empirical assessment of the influence of inflation expectations' anchoring on the persistence of inflation. We construct a novel index of inflation expectations' anchoring using survey-based...
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government borrowing costs below rates of growth ("r < g") generate a "free lunch" in the sense that debt sustainability does not …", albeit of limited size. The value of such services depends on the credibility of the central bank, which can be accumulated …
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policy credibility. Under the floating regime, Chile's economic adjustment to external shocks appears significantly improved …
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extended model does a much better job in accounting for the deterioration in monetary policy credibility and the output costs …-output process that arise from convexity in the Phillips curve and endogenous monetary policy credibility. We find that the dynamic … of regaining monetary policy credibility once it has been lost …
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A loss of solvency increases central bank vulnerability, reducing the credibility of commitments to defend a nominal …
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This paper presents a model for Inflation Targeting under imperfect policy credibility. It modifies the conventional … model in three ways: an endogenous policy credibility process, by which monetary policy can gain or lose credibility over … time; non-linearities in the inflation equation and in the credibility generating process; and an explicit loss function …
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