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This paper reviews the fiscal activities that governments in a sample of 26 developing countries have obliged their central banks to undertake. In the main, these activities fall under five categories: (1) collecting seigniorage; (2) imposing financial restriction; (3) implementing selective...
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We analyse optimal discretionary games between a benevolent central bank and a myopic government in a New Keynesian model. First, when lump-sum taxes are available and public debt is absent, we show that a Nash game results in too much government spending and excessively high interest rates,...
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may arise. Ex-ante, the central bank chooses the socially optimal level of inflation. Ex-post, however, the central bank … chooses inflation above the social optimum to reduce the real value of private debt. This inefficient outcome arises when …
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Central bank financial strength is positively associated with good policy performance. Financially weak central banks generate losses which undermine macroeconomic stability and call into question the credibility of their policies. In assessing central bank financial strength a careful...
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Drawing on the 2016 update of the IMF's Central Bank Legislation Database, this paper examines differences in central bank legal frameworks before and after the Global Financial Crisis. Examples from select countries show that many central bank laws have undergone changes in objectives,...
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between monetary autonomy and inflation dynamics in a panel of Caribbean countries over the period 1980-2017. The empirical … results show that monetary independence is a significant factor in determining inflation, even after controlling for … monetary policy for domestic purposes independent of external monetary influences, leads to lower consumer price inflation …
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may arise. Ex-ante, the central bank chooses the socially optimal level of inflation. Ex-post, however, the central bank … chooses inflation above the social optimum to reduce the real value of private debt. This inefficient outcome arises when …
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). Fiscal dominance has always been a pressing problem as it can contribute to inflation and macroeconomic instability, and … and inflation …
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This paper explores the relationship between the constitutional entrenchment of central bank independence and inflation … by the ""de jure"" independence established in the central bank law, and inflation. We argue that the constitution is … constitution have a better inflation performance …
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available to the authorities and the nature of the policy game play a key role in determining the inflation rate and output in … the economy. Furthermore, the model can be solved for the optimal degree of inflation aversion of the central bank. , a …
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