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This paper examines the historical evolution of central bank credibility using both historical narrative and empirics for a group of 16 countries, both advanced and emerging. It shows how the evolution of credibility has gone through a pendulum where credibility was high under the classical gold...
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United States and Canada, 1870-1913. Both countries adhered to the international gold standard. This meant that the domestic … response to supply' shocks. For Canada the results are murkier. As in the U.S., the money supply shocks before 1896 are … shocks play a larger role in determining output behavior in Canada. The key conclusion of our analysis is that the simple …
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Central banks have evolved for close to four centuries. This paper argues that for two centuries central banks caught up to the strategies followed by the leading central banks of the era; the Bank of England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the Federal Reserve in the twentieth...
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In this paper we provide empirical measures of central bank credibility and augment these with historical narratives from eleven countries. To the extent we are able to apply reliable institutional information we can also indirectly assess their role in influencing the credibility of the...
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