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Several papers study the effect of trust by using the answer to the World Values Survey (WVS) question quot;Generally speaking, would you say that most people can be trusted or that you can't be too careful in dealing with people?quot; to measure the level of trust. Glaeser et al. (2000)...
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credibility EBRS is associated with overheating and current account deficits, IRRs give rise to somewhat opposite results … costs infringed by imperfect credibility …
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governors suffer from a generic credibility problem. Federal Reserve chairman appointments stand out in terms of their unusually …
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The perceptions of a central bank's inflation aversion may reflect institutional structure or, more dynamically, the history of its policy decisions. In this paper, we present a novel empirical framework that uses high frequency data to test for persistent variation in market perceptions of...
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This paper develops a model for valuing options on a currency which is maintained within a band. The starting point of our model is the well known Krugman model for exchange-rate behavior within a target zone. Results from model runs provide insight into evidence reported by other authors of...
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credibility). We then use panel VARs based on both factor models and observed data to ascertain the impact of global shocks …, financial shocks, trade shocks and credibility shocks on the EMEs versus the AEs.We find that although some EMEs did maintain … resilience to shocks and in the quality of their governance. Moreover it appears that CB credibility in EMEs was more fragile …
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This study quantitatively investigates the currency composition of sovereign debt in the presence of two types of limited enforcement frictions arising from a government's monetary and debt policy: strategic currency debasement and default on sovereign debt. Local currency debt obligations are...
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credibility, because of time-inconsistency of the optimal policy under commitment, and (iii) coordination failure, because a …
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A new measure of credibility is constructed as a function of the differential between observed inflation and some … estimate of the inflation rate that the central bank targets. The target is assumed to be met flexibly. Credibility is … credibility and central banks with strong institutional feaures tend to do better when hit by a shock of the magnitude of the 2007 …
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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 standard before 1914 before being lost and not fully regained …
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