credibility, because of time-inconsistency of the optimal policy under commitment, and (iii) coordination failure, because a …

We revisit the question of what determines the credibility of macroeconomic policies here, of promises to repay public … probability, much conventional wisdom on the determinantes of credibility need no longer hold. For instance, appointing a … conservative policymaker or denominating public debt in foreign currency may reduce, not increase, credibility …

incentive constraints on the policy making process, such as lack of credibility, political opportunism, political ideology, and …: it covers credibility issues, political business cycles, and optimal design of monetary institutions. Part II deals with … fiscal policy in a dynamic general equilibrium set up: the main topics here are credibility of tax policy, and political …

We define and study transparency, credibility, and reputation in a model where the central bank's characteristics are … unobservable to the private sector and are inferred from the policy outcome. A low-credibility bank optimally conducts a more … inflationary policy than a high-credibility bank, in the sense that it induces higher inflation, but a less expansionary policy in …

Continental dollar lost credibility. Depreciation and collapse followed shortly thereafter …

We propose a continuous time model of nominal debt and investigate the role of inflation credibility in the potential … punishment of default. With high inflation credibility, which can be interpreted as joining a monetary union or issuing foreign … currency debt, debt is effectively real. By contrast, with low inflation credibility, sovereign debt is nominal and in a debt …

This paper studies the impact of public audit oversight on financial reporting credibility. We analyze changes in … filings after the new regime. Our results show that public audit oversight can enhance reporting credibility and that this … credibility is priced in capital markets …