minimize the length and severity of the recession, would require a stronger commitment to low interest rates for an extended …

We present updated estimates of central bank for 100 countries up through 2006 and use them to analyze both the … been significant movement in the direction of greater central bank transparency in recent years. Transparent monetary …

Greater transparency in central bank operations is the most dramatic change in the conduct of monetary policy in recent … determinants and effects of central bank transparency in an integrated empirical framework. Transparency is greater in countries …

This paper assumes that a central bank commits itself to maintaining an inflation target and then asks what measure of … the inflation rate the central bank should use if it wants to maximize economic stability. The paper first formalizes this … that a central bank that wants to achieve maximum stability of economic activity should use a price index that gives …

the ability of the central bank to alleviate the fiscal burden by influencing different terms in the government resource … seignorage is generated and subject to what constraints, (iii) whether central bank liabilities should count as public debt, (iv …) how central bank assets create income risk, and whether or not this threatens its solvency, and (v) how the central bank …

instrument of monetary policy. We show that by paying an appropriate rate on reserves, the central bank can pin the price level …

via contractions in credit and disruption in financial markets. Managing the size and composition of the central bank …

style of central banking affects central banks' solvency. A central bank is insolvent if its requirement to pay dividends to … Bank), and exchange-rate risk (central banks of small open economies). We find that a central bank that pays dividends … circumstances, the dividend will be negative, meaning that the government is making a payment to the bank. If the charter does not …

What set of institutions can support the activity of a central bank? Designing a central bank requires specifying its … objective function, including the bank's mandate at different horizons and the choice of banker(s), specifying the resource … constraint that limits the resources that the central bank generates, the assets it holds, or the payments on its liabilities …