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 …

Can the credibility of a stabilization plan affect the output costs of disinflation? The new classical economics has … yield a special credibility bonus? And is the stabilization program sustainable. The answer to both questions is negative …. The idea of a credibility bonus Is an attractive potential policy implication of EMS membership: by joining the EMS …

more foreign-currency debt. We propose that monetary policy credibility explains the currency composition of sovereign debt … and nominal bond risks in the presence of risk-averse investors. In our model, low credibility governments inflate during … inflation, investors require risk premia on nominal debt, making nominal debt issuance costly for low credibility governments …

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 …