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This paper challenges the time-inconsistency case for central bank independence. It argues that the time-inconsistency literature not only seriously confuses the substance of the rules versus discretion debate, but also posits an implausible view of monetary policy. Most worrisome, the...
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abandon fixed exchange rate regimes and to design institutions and monetary policies to achieve credibility in the goal of …
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Much of the experience of the U.S. Federal Reserve System, during the institution’s first hundred years, has revolved around controversies that fit squarely within the classical debate over rules versus discretion in economic policymaking. This paper looks back at the major episodes in this...
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success of this regime may depend critically on the credibility of the target and the expectation that the authorities will … anchoring of expectations is interpreted as a gain in credibility. Also considered are the effects on the credibility of the … anchored over the whole sample period, credibility has risen, but at the same time the cost of breaching the target has grown. …
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flexibility and credibility; similarly, New Zealand's improved inflation performance was achieved without a discernable increase …
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In this paper we address the issue whether a switch to inflation targeting can help build monetary policy credibility …-inflation credibility so far is ambiguous and that this strategy is not clearly superior to intermediate monetary strategies. Copyright …
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This paper surveys the empirical literature assessing the credibility of monetary policy inside an inflation targeting … credibility effects associated with this policy rule. Drawing on the existing literature, we outline a promising direction for … future research, based on an extension of Svensson (1994) “simplest test” of inflation target credibility inside a Bayesian …
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by observing the policy instrument or inflation outcomes. Measuring credibility as the distance between the perceived … target and the actual target, an increase in credibility is beneficial to the central bank because it brings the policy … deviations from target. I then illustrate the impact of other factors on credibility formation, including choice of monetary …
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of the literature concerning inflation targeting credibility and the transmission mechanism of monetary policy through … authority reduces the interest rate and when the credibility increases. The evidence also indicate that the supply of credit is … policy to price stability which increases the credibility of the regime of inflation targeting and promoting macroeconomic …
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attention to the credibility of their monetary policy, particularly during the last decade. The monetary policy credibility in … Serbia has always been a matter of discussion. One of the main indicators of the lack of credibility in Serbia’s monetary … considers the concept of credibility from both the theoretical and practical viewpoint. The advantages of high credibility are …
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