Schaumburg, Ernst; Tambalotti, Andrea - EconWPA - 2003
degrees of credibility, in which commitment and discretion become special cases of what we call quasi commitment. The monetary … from commitment accrue at relatively low levels of credibility. In our benchmark calibration, a commitment expected to last … policy authority is assumed to formulate optimal commitment plans, to be tempted to renege on them, and to succumb to this …