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central bank credibility is negatively associated with the level of the inflation target, suggesting that less credible …
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macroeconomic environment. We find that central bank credibility is negatively associated with the level of inflation target …
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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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target. To (re-) establish credibility, monetary policy under discretion sets higher interest rates today if average … reflected in an additional term in the central bank's instrument rule, which we refer to as the ”credibility loss.” Augmenting a … and that this influence is economically meaningful. Deterioration in credibility (ceteris paribus) forces central bankers …
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In this paper, we explore the interest rate setting behavior of newly appointed central bank governors. We use the Kuttner and Posen (2010) sample, which covers 15 OECD countries, and estimate an augmented Taylor (1993) rule for the period 1974–2008. We find, first, that newly appointed...
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target. To (re-) establish credibility, monetary policy under discretion sets higher interest rates today if average … reflected in an additional term in the central bank's instrument rule, which we refer to as the "credibility loss." Augmenting a … and that this influence is economically meaningful. Deterioration in credibility (ceteris paribus) forces central bankers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010692011
credibility. …
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Using a model of island economy where financial markets aggregate dispersed information of the public, we analyze how two-way communication between the central bank and the public affects inflation dynamics. When inflation target is observable and credible to the public, markets provide the bank...
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The issue of the financial crisis draws more and more the specialists’ attention. The monetary policy has a decisive role in monitoring and reducing the inflationary phenomenon as much as possible, since it can become a real danger for an economy during a period of crisis. Inflation is a...
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The paper shows the advantages and handicaps of implementing an inflation target (IT) regime, from a Post-Keynesian and, thus, an institutional stance. It is Post-Keynesian as long as it does not perceive any benefit in the mainstream split between monetary and fiscal policies. And it is...
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