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We examine "Forward Guidance Contracts", which make central bankers' utility contingent on the precision of interest-rate forecasts for some time. Such Forward Guidance Contracts are a exible commitment device and can improve economic performance when the economy is stuck in a liquidity trap....
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We introduce a new type of incentive contract for central bankers: inflation forecast contracts, which make central … bankers’ remunerations contingent on the precision of their inflation forecasts. We show that such contracts enable central … bankers to influence inflation expectations more effectively, thus facilitating more successful stabilization of current …
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