Introduction / Charles Goodhart, Daniela Gabor, Ismail Ertürk, and Jakob Vestergaard -- Constraining descretion in bank regulation / Andrew G. Haldane -- Myths and fallacies in the discussion on capital regulation / Anat R. Admati, Peter M. Demarzo, Martin F. Hellwig, and Paul Pfleiderer --...

We study how the optimal degree of conservatism relates to decision-making procedures in a Monetary Policy Committee (MPC). In our framework, central bank conservatism is required to attenuate the volatility of monetary decisions generated by the presence of uncertainty about the committee...